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ather than go to prison, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned on Oct. 10, 1973 and gave Richard Nixon a second chance to replace him with a former governor of Texas.

John Bowden Connally, Jr. rose from the humblest circumstances to become Lyndon Johnson’s right-hand man.  He managed every major campaign of his mentor starting with LBJ’s unsuccessful race for the U.S. Senate in 1941 to his landslide election as president in 1964.

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