Word: texan
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...ranks with Ted Kennedy as one of the two best stump speakers in America. He's in control of his emotions, and he never appears off-balance." A former assistant managing editor of LIFE, Ajemian has been covering presidential candidates since 1956, and reported extensively on the Texan for TIME three years ago. For this week's cover story, Ajemian shadowed three Connallys nonstop for a week: he rode with the leather-lunged campaigner on a four-states-in-four-days fund-raising sweep; he weekended with the ten-gallon-hatted, boots-and-khaki cattle rancher...
...result, according to the latest findings of a survey completed Aug. 24 for TIME by the opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly & White Inc. is that for the first time Republican Ronald Reagan is running ahead of Carter as the choice for President. Texan John Connally, though still only the fourth choice of Republicans and independents for the G.O.P. nomination, has closed the gap with Carter, and now trails the President by only four percentage points. Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker finishes in a dead heat with Carter. Both Baker and Reagan would defeat Carter among Southern Protestants...
...openly. "There are still a lot of myths about me," Connally told TIME Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian. "I've got to clear them up." But his ability to excite crowds and raise money causes many political experts to believe that if he can surmount those "myths," the tall Texan is the most formidable Republican challenger for the presidency. Richard Nixon himself phones occasionally to offer encouragement and to predict the polls will change...
...prepared text, he ticks off facts and figures, developing his arguments lucidly and engaging his listeners with a tone of careful sincerity. He is always controlled, raising his voice only for emphasis. Yet he comes across as a vibrant orator, striking an emphatic rhythm like an oldtime Democrat. His Texan images are simple but colorful: the stubborn steer, the weak-kneed politician, the businessman cowering in fear of the Government. Connally has the earthiness of a backland tenant farmer's son and the urbanity of a successful international financier. He is clever enough to be self-deprecating at times...
Strauss showed from the start that he would tolerate no mistreatment from State. In the beginning officials snubbed him, neglected to invite him to key meetings and several times actually tried to alter his outgoing cables to Begin and Sadat. A couple of months ago, the Texan was not included in a meeting with Egyptian Vice President Husny Mubarak. This infuriated the short-fused Strauss. He called one of Vance's deputies and blasted State, saying the next time he would take the issue right to Carter. "Strauss is in business for himself," said a top State Department official...