Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actions on behalf of the milk producers are considered by his critics an illustration of his view of corporate interests. Says one Texas politician who has followed Connally closely: "The real danger in the milk fund case is the manipulation of Government policy to fit business interests, encouraging Nixon to raise milk support prices to extract political money." Says former Texas Observer Publisher Ronnie Dugger, a longtime Connally critic: "Corporate interests and Government interests? They're all the same to him." Another Texas political foe asks, "Can you imagine Connally's administration going after some big corporation that was behaving...
Connally campaigned in Texas for Humphrey in that 1968 campaign, but he first played the other side, helping Nixon raise money from some of his state's oil and gas millionaires. Nixon reciprocated by asking him to be Secretary of Defense and later Secretary of the Treasury. Both offers Connally refused, preferring his lucrative Texas law practice (his income averages nearly $500,000 per year). But in December 1970, when the Treasury post was offered again, Connally accepted. Nixon cared relatively little for economics, and he was in awe of Connally's self-assurance, so he gave the Treasury Secretary...
...Administration's unsuccessful wage and price controls, a policy he now says was mistaken. Not one content to be minding only his own business, he gave Nixon advice on a broad range of issues, stepping on the toes of a few Cabinet colleagues and Nixon advisers. When he left after 15 months, partly in frustration with the President's protective staff, Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson said, "The State Department is having a going-away party; it's now in its 32nd hour." Says New York Financier Felix Rohatyn: "I think he has a rather confrontationist attitude. I don't think...
Connally headed the Democrats for Nixon in 1972 and returned to Washington during the Watergate crisis for 2% months as a presidential adviser. But it was not until 1973, soon after the death of the Texas politician who first brought him to Washington, that he finally switched parties. One political confidant says Connally joined the Cabinet and later became a Republican because Nixon had promised to help him become President. Muses Connally: "Nixon said a lot of things to me. He told me he'd never make Kissinger Secretary of State. I knew what to believe and what...
...case that continues to haunt John Connally-despite his acquittal-was a complex web of accusations. Watergate prosecutors investigating President Nixon's campaign finances began to concentrate in October of 1973 on donations by dairymen. By August of 1974, the Government had amassed enough evidence to win a Washington grand jury indictment charging Connally on five counts for having allegedly accepted $10,000 from Associated Milk Producers, Inc., the nation's largest dairy cooperative...