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Philip J. Bryce...
Even the less active will find the parks fascinating, and why not? Viewing the strata exposed by the river in the Grand Canyon, the wind-weathered landscape of Bryce Canyon or the waterworn stalactites of Carlsbad Caverns is like looking backward through time. To watch an alligator glide through the Everglades is to see a world still unsullied by technology. Seeing a black bear beg for food beside a highway in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (the most popular in the system, with 11.4 million visitors last year) is proof that even in this age of the atom...
...Money. One possible compromise candidate is conservative Tennessee Senator William Brock, whose chief liability is that he was defeated for reelection. Some of Ford's Western supporters are suggesting Bryce Harlow, an ex-Nixon aide who is now Procter & Gamble's Washington vice president, but he has declined the post in the past. Other possibilities are John Sears, who managed Reagan's campaign but is considered more of a pragmatist than an ideologue, and Baker, who has described himself as philosophically closer to Reagan than to Ford...
Robert Hartmann, White House Counsellor and chief speechwriter, was given the assignment of collecting basic ideas from Cabinet members, senior White House staffers, campaign advisers, friendly Senators and Congressmen and old political pals like Melvin Laird and Bryce Harlow. Once the suggestions were compiled, Hartmann went over them with the President, who meanwhile had been studying every presidential acceptance speech since 1948 and jotting down ideas of his own on a yellow notepad...
...hotel suite until shortly after 5 a.m. the night of his nomination. The nine: Griffin, Rockefeller, White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney, Texas Senator John Tower, Campaign Pollster Robert Teeter, Campaign Strategist Stuart Spencer, Counsellor John Marsh, former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Veteran G.O.P. Presidential Adviser Bryce Harlow. When the consultants adjourned, exhausted, they were still uncertain whether the President had made up his mind. Not until they reconvened four hours later did Ford's final choice emerge, and then only obliquely: in his questions, the President kept coming back to Dole...