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A LONG, LONG TRAIL to safety is followed by these refugees fleeing the Quang
Tri battle in South Vietnam. It appears that mama shoulders the heaviest but most
precious load.
What’s Connally’s future?
By RAY McHUGH
Chief, Washington Bureau
Copley News Service
WASHINGTON — Mention
the name of Treasury Secre
tary John Bowden Connally Jr.
along the oh-so-correct corri
dors of the International Mone
tary Fund and you’ll provoke a
quizzical, somewhat pained
look.
After 17 months of dealing
with President Nixon’s top fi
nancial officer, world bankers
have yet to adjust to his Texas
style, the swiftly alternating
smiles and scowls and the tac
tics of an Austin poker table
where a man had better be able
to count his cards, his chips and
his bourbons.
Mention Connally’s name to
leaders of the Democratic and
Republican parties and the re
action isn’t much different.
The Democrats adopt that “I
wish - John - wasn’t - working -
for- that - fellow - Nixon” look.
Republicans wear that “you -
don’t - suppose - the - President
- really - plans - to - make - him -
a- Republican, - do - you?” ex
pression.
For 17 months, the dapper,
handsome former Texas gover
nor and protege (or whipping
boy) of Lyndon Johnson has
kept everyone guessing and
frequently gasping.
At the IMF, bankers still talk
in almost reverent tones of the
blunt tongue-lashing Connally
gave French Finance Minister
Giscard d’Estaing at last fall’s
meeting. The tone was polite,
there were no personal or na
tional references, but when
Connally sat down, the French
minister’s criticism of U.S.
policies was in tatters. The
world bankers had been force
fully reminded that even a
sputtering Americar economy
was powerful enough to deal
crushing Mows to any nations
foolish enough to engage in un
bridled trade and monetary
discrimination.
Connally also has not hesi
tated to remind his peers in
Western Europe and Japan
that it was American dollars
that put their countries on their
feet after World War II and
built the prosperity they enjoy.
The son of a poor Texas
butcher-farmer, Connally
worked his way through the
University of Texas Law School
and married the famous beau
ty queen. He has had little ex-
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perience in banking and inter
national finance. Yet, under
President Nixon he has pre
sided over an unprecedented
series of major decisions:
1. A readjustment of interna
tional exchange rates.
2. A devaluation of the dollar.
3. The opening rounds of in
ternational financial talks to
replace the Bretton Woods
agreement of the mid-forties
that was a world finance bible
for 25 years.
4. The Aug. 15, 1971, wage
price freeze.
5. The chairmanship of the
President’s Cost of Living
Council.
He has been the spokesman
for the new Nixon economic
policy with its Phase I freeze,
its Phase II wage-price guide
lines and a still-awaited long
range Phase HI program.
Not since George Humphrey,
President Dwight D. Eisen
hower's tough-talking secre
tary, has the No. 1 man at
Treasury made such headlines.
Inevitably, his new promi
nence, his western background,
his pragmatic conservative po
litical reputation, his close
association with powerful oil
and natural gas interests, his
friendship with both President
Nixon and former President
Johnson have sparked political
speculation.
In late 1971, when Connally
seemed to dominate television
screens and front page head
lines every day, there was con
jecture in Washington that Mr.
Nixon might pick him to re
place Vice President Spiro Ag
new on the 1972 Republican
ticket. The President has
spiked these rumors.
But at 54, Connally already
looms large in both parties’
back-room discussions about
1976. Should President Nixon
win reelection, the three-term
governor would have backers
among Democrats and Repub
licans. His presence in the
Nixon Cabinet could be a deci
sive factor in wining Texas for
the Republicans this fall. His
speeches on behalf of Hubert
Humphrey in 1968 are credited
with tipping that close race in
favor of the Democrats.
In 1970, Connally engineered
the primary election defeat of
liberal Sen. Ralph Yarborough,
an old enemy, and then helped
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen defeat Re
publican George Bush, who is
now ambassador to the United
Nations.
Connally first tasted politics
in 1937 when he worked to elect
Lyndon Johnson to the House.
He came to Washington as
Johnson’s personal secretary
breifly in 1939 and forged a
friendship and alliance that has
endured for more than 30
years. He placed Johnson’s
name in nomination for the
presidency in 1960 and 1964. At
the turbulent 1968 Democratic
convention in Chicago, it was
Connally who faced the rebel
lious delegates and defended
Johnson’s Vietnam policies.
From 1949 to 1952, he served
as an assistant to Johnson, who
was then a senator. He later re
turned to Texas but in 1961,
President John F. Kennedy, at
Johnson’s urging, named Con
nally secretary of the Navy.
(He was a naval officer during
World War n and was deco
rated twice for directing air
strikes from the carrier Es
sex.)
He was elected governor of
Texas in 1962 and reelected in
1964 and 1966. In 1968, he left the
Texas governor’s mansion for a
prestigious Houston law office
and directorships in a half
dozen major banks and corpo
rations.
He was riding in the car with
President Kennedy when the
president was assassinated in
Dallas in 1963. One of Lee Har
vey Oswald’s bullets struck the
governor and he was hospi
talized for several months.
No secretary of the Treasury
has ever achieved the vice
presidency, much less the
White House. Few have even
won mention in history books.
Chalmers Roberts, the veteran
Washington Post political writ
er, cites Alexander Hamilton,
Roger B. Taney, Salmon P.
Chase and Fred M. Vinson. The
last three became chief justices
of the United States.
It would be hard to add to
Roberts’ list.
Connally, however, is not a
man easily bound by prece
dents.
As Rep. Olin Teague, D-Tex.,
once observed:
“If there’s away to the top,
John will find it.”
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
The guy with no get-up in
the morning will soon have
all day to sleep.
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Very few troubles are
gotten rid of by telling
them to others.
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Most men owe their
wives a lot—two days before
pay day.
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We’re quicker on the
draw at the bank than
any Old West badman
ever was.
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Smart young folk join
teen-age clubs. Stupid ones
use ’em.
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Today, about all you
can’t get on time is the
money to pay the install
ments.
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Girls —one way to shut-up
a flatterer is to marry him.
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Mixed drinks are much
less trouble than mixed
drunks.
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High blood, birth control links studied
By CHARLES S. TAYLOR
ATLANTA (UPI) - High
blood pressure is not as serious
a problem for women who take
birth control pills as was once
thought, according to an Emory
University physician who has
made an extensive study the
last year.
Dr. W. Dallas Hall reported
to a family planning conference
Wednesday however, that of the
women in the 212-member test
group who had had “border
line” hypertension before par
ticipating in the study, 33 per
cent developed high blood pres
sure.
Hall said the women were
divided into two nearly equal
groups, with one using an in
trauterine device to serve as a
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control group. They developed
no high blood pressure, he said,
while in the group taking the
pill, less than two per cent de
veloped hypertension.
He said hypertension was first
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of the pill, with some studies
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18 per cent.
Those who participated in the
study, 96 per cent of whom
were black, were out-patients
at Grady Memorial Hospital
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twenties, was the most exten
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Hall worked with Dr. Robert
A. Hatcher, director of the
Emory University Family Plan
ning Program, and Margaret
Douglas, a research technician.
Much of the work was financed
with a teaching and research
scholarship given to Hall by the
American College of Physicians.
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to the “Family Planning in the
South” conference that 10 per
cent of the 212 young women in
the test group were found to
have a degree of high blood
pressure, which he said was
“certainly unusual” for women
that age.
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STAPLETON, England (UPI)
—The tax man refused rasber
ries from John Forster Wednes
day.
The 33-year-old farmer owes
$104.40 in corporation taxes and
when a representative of Inland
Revenue called at his farm,
Forster offered him 40 pounds
tension in women who recently
gave birth. Oral contraceptive
therapy in these patients is at
tended by a 33 per cent risk of
developing high blood pressure.
“Women with mild hyperten
sion should therefore seek alter
native but effective contracep
tive programs.”
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The bailiff declined the offer
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CHICHESTER, England
(UPl)—Yachtman David Wallis
found an old, corroded flare on
his boat and decided to fire it
off in his back garden, not
expecting it to work.
But it did—and police,
firemen and four ambulances
responded Wednesday, thinking
there had been a major
disaster. Wallis said he would
write a letter to the county’s
chief constable apologizing.