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staff report
Connally’s role in
U.S. history
The Public Utility Com-
mission of Texas today
re 20th century transformed the United States from bly.
echoed a call from the Elec-
tric Reliability Council of
Texas for electricity conser-
vation. Narrow margins be-
tween cold-driven demand
and the supply of available
power across the state are
expected to occur periodical-
ly through Tuesday
"The lowest temperatures
Texas has seen in decades ne-
cessitate a shared response
across the state, from house- mand response’ in the form said. “As the operating re-
holds to factories,” Chairman of reduced consumption is serves shrink, they can also
DeAnn Walker said. “Along an essential shared action.” declare an Energy Emergen-
with the tools ERCOT uses cy Alert, a three-level system
to maintain the reliability of Household tips for reducing which progressively employs
the grid, common sense con- electricity use include: additional actions to keep
■ Turning down thermostats the grid stable.”
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j a moderate power only loosely involved in world
A affairs into a superpower where most questions of
foreign relations revolved around American goals and
intentions. Much of this transition began taking place
during the period just before and just after World War
Connally won re-election
easily in 1946. Nationally,
the Democrats lost their
majority in the Senate in
light of President Harry S.
II. Numerous treaties were ratified, much planning was Truman’s unpopularity at
required, and many discussions took place in the U. S.
Senate. An important part of this work in creating a
global role for the United States came from a one-time,
small-toum attorney from McLennan County, Texas.
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servation also plays a critical
role in our state’s endurance
of this challenge.”
ERCOT has called upon
power consumers across the
grid to reduce their electric-
ity use as much as possible
from Sunday, February 14, to
Tuesday, February 16.
“This record cold is not
only compelling customers to
increase their power usage
to stay warm, it’s also icing
wind turbines and straining
the time. Connally lost his
chairmanship of the For-
eign Relations Committee
but stayed on the commit-
tee. The chairmanship loss
would be reversed when
Democrats regained the
Senate in 1948. With the
Cold War with the Soviet
Union deteriorating, a new
treaty appeared before the
committee that would also
have lasting repercussions
for the nation.
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globe as World War II raged. Treaty allied the United
As World War II neared rear amea me anted
A „ , , States with Canada, and
an end, Connally supported ten European nations into
new American leadership the North Atlantic Treaty
in world affairs following n : : A 11
enlisted in the army to fight the war. Roosevelt himself rganizat on. onnally
• 6 "pushed its approval through
committee, and it was
ratified in the Senate on
July 21,1949, by a vote of
82 to 13. NATO would be
the first permanent alliance
that the United States had
entered into since it
allied with France during
the American Revolu-
tion. NATO became the *
cornerstone of America’s 1
defensive posture against
any communist expansion
in Europe and was the first
line of defense in any con-
frontation with the Soviets
during the decades-long 1
Cold War. -
America’s commitments
abroad faced another test
with the outbreak of the
Korean War in 1950. Con-
nally’s committee helped
provide Truman with the
congressional support he
needed in organizing for the
latest war. Connally also
openly defended Truman’s
controversial firing of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur in 1951
for publicly criticizing the
president.
Connally decided not
to seek re-election in
1952. After his retirement,
he remained in Washington;
and though 75 years old, he
opened a law firm. He died
in October 1963. He died
in a world that now looked
to America for leadership in
defense of the free world.
Thomas Terry
Connally was born
on a farm near the
small community
of Hewitt in Mc-
Lennan County on
August 19, 1877,
just after the end of
Reconstruction. He
graduated from Bay-
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ca could not afford
to shy way from the
demands of a dan-
gerous world. Con-
nally’s role as
Foreign Relations
Chair proved to be
invaluable as the
nation worked with
- Allies across the
| lor University in 1896 at
age 19 and earned a law
degree from the Universi-
ty of Texas in 1898. Imme-
diately after graduation, he
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had supported the Ameri-
can entry into the League
role that America must play of Nations years before
in world affairs, but in the and now supported a new
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in Falls County to set up a
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House Foreign Affairs Com-
mittee where he actively
supported President Wood-
row Wilson’s leadership on
the world stage and plans
dedicated to peace and
justice among the nations
of the world. Roosevelt had
referred to the Allies as
“the United Nations” since
the United Nations Decla-
ration in 1942 and pushed
for the creation of a formal
organization that united all
the world’s nations.
Connally was a natu-
ral choice to serve as a
delegate, one of 850 from 51
nations.
He met with delegates
from other nations to
form the United Nations
as delegates met in San
for American entry into the Francisco, California, in
League of Nations, an orga-
nization dedicated to world
peace founded by Wilson.
Because of bitterly divisive
debates over the League,
American entry never came
to pass.
Connally was elected to
April 1945. He was named
vice-chairman of the Con-
ference on International
Organization that formally
created the UN. He served
as a representative to the
first UN conference in Lon
don later that year and
the U. S. Senate in 1928. He the second UN conference
eventually came to serve on in 1946 in New York, which
the Senate Foreign Rela- later became its permanent
tions Committee, becoming headquarters. He also
its chair in 1941. He sup- helped the UN begin ex-
ported President Franklin panding beyond the initial
D. Roosevelt’s efforts to World War II allies in 1946
help arm the Allies as they by securing the admission
fought against the Nazis of Afghanistan, Iceland,
and the Japanese. Ameri- and Sweden to the assem-
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