john connolly in 1959 ran into bob on the street in dallas. connolly was a lawyer in fort worth at the time and strauss was a lawyer in dallas at the time. connolly said i am getting a group of fellows together to go to washington to talk about johnson's residential nomination. do you want to come a long? that was the beginning of the end. he went along and he helped support the johnson nomination africa in 1960. kennedy won that year, but after that, because connolly was johnson's protÉge, strauss became one step closer to the white house when johnson became vice president. on the day in dallas when kennedy was assassinated, he was one of the hosts of that luncheon downtown. he was very involved and not bad, and one thing, and they wrote it in the book, it's right for people to doubt my objectivity. i would definitely doubt my objectivity but i tried to be more skeptical. when baba tells me stories about eating in the hospital, comforting nellie connelly after her husband was shot, john connolly was shot also and i was a little skeptical and i