Word: hillings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Connally's first advice when Johnson became President was that he should set about ridding his Administration of Kennedy loyalists. Said he: "They think you're a hillbilly, a hillbilly from the hill country, and they'll never accept you." When he pressed the advice, Johnson only stared at him coldly. Connally never followed Johnson's tactic of trying to win the love of his enemies. In retrospect he says: "They made his life miserable. He wasted four years trying to win them over...
...reduction in the $2.7 billion in military aid already committed to Israel as a way to browbeat Jerusalem into ceasing its artillery attacks in Lebanon. Said one State Department official: "We don't want to be the ones to carry an arms reduction proposal up to Capitol Hill...
Late this July, the then unrepentent company went to Capitol Hill with the crafty smugness of overconfidence. Its representatives intended to shake down the United States Congress for a fast billion...
...HILL, there was substantial sympathy for some form of aid. Worried about jobs and competition in the auto industry, some liberals saw the Chrysler failure as an opportunity for the government to take control of a major auto corporation, which could be used to keep the other companies honest. Some, like Sen. Don Riegle (D-Mich.), who has more than 85,000 constituents employed by Chrysler, were just plainworried by the prospect of a rash of plant closings...
...been a target of community opposition since the fall of 1977, when Observatory Hill residents petitioned to delay construction of the center. Construction began in September...