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arner Still Regrets
leaving
By CARLTON WILSON
' United Press International
UVALDE, Tex. (UPI) -For-mer
Vice President John Nance
Garner, who will be 95 years
old on Nov. 22, tells visitors to
his small white frame house
that he regrets taking the job.
Gamer refers to bis giving up
his post as speaker of the House
in 1932 to become the running
mate of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt as "the worst dam
fool mistake I ever made."
"I left the second most Im
portant job to become a waiting
boy to the President in case
happened," ' Garner
to a
anything
said in an interview. "The vice
resident doesn't amount
hill of beans."
A visitor soon learns why the
bushy-browed old man was nick
named "Cactus Jack" during
30 years as a congressman
from south Texas. Garner still
has some of the old fire, he
was known for in politics.
Garner gets his way, from
the time he wakes up around
5 a.m. until he turns one of two
television sets off at' night.: He
has two sets, so he can watch
two baseball games his fa-
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iii in V efcim a i i
vorite programs at the same
time.
Son Tully Garner lives next
door to the one -story bouse
where the former - vice presi
dent stays. In front is the two
story brick . mansion Garner
gave to the city of Uvalde In
1948. After the death of bis
wife,' Ettie, that year the old
man decided the house was too
big for him to live in alone.
Uvalde citizens turned the borne
into the Garner Museum.
A maid cooks and cleans
house for the former vice, presi
dent, and an elderly male
comes over at night to be with
Garner. In a sample of his hu
morous outlook, Garner likes
to joke that he Is the "only 90-year-old
man with a 79-year-old
babysitter." V
Many visitors ytop by Gar
ner's house, and they find him
in the best mood after a late
afternoon nap.- Women are es
pecially welcome. Garner sel
dom lets one get away without
kissing her. '
They may sit and chat with
the still spry Garner in straight-
backed metal lawn chairs n the
yard, or be invited in to a small
living room' with red-flowered
wallpaper, adorned with photo
graphs and political memen
toes.. r . - Observed Quietly
. Birthdavs are usually obser
ved quietly, and there may be a
few special guests with a cake
tomorrow. - A big' party was
held five years ago, however,
as 3.000 well wishers included
Vice President Lyndon B. John
son,: former President Harry S
Truman and the late Speaker
Sam Rayburn, a long-time col
league of Garner in the U. S.
House of Representatives.
During: his 46 years in puouc
life, Garner developed a repu
tation as the noker-playingest,
whisky-drlnkingest man ever to
hold the nation's second highest
office. The salty congressman
was an adept politician, but no
longer likes to talk about those
years that ended in 1941 when
Garner left the vice presidency
for Texas with a vow never to
cross the Potomac River again.
.-"My, life 'in Washington is
past tense,"' he said. "That
comes under the statute of limi
tations." " .!-.;...
GARNER 9S FRIDAY Former Vice President John Nance
Garner will be 95 years old Friday, Nov. 22. This photo shows
him celebrating his 93rd birthday in 1961 and with President
Franklin D. Roosevelt In 1939. (UPI). ,r r. (.-,- -w r "
Short Courses Are Planned at College
CORVALLIS - Three short
courses have been announced
. for early 1964, by the Oregon
: State University School of For-
estry as a service to the forest
industry of uie Noruiwest.
The eighth annual Variable
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Registration will be announc
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As he talked, Garner drum
med the fingers of his right
hand on a brown wooden dining
table near his green metal chair.
Edges of bis fingernails are
worn ruler - straight from the
habit. On top of the table is a
green eye shade Garner wears
at times. .
He usually dresses in khakis
but puts on a coat and tie once
in a while. The citizens of
Uvalde, a town 75 miles west
of San Antonio with a popula
tion of 10,370, are used to seeing
Garner riding around town in
an old truck driven by 74-year-
old Lucas Zamoro, his friend
and bandy man. 1 !
Garner lives modestly but is
a wealthy man. In the last two
years he has given more than
$1 million of his fortune to
Southwest Texas Junior College
at Uvalde, a school of about 600
students.
"I'm 'for education," he said,
recalling that in the 1890's he
had been superintendent of
Uvalde County public schools.
"I don't want these kids around
here to have to suck on the hind
tit when it comes to getting a
good education." ;
Congress
For
vice
Presidency
. Garner was also Uvalde coun
ty judge in 1895, winning an
election in which he was criti
cized for playing poker. One of
the most vehement critics was
a neighboring ranch woman,
Miss Marietta Rheiner.
She had a change of heart
about Garner after the election,
and they were married. Their
only child, Tully, now 65, is a
Uvalde binker. "Cactus Jack"
moved from county judge to
the state legislature and then to
Washington as a Congresssman
in 1903.
' He was elected speaker in
1091 on1 Aurina hla firnt WMlc
pounded four gavels to splin
ters, darner ngurea in we an
balloting for the Democratic
oresidential nomination, but
threw in with Roosevelt and
became vice president. ;
Split With Roosevelt
Roosevelt and Garner split
over the third term issue in
1940, and "Cactus Jack" got out
of public life. He came home to
TavDt in niiltAP Arnlifift the.
house, feed the chickens, hunt
deer, care tor pecan trees ana
read.
Doctors advised him a 1 few
years ago to give up cigars and
whisky. Gamer switched from
Bourbon to grapefruit juice, but
kept on, smoking. His favorite
pastime is puffing on a strong
Mexican cigar. ;
He will offer a drink to visit
ors, with an invitation to "strike
a blow for liberty." And if they
are from Texas, Garner will ask
if a visitor was born in the
state.' -, t' ', ,
"Native Texans stand a little
higher than the rest," he re
marked. ! " '
' Garner himself was a native
son of the Lone Star State, "born
in a mud-chinked log cabin near
the town of Detroit in Red River
County on Nov. 22, 1868. His par
ents, John and Sarah ; Guest
Garner, were of Scotch .Irish
descent. Schools were far srway,
and much of Garner's education
was self-taught. That explains
bis gifts to the junior college. .
Reflecting on bis political
campaigns, Garner said:
"The only promise I -ever
made was to say: 'Boys, IU1 do
the best I can.' If you are honest
and intelligent, that is the only
platform you need to have."
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