Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just departed 98th Congress say they intend to remain in Washington to work in or around the Government. The most conspicuously well rewarded will almost certainly be former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, who will earn about a million dollars this year, principally as a representative of a Houston law firm, Vinson & Elkins...
...easygoing good ole boy. Trim, handsome and carefully dressed, he can exude the effortless charm of a man comfortable with wealth and power even as he chews a wad of Red Man tobacco, spitting the juice into a paper cup. A well-educated scion of a prominent line of Houston attorneys, he enjoys fishing with his buddies in the waters of Matagorda Bay and hunting wild turkey on his land near San Antonio. He is a managerial mastermind who relaxes by watching pro football games and listening to Tammy Wynette records...
Oddly enough, Baker was raised to believe that politics is a morally repugnant business. The family law firm, Baker & Botts, which his great- grandfather joined in 1872, was the largest, most prestigious in Houston. Like his father, Baker was educated at the Hill School in Pennsylvania and Princeton, then earned a law degree at the University of Texas, Austin. Because of antinepotism rules at Baker & Botts, he joined Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones to practice corporate law in 1957. Baker, like most Houston aristocrats of that era, was a conservative Democrat. While his father and grandfather had denigrated politics...
...over the death of his first wife that year, Baker was eager to try something new, so he accepted Bush's offer to run the Harris County campaign. Bush lost, but Baker proved to be a talented tactician, delivering 61% of the votes cast in the county, which includes Houston. Baker would say later that the campaign made him "absolutely, totally, pure Republican." He went on to work on President Nixon's re-election campaign, served briefly as Under Secretary of Commerce in the Ford Administration and in 1976 helped Ford defeat Reagan for the Republican nomination. As Ford...
...case you're wondering, the RPI-Harvard showdown is scheduled for February 23 at Houston Field House in Troy, N.Y. A packed Houston house of 5600 should welcome Harvard at the league's largest rink...