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The Woman Behind the Kamala Harris Presidential Campaign Is Ann Richards’s...
California Senator Kamala Harris had what many consider a boffo kickoff last week for her Democratic presidential campaign—a huge rally in Oakland, the most widely viewed CNN candidate town hall ever,...
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Midland Oilman Clayton Williams (1931-2020): Winner in Business, Not in Politics
There was never enough for Midland oilman Clayton Williams. Never enough crude and gas to extract. Never enough ranchland to graze. Never enough groundwater to exploit. Never enough wealth. “Money is...
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A Broadway Veteran Channels Ann Richards
For the veteran actor Holland Taylor, there’s no one surefire method for successfully embodying a real-life character onstage. But nailing down someone’s manner of speaking—and in the case of Ann...
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Why We Need Strong Texas Women
I recently came across a roast of Ann Richards on C-SPAN that took place in Port Arthur in 1992. It seemed like something out of another era—that brief time when George H. W. Bush was president and...
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Yes, George W. Bush Changed Texas. But Not the Way You Think.
There’s a good case to be made that Texas’s 1994 gubernatorial election is the most consequential event in the state’s modern history. On November 8, George W. Bush defeated Democrat Ann Richards by...
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