Former Texas governor John Bowden Connally, Jr. (1917-1993), political adviser and confidant to both Democratic and Republican presidents and a candidate for the presidency in 1980, helped shape Ameri...
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Gallup polling over the past three decades shows Republican front-runners usually win their party's nomination, but Democrats do not. Some elections:1972-DemocratsFebruary 1971: Edmund Muskie, 26 p...
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Saddam Hussein's voice wafted through a courtroom Wednesday as tapes were played from a 1990 meeting with a former Texas governor and an oilman now accused of paying millions of dollars to Iraqi of...
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President Nixon signed a historic agreement with the Soviet Union in 1972 to ban biological weapons yet also expressed grave misgivings to his closest aides about arms control as a key to peace.In ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt was
sentenced to one year and one day in prison Tuesday for
conspiracy in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal, becoming the most
prominent figure jailed ove...
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We are are now over halfway through the third Bush presidency, the second of two for George W. Bush, which followed two for Bill Clinton, which followed one for George H.W. Bush. Whether...
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Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt Jr. pleaded guilty Monday to a federal conspiracy charge, abruptly ending his trial by admitting he approved a $200,000 payment directly to an Iraqi bank account knowing it...
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As a president and candidate, Gerald R. Ford made being ordinary a political trademark.In the beginning, it was a strength that helped Ford assure voters that the era of Richard Nixon and the corru...
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Former President Gerald R. Ford, who declared "Our long national nightmare is over" as he replaced Richard Nixon but may have doomed his own chances of election by pardoning his disgraced predecess...
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Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon's scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America's history, has died, former first lady Betty Ford said ...
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Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon's scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America's history, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday. He ...
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John Bowden Connally, Jr.
Early Attitudes Glance
