Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will put "a class act back into the White House," and in public settings the ex-Governor looks like he believes he will do just that. He speaks loudly and radiates force, but there is still a certain charm. The often scowling, sometimes fearsome product of the Texas oilman tradition declares that he always says what he thinks. "Anybody who thinks oil refineries are a greater threat than Communism must have something wrong with him," says Connally, and his conservative businessmen-backers smile...
...over the world. They range from young couples like Robert and Zelma Long, who are starting out with 14 acres in the Napa Valley, to conglomerates like Heublein and France's eminent Moet-Hennessy; from old estates like Beaulieu to newcomers like Thomas Nicholas Jordan Jr., a Denver oilman who has spent close to $15 million to build a Bordeaux-style chateau in Sonoma County-and has yet to sell a bottle of wine...