Word: texan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, I met a couple of important Harvard types. There was the wealthy, fantastic tennis player who left his mind behind on the team bus one day. There was an up-and-coming Texan capitalist--the counter-cultural kind who dresses down to rip you off. He pats your back with one hand, picks your pocket with the other. There was also the budding urban pol. He was one of the nicest but most difficult to live with. To see yourself as a future bureaucrat, a part of you has to have died a bit early in life...
...dollar is overseas, urging productivity councils, a flexible investment tax credit, spending cuts. Percy got it all out, and driving back to the Hill with G.O.P. Chairman George Bush, he felt better. So did Congressman Les Arends, who reported on the problems of farmers from his Illinois district. Texan John Tower thumped for the need to increase beef production. New Hampshire's Norris Cotton told the story of how a farmer drove 100 miles to talk to him because he thought Cotton was close to Nixon and could deliver the message. Well, now he could. We once paid farmers...
...jutting jaw, broad shoulders and close-cropped hair conveying an unmistakable aura of power, John Connally strode into the White House briefing room last week to hold a press conference. But appearances were somewhat deceiving. The tall Texan was there to confess to a loss of power at the White House. After a mere six weeks as President Nixon's adviser, he announced he was planning to resign some time in the summer and go off on a long-deferred trip around the world...
...want any more than what Ah have." Which is just as well. After five hours of rough hold 'em, Slim was busted by Jack "Tree Tops" Strauss, another tall Texan, in a $9,000 pot. At week's end, Strauss and five other survivors were battling for Slim's title-and the total bank...
...annual lunch of the Associated Press in Manhattan. He then explained why the flattering introduction by A.P. Chairman Paul Miller gave him pause. It seems that in the early winter of 1968, President-elect Nixon and Kissinger had paid a visit to L.B.J. The larger-than-life Texan offered a bit of advice on how to ferret out the tattletales of state secrets. "If you want to find out where the leakage is," Johnson said, "listen to newsmen talking. Find out who it is they talk about as being 'bright,' 'intelligent,' 'profound'-and fire...