Word: beckham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phones to check the outcry. From his Santa Ynez Ranch, the candidate himself called some 100 Republicans. All things considered, Reagan's cajoling held his conservative lines remarkably well. Outside of Mississippi, there were no delegate defections from Reagan throughout the South. Accepting Schweiker, conceded Delegate Bob Beckham of Georgia, is akin to the dilemma of a father "whose favorite son marries a girl you don't particularly like-you just do the best you can with it." More sympathetically, Guy Hunt, chairman of the Alabama delegation, agreed that "the church ain't just for the righteous...