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...keynote came from a Texas Democrat, former speaker of the Texas House Waggoner Carr; he was appropriate for the kickoff-about a hundred Texan Young Americans for Freedom had flown in on a chartered plane. Mr. Carr thanked the assembly for the privilege of speaking to them, introduced his wife Ernestine ("One of the prettiest girls of her age in Texas"), and in a slow, polite, instructor's voice free of most of the drawl that he must have been saving for the folks back home, he delivered quietly phrased exhortations that established one of the recurring themes...
Robert S. Strauss, a wealthy Texan who now heads the Party's fund-raising efforts, wants Gailbraith removed from the Party's Policy Council...
Robert S. Strauss, a wealthy Texan who now heads the Party's fund-raising efforts, wants Galbraith removed from the Party's Policy Counsel...
...Edward H. Harte, 47, is a rich, urbane Texan who got "my big awakening" majoring in philosophy at Dartmouth. Today he is co-owner of the $27 million Harte-Hanks newspaper chain, publisher of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times (circ. 107,000) and the most liberal press tycoon in Texas. A key cause of that superlative is his son Chris, 22, a political science major at Stanford, who has taught Harte to "admire the gutsiness of this generation...
...shocked. I hung up." Chris persisted with dozens more antiwar calls from college, where he was managing editor of the Stanford Daily. "He took an almost Toynbee-esque line about the U.S.'s moral bankruptcy," says Harte, who stoutly resisted partly out of respect for his fellow Texan, Lyndon Johnson. "But finally my son got through to me. I realized that I didn't understand this war or believe that it was serving the nation's vital interests." So Harte did a hard thing in hawkish Texas: he openly opposed U.S. policies in Viet Nam, and even supported Eugene McCarthy...