Word: californians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ford to run. Stuart Spencer, a key Ford strategist during the 1976 race, began putting together a campaign staff. Ford met with Ohio Governor James Rhodes, among others, to discuss politics. He even conferred with John Sears, the man Reagan fired as his campaign manager on the day the Californian won big in New Hampshire. Neither man would say whether or not Sears had been asked to join a Ford campaign, although the former President did acknowledge that Sears would "be a great asset." Said Sears: "I believe Ford could be nominated. I don't think the timing...
Reagan has one intangible asset in the South: he campaigns better there than in the Northeast. He gestures more freely, ipeaks more vigorously, even looks younger. One reason may be the weather. Like many another Southern Californian, Reagan is far more at ease when he can strip off his suit jacket, as he did two weeks ago on the sun-drenched campus of Palm Beach Junior College in Florida. Cried Reagan: "It is time to start a crash military buildup, to make us so strong that no one will ever again raise a hand against the U.S." The students cheered...
...General Mills, for example, is building a plant in De Kalb, Ill., whose first big crops of lettuce and spinach will be on the market this spring. But it is among home gardeners, particularly in urban and arid areas, that soilless growing is rising fastest. Predicts Raymond Bridwell, a Californian whose 1972 book Hydroponic Gardening has sold some 120,000 copies: "Hydroponics has grown ten times in the past 18 months, and it will grow 100 times in the next 18 months...
...third-place finish by Anderson is not necessarily just a gleam in his campaign manager's eye. After all, Ronald Reagan just doesn't care about the Massachusetts race, which is probably a good thing because Republicans who supported former President Ford in '76 wouldn't vote for the Californian anyway. And Sen. Howard Baker may all too easily yield third place--he has hired only four campaign staffers to work the entire state...
...Sears gambled and lived to regret it. He persuaded Reagan to announce before the G.O.P. convention that his choice as his vice-presidential running mate would be Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker, whose liberal image on some issues cost the Californian support in his close but losing fight with Gerald Ford. This time Sears has resolved to be much more cautious. Says he: "Each campaign is an original. The game goes to the one who recognizes the changes and knows how to act on them...