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June 28, 1993: Died:John Connally
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Jun. 28, 1993 Fatherhood
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 29
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<p> DIED. JOHN CONNALLY, 76, former Texas Governor and U.S. Treasury
Secretary; in Houston. Connally's career was intertwined with
that of three American Presidents, but his greatest influence
and patron was Lyndon Baines Johnson. By 1939 Connally was working
on early Johnson campaigns and running the fellow Texan's congressional
office. As tough as his boss, Connally played a key role in
Johnson's brutal 1948 Senate race. He was named John Kennedy's
Secretary of the Navy before running for Governor of Texas in
1962. In November of the following year, Connally was riding
through Dallas with Kennedy when the President was shot; Connally
was seriously wounded. He served as a popular Governor until
1969, and in 1971 Richard Nixon appointed him Secretary of the
Treasury, where his tenure was notable for the un-Republican
decisions to take America off the gold standard and impose wage-and-price
controls. After he became a Republican, in 1973, Connally's
political career ended with the 1980 G.O.P. presidential primaries,
during which he spent more than $11 million but managed to win
only a single delegate. After some remarkable initial success
in Texas real estate, oil and other businesses in the early
'80s, Connally found himself overleveraged and declared personal
bankruptcy in 1988. Homes, horses and possessions were sold
off to settle a $93 million debt. (See story page 44.)
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