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Presidential Handwriting, 3/31/1975” of the Presidential Handwriting File at the Gerald R The original documents are located in Box C17, folder “Presidential Handwriting, 3/31/1975” of the Presidential Handwriting File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Copyright Notice The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Gerald Ford donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections. Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid copyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. ~--------------------- 'IREA TED--- AS HANDWRITING -NO BLUE CARD MADE-: Digitized from Box C17 of The Presidential Handwriting File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library • by AI Reinert The jury in John Connally's trial had been the only silent players on the courtroom stage. Now, while everyone else waited, they would talk. March 23, 1971, in the Oval Office going to have to move, urn, strong in tinue to pay the difference between of the White House. A meeting is about the Midwest. You're going to have to be what, the $4.66 and the, and the $4.92. to begin. There are eight men present, strong in rural America, and particular­ ... I'm addressing myself to the narrow including President Nixon, John Ehr­ ly that part of the country. Now, there aspects, to the political aspects of it. I lichman, Budget Director George are a lot of things that you can't do, uh, don't think there's a better organiza­ Shultz, Agriculture Secretary Clifford with respect to farmers. They're almost tion in the United States. If you can get Hardin, and Treasury Secretary John beyond help at this point. They feel like it, you can't get more help from, that Connally. Here is an edited transcript of they are. They don't feel like anybody's will be, urn, be more loyal to you. And, that meeting. trying to help them. I just don't and I think they've got a worthy case know many areas that you can do many to begin with. And that being true, I PRESIDENT: I suggest that we sit things-that's the net of what I'm say­ just think you ought to stretch the point. over here everybody. More room and, ing- to help the farmers, uh, and the I wouldn't wait till next year, so that­ uh [coughing]-Sit down. dairy people now. These dairymen are I know that there's been some advice * * * organized; they're adamant; they're given to you, to wait till next year-I PRESIDENT: Uh, well, we ought to militant. This particular group, AMPI, will differ with that, simply because review this, this situation with regard which is the American Milk Producers they're going to make their association to milk. Now, uh, John, would you ex­ Institute or something, represents about and their alliances this year and they're press your views to us all- you ex­ forty thousand people.... They're ask­ going to spend a lot of money this year pressed them to me this morning. ing for, for an increase in the cost, in in various Congressional and Senatorial CONNALLY: Uh, I'm not trying to the price of a hundredweight up to races all over this United States.... talk about it at any great length the, the four-$4.92 .... Now if they, if you If you wait till next year, I don't care economics of it, but as far as the politics don't support the price, they're going to what you do for them, they're going to are concerned- looking to 1972, it, uh, have to drop it because their, their re­ say, well, we put enough pressure on it appears very clear to me that you're sources aren't such that they can con- them this election year, they had to do Illustrated by Betty Wells TEXAS M O N THLY 53 • Self-confessed bagman Jake Jacobsen stared glumly at a paper sack defense lawyer Edward Bennett Williams thrust in his face. Inside the bag was an envelope containing $10,000- money that John Connally claimed to have returned to his accuser. it. And you, you get no credit for it. So of milk. [General laughter.] Drink it The Truth. Just yesterday, chief defense it's still going to cost you an enormous while it's cheap. counsel Edward Bennett Williams told amount of money next year, and you FOUR YEARS LATER them softly, with his hands clasped get no political advantage out of it. ... April 17, 1975, in the Federal District prayerfully, that theirs was "the most PRESIDENT: Well, it's one of those Court Building, Washington, D.C. God-like service you will ever perform." things where- with all you experts sit­ It's been that sort of trial. ting around-where you have to make NOON. The tension isn't nearly as bad People-the press, court officials, a pGlitical judgment. My political judg­ as it will soon become. Only the first of marshals, lawyers, onlookers, the de­ ment is that the Congress is going to many dark conjectures have thus far fendant's friends and family- mill pass it. I could not veto it. Not because slithered across the mind, rumors are around the wide hallways in a kind of they're milk producers, but because yet unmongered, The Moment of apprehensive tedium, talking quietly they're farmers. And it would be just Truth is quite literally approaching: about nothing and feeling . rather turning down the whole damn Middle twelve good men and true (eight of helpless. Nobody wants to wander off America. Uh, where, uh, we, urn, where them women in this instance) have been lest the jury return while they're gone. we need support. And under the cir­ sequestered one hour and six minutes Reporters for wire services or radio out­ cumstances I think the best thing to do trying to discover whether John Bowden lets have dragooned their secretaries and is to just, urn, relax and enjoy it. Connally, Jr.- former Texas Governor, posted them at phone booths; there isn't EHRLICHMAN: Let's get credit. former Treasury Secretary, a man who a phone booth on the fourth floor with­ CONNALLY: You're in this thing for exactly a year ago dreamt seriously and out a secretary guarding it. everything you, you can get out of it. aloud of the Presidency of the United Everyone is waiting for a sign, any EHRLICHMAN: Now you could hold States- whether he did or did not on sign, about which they can speculate on your position now till you get the green two separate occasions accept bribes of the jury's deliberations. A defense at­ light, couldn't you? $5000 to influence an increase in milk torney says he's waiting to see if they CONNALLY: Oh sure. price supports. break for lunch: "If they're close to a PRESIDENT: What? There is nothing to do but wait. For verdict they'll probably work straight EHRLICHMAN: Yeah, as I say, then eleven days the jury sat silently (some­ through, but if they quit to eat it's Agriculture doesn't need to do anything times drowsy, sometimes attentive, probably gonna be a long afternoon." right away. sometimes bored or confused but always He says this with some concern, since PRESIDENT: You, you're now think­ silent) while Jake Jacobsen and John an early verdict is thought to favor Con­ ing of the political offer? Connally, bolstered by numerous attor­ nally. EHRLICHMAN: In a day or so. neys and 43 other witnesses, presented The defendant himself is inside the [The meeting is breaking up.] divergent versions of reality- and now courtroom, in his accustomed chair at EHRLICHMAN: Better go get a glass they alone must decide which is to be the head of the defense table, leafing 54 TE XAS MONTHLY • "He appeared subdued, a little hesitant, perhaps even, well, ... humbled. And that is not John Connally at all." This was the jury of John Connally's peers: three whites, nine blacks; five men, seven women. In the end, the entire case came down to one question: whether these twelve people believed John Connally or Jake Jacobsen. They chose Connally. through a magazine with little apparent must have marked him from the begin­ and basically populist attitudes. Yet at interest. He has lost fifteen pounds since ning, betokened his destiny from the the same time they weren't necessarily April a year ago, when, amidst mount­ very start, back when he arrived at the alike: Johnson believed deeply in the ing reports implicating him in the milk University's Austin campus with an air New Deal, supported it passionately and price scandal, he abruptly abandoned a of confidence and, yes, even then, of idolized Franklin Roosevelt; while Con­ 36-state speaking tour that resembled a smug superiority. "John did everything nally believed in .... What? Not the shakedown tour for a presidential cam­ you were supposed to do," remembers a New Deal, surely, nor the Great Society paign; three months later, he was in­ former roommate, "I mean everything either: he became the first governor to dicted for bribery, perjury, and con­ that was considered in in those days. He veto a War on Poverty project, fought spiracy.
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