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...advocated making Social Security payments voluntary for those over 45 years of age. Ever the opportunistic politician, Brown quickly created a series of T.V. ads showing scissors clipping a Social Security card as a voice implied that Pete Wilson wants to scrap the system. Los Angeles Times analyst Richard Bergholz, however, claimed that in fact the candidates' views on the issue are virtually identical to each others...
Even though Reagan had Schweiker under the most serious consideration and was about to discuss the vice presidency with him, the former Governor told Los Angeles Times Reporter Richard Bergholz in an interview on Saturday morning: "The compatibility of the political philosophies of the presidential and vice-presidential nominees is preeminently important. I don't rule out balancing the ticket geographically ... Philosophically is the only place where I say it is hypocritical to choose some one of the opposite view...
...Times assigned two men to cover the gubernatorial campaign-Greenberg and the paper's other political reporter, Richard Bergholz, 45. The two alternated on the trail of Nixon and incumbent Governor Pat Brown. Greenberg's reporting was so neutral that he was met with equal cordiality by both camps...
...distinctions, if any, between Greenberg and Bergholz stories were extremely fine. Greenberg rarely evaluated what he saw and heard. But Bergholz occasionally did. After reporting a Nixon speech on the state's failure to meet its own destiny, Bergholz added that the candidate "didn't say what he would do if he became Governor." The sensitive Nixon camp not only frowned on such embellishments but carefully noted that they never cropped up in Greenberg stories...
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