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Ronald Reagan ranked second with figures of 40% and 18%. Connally, usually regarded by politicians as a man who projects a very strong image as a leader, has apparently not yet impressed the public...
...down, so I can't be accused of opportunism." He sometimes adds a footnote, that if lifelong Republicanism is a litmus test, then Reagan, who was a Democrat until 1962, must also be disqualified. 3) The White House tapes. When the existence of the White House tapes became public knowledge, Connally's aggressive advice to his friend Nixon was to destroy them quickly. "Call in a group of witnesses, make sure it's in the open, but burn them," he proposed. Nixon declined the advice, and lost his presidency...
Connally first publicly broke with his political godfather when he openly opposed Johnson's Public Accommodations Law, which outlawed racial discrimination in hotels, restaurants and other public places. He also refused to spend some of Johnson's pet poverty program funds allocated to Texas. The wires between the White House and the Austin statehouse hummed. Johnson at one point badly needed Connally's support for a project but the Governor would not talk to him; the President phoned a startled Congressman Gonzalez at midnight and asked him to persuade the prodigal proteg?...
...witnesses turned up last week. One, a show business public relations agent named Barry Landau, provided the first corroboration of part of the story - though not the crucial part - told by lawyers for Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, two own ers of the celebrated disco. They are under indictment for tax evasion, and Schrager has also been charged with possession of cocaine. The White House has accused them of concocting false charges against Jordan in order to bargain for leniency. Landau, who said he had met Jordan at various receptions and dinners, has no such obvious ax to grind, though...
...indignant legislators insisted that they had worked at the conference, but the taxpayers remained unmoved. Said a spokesman: "We want standards established to protect taxpayers from paying for extravagant trips. It's time the public put its foot down...