Word: governors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spring of 1968. In the process, the Congressmen discredited the persistent theory that Ray did not act alone. Last week the committee turned to the Kennedy assassination and added credence to the main finding of the Warren Commission: Lee Harvey Oswald alone killed the President and wounded former Texas Governor John Connally...
Connally has been part of more of our history than we sometimes realize. He tried to get Lyndon Johnson the nomination in 1960. Failing that, he joined the Kennedy Administration as Secretary of the Navy. He was a good one. Then he went back to become Governor of Texas. In his first year came Dallas, and later Richard Nixon, the man who was mesmerized by Connally. He became Secretary of the Treasury, but Nixon tantalized him with the vision of being his Vice President and finally moving into the Republican mainstream and the presidency. That is the kind of wide...
Where was the Governor bound...
That policymakers are being even so tepidly tempted constitutes an intellectual victory for Federal Reserve Governor Henry Wallich, who has been pushing TIP through nearly eight years of debate in obscure economic journals. His basic idea, elaborated in cooperation with University of Pennsylvania Economist Sidney Weintraub, is to set a guideline for wage and benefit increases-about 5% a year in Wallich's latest version-and slap a penalty tax on any company that raised pay as much as 1% more. In his view, that would force employers to hold down wages, and prices would automatically follow...
Today Willie has become not only an Austin but a Texas institution. He has performed with the Dallas Symphony and golfed with the then Texas Longhorns Coach Darrell Royal. Around the state he sees T shirts reading MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE AND WILLIE. He hears his name lightly mentioned for Governor. His father and stepmother-universally known as Mom and Pop Nelson-bask in the legend. Together they run Willie's Pool Hall in Austin, and Pop fronts a country band. Nowadays Mom and Pop also occupy Willie's $300,000 ranch house outside town. Willie's third...