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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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