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Hochmuth was also the first American general officer to lose his life in Viet Nam. (Air Force Major General William Crumm was killed last July in a B-52 collision over the South China Sea.) A lean, laconic Texan who delighted in raising both flowers and barbells, Hochmuth led the 3rd Marines through the heavy spring and summer fighting around Khe Sanh, Con Thien and Cam Lo on the lacerated lower lip of the Demilitarized Zone. With his forces spread thin over two entire provinces, "Curly" Hochmuth (so known for his bald head) fought a dogged, essentially defensive...
...farther, and see less, than anywhere else on earth, John Nance Garner carved a hefty fiefdom along the Rio Grande and parlayed his brand of conservative populism (with due regard for the interests of cattle, oil and Democratic regularity) into 46 years of power. His political personality was quintessentially Texan: grass-rooted, plainspoken, coyote-cunning, and he set a style of congressional clout that made him perhaps the most influential Vice President in U.S. history...
...work to remedy the defects at hand; as editor of the campus paper, the Daily Texan, he crusaded against the state's sacrosanct oil-and-gas industry, berating it for taking too much out of the state and putting too little back in. In the uproar that ensued, complete with suppression of his editorials, Willie became something of a local celebrity...
...they forced a committee vote on a measure that would limit spending during the current fiscal year to $131.5 billion-$5 billion less than the President's administrative budget estimate -with nonmilitary programs bearing the burden of the cut. Appropriations Chairman George Mahon, a Johnson supporter and fellow Texan, managed to defeat the measure in committee...
...East for a running mate, and that his gaze perhaps will fall on Rhode Island. But even where the vice-presidency is concerned, being from a small state can hurt. The man in the second spot is supposed to strengthen the ticket by assuring victory in his state, as Texan Lyndon Johnson did in 1960, and thus the bigger the state, the more statesmanlike the vice-presidential candidate...