Run First
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Chapter Fourteen
"I am afraid that, while we've worked hard, it's time to end our campaign."
-Bob Dole (1980)
"After New Hampshire, South Carolina became too important. Connally understood that if he were to lose in the first Southern primary, then he might as well have conceded to Buckley."
-Andrew Marr (2009)
"So the Connally people decided to campaign regionally: in places like Charleston or Cornelius, he'd campaign with Strom Thurmond-but in places like Columbia or North Charleston, he'd campaign on his civil rights record as Governor. They simply needed a victory-and any victory was a strong victory by that point."
-David Brinkley (2002)
-Bob Dole (1980)
"After New Hampshire, South Carolina became too important. Connally understood that if he were to lose in the first Southern primary, then he might as well have conceded to Buckley."
-Andrew Marr (2009)
"So the Connally people decided to campaign regionally: in places like Charleston or Cornelius, he'd campaign with Strom Thurmond-but in places like Columbia or North Charleston, he'd campaign on his civil rights record as Governor. They simply needed a victory-and any victory was a strong victory by that point."
-David Brinkley (2002)
Chapter Fifteen
"The campaign was always ugly- but I think that when it came to personal, if not political, survival, it was in South Carolina that both my brother, perhaps Mr Connally as well, faced the true examination."
-William F Buckley (1986)
"I don't think Jim Buckley realizes how bad it is out here-I don't think he realizes what it means when unemployment rises by more than one percent in just half a year, and it doesn't look like it's stopping. So maybe it's better to have someone who does know how bad it is-someone who ran a State, someone who ran the Navy, someone who ran our national Treasury, to take charge. We elected someone who said that experience wasn't as important, and look at this country now."
-John Connally (1980)
"It was John Connally who pulled us out of a perfectly functioning monetary standard to save the value of the dollar-and since then the value of the dollar's been falling. It was John Connally who froze Americans' salaries and wages and prices, and it only deepened the wound on our economy. I don't think that his ideas for the economy are what's good for the economy."
-James Buckley (1980)
-William F Buckley (1986)
"I don't think Jim Buckley realizes how bad it is out here-I don't think he realizes what it means when unemployment rises by more than one percent in just half a year, and it doesn't look like it's stopping. So maybe it's better to have someone who does know how bad it is-someone who ran a State, someone who ran the Navy, someone who ran our national Treasury, to take charge. We elected someone who said that experience wasn't as important, and look at this country now."
-John Connally (1980)
"It was John Connally who pulled us out of a perfectly functioning monetary standard to save the value of the dollar-and since then the value of the dollar's been falling. It was John Connally who froze Americans' salaries and wages and prices, and it only deepened the wound on our economy. I don't think that his ideas for the economy are what's good for the economy."
-James Buckley (1980)