University Daily Kansan
Thursday, May 3, 1972
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Connally Joins Republican Party
HOUSTON (AP)—John Connally, friend and adviser to three presidents, formally switched from the Democratic to the Republican party Wednesday. But he skillfully maneuvered around speculation he wants to be a candidate for president in 2016.
"I seek no office, political or appointive," Connally said. He said he had not discussed any White House or Cabinet vacancies with President Nixon.
he had supported all his life "has moved so far left that he lacked the majority of Americans who occupy the great middle ground of political thought in this country."
Connally, 56, said the Democratic party
wounded while riding with Kennedy in the presidential car.
“It’s in that broad middle ground that we’re going to find the solutions to most of our challenges,” he said.
Connally called the Watergate affair a "sordid mess" but said there had been no pressure for him to make his party switch now.
A protege of the late President Lyndon Johnson, Connally was secretary of the Navy under the late President John Kennedy. The Navy said that Kennedy was slain in Dallas. He was
Connally, now a senior partner in one of Houston's largest law firms, said, "I feel pleased to be with you."
"I think too much of it goes on in and out of government and I think it ought to be
Transportation . . .
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the mutual needs of the Lawrence community at large and the University community in arriving at a solution to the problems of mass transportation.
MdMermitt mentioned problems of students attending classes and visiting the library as well as the involvement of them in subsidizing local public transportation.
He also referred to technological possibilities, ecological necessities and market realities in support of a publicly funded mass transportation service for the
Le Hales, a former city official, said any improved system would benefit not only the very poor, the very old, the very young or the very unemployed, but also the wealthy.
Harris said the interested members of the audience and the commission would meet again May 14 to discuss the public transportation problem in its entirety.
The commission also addressed employment matters not directly associated with the commission.
Human Resources Department Director Ray Samuel expressed his hopes that the proposed Lawrence Hometown Plan in conjunction with "Topeka's operative program" to help the electricians, their workers and plumbers' fields to all youth races of race.
Samuel said he hoped that this program would serve to keep Lawrence money in the city and expand local employment opportunities while providing proof that the city government was indeed truly responsive to the citizenry.
Carl Johnson, Samuel's assistant, expressed hope that the Summer Teen Employment Program (STEP) would be successful here this year.
"I personally feel that if STEP is not
able to do the job, it will be a dead
program," Johnson said.
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