THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: He'll Let Us Know

The Presidency

What must have been going through that handsome head as John Connally sat in the Cannon Office Building last week remembering the murder of John Kennedy? So many memories and regrets. So near for so many years to the power he sought, yet still so far away. Sitting there in the very building where he had first entered national politics 39 years ago as an aide to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. A President still in search of portfolio.

It must have been a heartache of many kinds. There was the horror of the assassination, of course, and the memory of his...

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