Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Five from Virginia. One each from Delaware, Illinois, Louisiana, South Carolina. Mississippi, clinging to a unit rule, was poised to switch its 30 votes from Ronald Reagan to Gerald Ford. The President had the nomination wrapped up, with 1,135 votes, five more than needed to nominate. Reagan might accept the vice-presidential nomination and join Ford to knock out Jimmy Carter with the Republicans' strongest one-two punch...
...Campaign Manager John Sears,'offering no substantiation, contended that Reagan already had 1,140 delegates pinned down-ten more than needed for the nomination. ("He's blowing smoke," scoffed James Baker, Ford's chief delegate hunter.) Reagan insisted yet again there was "no way" he would accept the Veep role, but was instead working on his top-of-the-ticket acceptance speech. He challenged Ford to a debate at the Kansas City convention. Ford refused. Referring to the Ford efforts to create a stampede atmosphere, Reagan Aide David Keene declared: "If we hold it this week...
...prospects of winning the presidential nomination ebbed, Ronald Reagan strongly reiterated that he would not accept the vice-presidential nomination "under any circumstances...
Nixon Link. At home, many Republicans cannot accept Connally because he is a backslid Democrat, a Lyndon Johnson confidant who switched parties in 1973, opportunistically figuring that Nixon would help him win the 1976 presidential nomination. Indeed, he was Nixon's first choice to succeed Spiro Agnew in 1973, until it became clear that Congress would not confirm...
...proclaims Reagan, "the cure is a balanced budget." He argues that the Government should set a specific timetable for bringing spending into line with revenues and stick to it come what may. He implies that he would even accept a renewed recession as the price of carrying out that policy. Says Reagan: "In correcting inflation, I'm afraid there will temporarily be economic dislocation...