Word: persons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helped little by his busy summer efforts to shore up his Administration and to project a more decisive image as a national leader. More than a third of those polled thought that Carter has lately shown more leadership than in the past, but his trouble persists. Only one person in ten expressed any confidence in Carter's ability to deal with the economy. Only 13% could say that they had a lot of confidence that he could handle the energy problem. Just one in ten said he was competent enough to appoint the right people to office. The naming...
...workers and the poor. Symbolic, they say, was his confrontation with farm workers who were on a 64-day, 468-mile march to Austin in the summer of 1966 to seek a $1.25 minimum wage. Governor Connally drove out to them in his limousine to tell them in person that he was absolutely opposed to their demands and would not meet them in his office. Nevertheless, more than 6,000 marchers did converge on Austin on Labor Day, and Connally was out of town. Says San Antonio Congressman Henry Gonzalez: "I don't think he has the temperament to care...
...their feuds were family quarrels; they remained cronies through it all. In October 1967 George Christian called upon Connally in Texas and told him that Johnson had secretly decided not to run for another term. Lady Bird Johnson was the only other person to know. They prepared a draft of a withdrawal announcement for the January 1968 State of the Union message, but Connally thought the timing was inappropriate and Johnson held back. When the announcement came in March, Johnson confided immediately to Connally that he regretted the move, and continued to look for ways to retain his office...
...told Mark the doorman that he wanted to see the basement. There were about a dozen people in the basement at the time and four have come forth and said that they saw him: Mark was one, Johnny C. was another, I was one and another witness-a party person who had been connected with the Ford White House, a protocol type." Had anyone actually seen Jordan snort cocaine? "Johnny C. was the one who turned him on, and I saw him take a hit in each nostril. It was next to the pinball machines...
...outtake from Creature from the Black Lagoon: a lone figure stumbles from the water covered in yellow guck and with a swollen eye. Except that there were hundreds of spectators on the beach, and they cheered when Diana Nyad came ashore last week in Jupiter, Fla., the first person ever to swim from the Bahamas to the U.S. "I feel like the F train in New York just ran over me, but emotionally I'm exhilarated," exulted Nyad between sips of champagne and whiffs of oxygen. The marathoner attempted the feat three weeks ago, but gave up after being...