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...constituency outside a few friends in Texas." Connally has not run for office in ten years and, even if Ford picks him as his running mate, he probably could not bring heavily Democratic Texas into Ford's electoral total. Already a group of ten Northeastern Republican state chairmen are considering a plea to Ford that he bypass Connally as a running mate. Insisted one of Connally's most prominent rivals for the vice-presidential nomination: "Connally would be a disaster. He's got the milk fund, he's got the wheeler-dealer image...
...nomination in four years. He spent the intervening time campaigning for local Republican candidates, particularly in the sunbelt, picking up IOU's wherever he went. So when Rockefeller emerged with his inevitable polls showing him beating Johnson in '68, it hardly mattered--Nixon had the GOP county chairmen. Rockefeller tried to offset Nixon's advantage with a $4.6 million media blitz and a new set of polls. But after the assassination of Robert Kennedy it was too late--Nixon had run in the primaries, and Rockefeller was trying to run in thepolls. The party leaders resented...
...took over a party that, in Mr. Dooley's crack, was not on speaking terms with itself. The party's liberal wing distrusted Strauss as a Texan who walked a line to the right of center. But he has proved to be one of the most effective chairmen in memory-an excellent fund raiser and conciliatory referee...
...slogging service to their parties-ringing doorbells, running Xerox machines, driving voters to the polls on election days. They include an air-pollution technician from Virginia, a haberdasher from Kansas, a housewife from Oklahoma and a community antipoverty organizer from New York. Some Governors, big-city mayors and state chairmen head uncommitted groups, but their persuasive powers may be lost on the individual delegates; many intend to vote their own consciences...
...Identical standards are used for judging all students at the Harvard Medical School. The chairmen of all of the preclinical departments have issued a signed statement to the effect that all students who graduate from the Harvard Medical School have received intensive training in the biological basis of medicine and all have been evaluated by the same academic standards. Similarly, there is no evidence to suggest that dual standards are used in the clinical clerkships...