Changes

In 1964, Reese ran unsuccessfully for state Jaycees president at the state convention in Fort Worth but instead was named first vice president. The next year he became state president by acclamation. He left KOSA because the co-owner and general manager, Cecil L. Trigg, later partner of the Dallas-based Trigg Vaughn chain of radio and television stations, told Reese that the Jaycees presidency would require too much time from his station duties. Therefore, Reese resigned from KOSA, switched to the brokerage business, and never looked back at broadcasting.<ref>Reese, pp. 130-131.</ref>

In 1964, Reese ran unsuccessfully for state Jaycees president at the state convention in Fort Worth but instead was named first vice president. The next year he became state president by acclamation. He left KOSA because the co-owner and general manager, Cecil L. Trigg, later partner of the Dallas-based Trigg Vaughn chain of radio and television stations, told Reese that the Jaycees presidency would require too much time from his station duties. Therefore, Reese resigned from KOSA, switched to the brokerage business, and never looked back at broadcasting.<ref>Reese, pp. 130-131.</ref>

On a Jaycees trip to [[Washington, D.C.]], Reese met former U.S. Representative [[Brooks Hays]], an [[Arkansas]] Democrat who was an assistant to [[U.S. President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]].  A theologically and politically liberal figure within the [[Southern Baptist Convention]],<ref>Terry D. Goddard, "Southern Social Justice: Brooks Hays (1898-1981) and the Little Rock School Crisis," ''Baptist History and Heritage'' (Spring 2003), Website: findarticles.com, accessed November 11, 2010.</ref> Hays acquired national attention in 1958, when he was defeated for reelection by a write-in candidate, the ophthalmologist and former radio announcer Dale Alford because of Hays' support for the desegregation of Central High School in [[Little Rock]].<ref>James D. Baker, ''Brooks Hays'' (Macon, [[Georgia]]: Mercer University Press, 1989), pp. 71-102.</ref><ref>In 1966, Hays resigned from Johnson's staff to run unsuccessfully for the Arkansas Democratic gubernatorial nomination but lost to James D. Johnson, who was then defeated by the [[Moderate Republican]] [[Winthrop Rockefeller]].</ref> Reese recalls that Hays told the Jaycees that Washington had become powerful in relation to the states because national leaders can at an objective distance usually make more accurate professional decisions than can local people directly involved in civic matters. Reese describes the Hays philosophy as totally counter to his own [[conservative]], decentralized approach to public matters.<ref>Reese, p. 131.</ref>

On a Jaycees trip to [[Washington, D.C.]], Reese met former U.S. Representative [[Brooks Hays]], an [[Arkansas]] Democrat who was an assistant to [[U.S. President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]].  A theologically and politically liberal figure within the [[Southern Baptist Convention]],<ref>Terry D. Goddard, "Southern Social Justice: Brooks Hays (1898-1981) and the Little Rock School Crisis," ''Baptist History and Heritage'' (Spring 2003), Website: findarticles.com, accessed November 11, 2010.</ref> Hays acquired national attention in 1958, when he was defeated for reelection by a write-in candidate, the ophthalmologist and former radio announcer [[Dale Alford]] because of Hays' support for the desegregation of Central High School in [[Little Rock]].<ref>James D. Baker, ''Brooks Hays'' (Macon, [[Georgia]]: Mercer University Press, 1989), pp. 71-102.</ref><ref>In 1966, Hays resigned from Johnson's staff to run unsuccessfully for the Arkansas Democratic gubernatorial nomination but lost to [[James D. Johnson]], who was then defeated by the [[Moderate Republican]] [[Winthrop Rockefeller]].</ref> Reese recalls that Hays told the Jaycees that Washington had become powerful in relation to the states because national leaders can at an objective distance usually make more accurate professional decisions than can local people directly involved in civic matters. Reese describes the Hays philosophy as totally counter to his own [[conservative]], decentralized approach to public matters.<ref>Reese, p. 131.</ref>

On that same trip to Washington, Reese met President Johnson, Teamsters President [[Jimmy Hoffa]], and future U.S. President [[Gerald Ford]], then a U.S. representative from Grand Rapids, [[Michigan]]. Some ten years later, Reese would be running for Congress on the ticket with Ford and vice-presidential running-mate, [[U.S. Senator]] [[Robert J. Dole]] of [[Kansas]], but all went down to defeat at the hands of the Democrats [[Jimmy Carter]], [[Walter Mondale]], and George Herman Mahon.<ref>Reese, pp. 131-132.</ref>

On that same trip to Washington, Reese met President Johnson, Teamsters President [[Jimmy Hoffa]], and future U.S. President [[Gerald Ford]], then a U.S. representative from Grand Rapids, [[Michigan]]. Some ten years later, Reese would be running for Congress on the ticket with Ford and vice-presidential running-mate, [[U.S. Senator]] [[Robert J. Dole]] of [[Kansas]], but all went down to defeat at the hands of the Democrats [[Jimmy Carter]], [[Walter Mondale]], and George Herman Mahon.<ref>Reese, pp. 131-132.</ref>