Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If Ford tries to buck the mood of the delegates and pick a liberal Northerner, Reagan feels it could tear the convention apart. He personally will oppose such a move. Says he: "It would be a foolish mistake. Ford would lose the South. And a lot of Republicans might not...
The consensus of party professionals is that Ford will make a guarded offer of the vice presidency to Reagan. Reagan finds this a wry irony. "He doesn't have to worry," says the Californian. "I absolutely will never take that job." Reminded that others in the past have abruptly...
Most informed speculation now focuses on six prospects. The group is headed by Reagan and Connally and includes Tennessee Senators Baker and Bill Brock, Iowa Governor Robert Ray and House Minority Leader John Rhodes of Arizona. All except Baker and Ray are well to the right of center. Baker is...
These deficits do not diminish Connally's ambition. He has kept highly visible in recent weeks by speaking at Republican fund raisers and heading a committee that tried to encourage anti-Communist voting in the Italian elections. He plans to attend his very first Republican convention on Aug. 16...
Now, at last, Carter seemed to have come out into the open. He chose a running mate, Senator Walter Mondale, who has a 94% approval rating from the Americans for Democratic Action, an apparent liberal's liberal. At the Democratic Convention, Carter delivered an avowedly Populist sermon that attacked...