Marching through Georgia

M6arching Through Georgia

The Holiday Inn on Delk Road in Marietta, Georgia isn’t exactly a pleasure dome, but that’s all right, because John Connally hasn’t come there for pleasure. He must address a breakfast rally in Marietta at 8:30 in the morning, and he has flown in the night before from Florida, where he gave a press conference in Miami and opened a phone bank in West Palm Beach. With a schedule like that, luxury is beside the point, and when morning comes, the aides and reporters bundle into the motorcade almost willingly.

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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M6arching Through Georgia

The Holiday Inn on Delk Road in Marietta, Georgia isn’t exactly a pleasure dome, but that’s all right, because John Connally hasn’t come there for pleasure. He must address a breakfast rally in Marietta at 8:30 in the morning, and he has flown in the night before from Florida, where he gave a press conference in Miami and opened a phone bank in West Palm Beach. With a schedule like that, luxury is beside the point, and when morning comes, the aides and reporters bundle into the motorcade almost willingly.