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When Howard Hollis ("Bo") Callaway was picked as Gerald Ford's campaign manager last June, he told his wife Beth: "I hope you can remember all of the nice things they said about me as Secretary of the Army because that's the last praise you'll hear." True enough. From almost his first day, he has been under attack from some quarter of the Republican Party...
...July liberals and moderates were enraged by Callaway's clumsy attempt to win Southern support for Ford by suggesting that Vice President Nelson Rockefeller was the President's "No. 1 problem" in the South and should perhaps be replaced by a younger man. More recently, in a meeting on Capitol Hill, conservative Republicans hissed and booed Callaway for suggesting that they should back Ford "because he's the only President we've got." Lately, Callaway has been under fire from Ford supporters who complain that he is running an inept campaign. Responds Callaway: "The only opinion...
Boyish-looking, fast-talking Callaway, 48, is no stranger to controversy. Member of a Georgia textile family whose fortune has been estimated at $40 million, he holds a commission from West Point, served three years in Korea and is a former regent of the University of Georgia. He was originally a states' rights Democrat. But he bolted the party to support Barry Goldwater in 1964, and was elected to Congress as a Republican. In the House he fought against the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Medicare and most other Great Society programs...
...Governor and lost to Democrat Lester Maddox. Two years later, as chairman of Richard Nixon's campaign in the South, Callaway suggested that George Wallace join forces with Nixon, implying that their views were similar. The mistake so angered Nixon strategists that Callaway was barred from any Administration job until 1973, when he became Army Secretary and distinguished himself by successfully organizing the volunteer army...
...Callaway was chosen to head Ford's election committee principally because of his impeccable credentials as a Southern conservative: Ford believed that Callaway could counter the Reagan threat from the right. But critics grumble that he has spent too much time traveling around the country to court conservatives instead of managing the overall campaign, that he lacks experience in presidential politics and has no organizing ability. Two weeks ago, Lee Nunn, a longtime Republican operative, quit as the campaign's director of organization and angrily accused Callaway of incompetence. Finance Chairman David Packard complains that fund raising...