“It is the only case on record of a man swimming toward a sinking ship.”

— Ralph Yarborough

On former Texas Governor John Connally's switch from Democratic to the Republican party in his bid for the Presidential nomination. Quoted in the Washington Post, 18 January 1988.

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Texas politician 1903–1996

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