Word: californians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...showdown, but a real dilemma about the second slot. With 1,000 or more Reagan delegates on the floor, the convention is sure to have a conservative set of mind. The President cannot afford to antagonize Reagan, and yet Ford's advisers say he does not want the Californian on the ticket. He considers Reagan too far to the right to provide the proper ideological balance. But if Ford is nominated by only a skimpy margin, he faces two unappealing options: he can buck the Reagan delegates and dare to pick his own man, or he can throw open...
...rallying cry of a host of rivals who sense that he is vulnerable. In the past two weeks he has beaten Udall by 2% in Connecticut and .3% in Michigan, lost a squeaker to Frank Church in Nebraska, and has been clobbered by Brown in Maryland. This week Californian Brown is favored to win neighboring Nevada, and Church to carry his native Idaho. But Carter is working hard at holding his edge in Oregon and is a safe bet in Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee. Carter is still the odds-on favorite for the nomination, but as Laurence Radway, Democratic party...
...there was no doubt that Ronald Reagan believed attacking Secretary Kissinger was good politics. Again and again the Californian lashed out at the Administration for adopting the policies that have inflamed the Republican right wing: Kissinger's having "bowed and scraped" before the Soviet Union in his efforts to maintain detente; his negotiations to "give away" the Panama Canal; his overtures to Fidel Castro last year; his purported pessimism about the future of America and the free world...
...Californian owed much of his victory to conservative Democrats who crossed over to vote Republican. Said G.O.P. Senator John Tower, Ford's Texas campaign chairman: "The Reagan organization, aided by former Wallace leaders, made a concerted and obviously successful effort to get Wallaceites into the Republican primary to support Governor Reagan." Even though the outcome was distorted by Democratic votes, it will provoke many agonizing doubts among campaign strategists at the White House...
...Californian who would Talk California-a state so blessed. He said, in climate, none had ever died there A natural death. Robert Frost...