Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among his other problems, the President is burdened by Watergate; memories of Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon will surface often in the next ten weeks. In his keynote address, Baker tried to bury the issue by contending that the Republicans had faced up to it "with honor and dignity." And he carried the battle to the Democrats: "Since then, America has learned a lot about other political abuses in prior Democratic Administrations, and even in the present Democratic Congress?abuses of personal liberties, invasions of privacy and political mischief of the most shocking type. But there...
...seized upon the Reagan candidacy to vent his resentment of Rosenbaum's iron chancellorship and Rockefeller's tight paternal grip. The two leaders had fought first in Kansas over whether Clark could have a Reagan telephone on the floor, then over whether Reagan should be formally invited to address the whole delegation. Rosenbaum vetoed both ideas. Complained Reagan Delegate Vito Battista: "This is like the Gestapo...
JOHN CONNALLY, 59, was the most apparent loser. Usually a spellbinder, he hurried through a strangely flat address to an underwhelmed convention. His peroration was so gloomy that he sounded like a Texas Spengler: "How long this civilization, this free society of America will exist, I do not know...
...best moments, however, came while television looked the other way. All three networks missed seeing Vice President Nelson Rockefeller set off a near fistfight when he grabbed a North Carolina delegate's Reagan placard. While New York Senator Jacob Javits delivered the week's lone liberal address, and Reagan delegates broke into noisy disapproval, NBC Anchor Men John Chancellor and David Brinkley contemplated a souvenir towel from the 1968 convention. With few thoughtful exceptions in the anchor booths-ABC's George McGovern on the vice presidency, CBS'S brisk Bill Moyers on virtually anything, Walter Cronkite...
Then investigators learned more about Irving Zilbert. He had died of a heart attack six months before his award check was cashed. Jerry's Home Improvement Co., Zilbert's purported employer, was nowhere to be found; its address turned out to be that of a vacant barber shop. In early August, with the discovery of other false claims, Zilbert's physician, his lawyer, three other doctors, another lawyer and 14 other people were indicted for defrauding the state of Ohio of a total of $65,000. It was only one of several cases to emerge...