Word: texan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...additional six months, through June. Connally, it seems, never had any intention of remaining at his post through the election. He said, "This is just a place to have an office," and scarcely hid his growing disdain for fiscal details. Nellie Connally recently whispered to a visiting Texan friend in a Washington reception line: "We're coming home soon." Says one associate: "John is a master at political timing. He's getting out before his enemies in Washington begin cutting...
...Texan Larry McMurtry is much better known for the movies made from his fiction than for the books themselves. His first novel. Horseman, Pass By, became Hud; his third was The Last Picture Show...
...words, "a sort of bullyboy on the manicured playing fields of international finance." That puts it mildly. The Treasury Secretary's frequent advice in White House strategy sessions on how to deal with an adversary is "Let's kick him in the nuts." But the wavy-haired Texan also knows how to turn thoughtful money diplomat when he cannot avoid it, and last week he veered again in that direction...
...with Larry O'Brien. I will go anywhere to work for a Republican woman running for office-or if it would help more, I would not go." While the caucus has its share of familiar liberationists like Betty Friedan, it also includes Liz Carpenter, the tart-tongued Texan who used to be Lady Bird Johnson's press secretary; Businesswoman Virginia Allan, who served as chairman of President Nixon's task force on women's rights; and former Republican National Committeewoman Elly Peterson, her party's candidate for Michigan Senator eight years ago. The members...
Died. Edwin Weisl, 74. longtime confidant of Lyndon Johnson; of a heart attack; in West Los Angeles, Calif. An up-from-the-tenements Wall Street lawyer with an earthy demeanor, Weisl first met Johnson at the urging of F.D.R.. who described the lanky Texan as "a live Congressman [with] a fine future ahead of him." Thereafter Weisl helped fulfill Roosevelt's prophecy, advising the Texas Democrat on politics both foreign and domestic for more than 30 years. In 1964, Weisl became Democratic national committeeman from New York, and was considered L.B.J.'s envoy to the state party...