Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to all the expert predictions, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan will battle right down to the wire. The California challenger stands to win six or seven of the nine primaries this week and next. Then on June 8, the President should easily take Ohio and New Jersey, but the...
After four private conversations in which they discussed the Reagan delegate advantage, Ford and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller plotted a dramatic countermove. To slow any rush of uncommitted delegates to Reagan, Rocky agreed to throw as much of the big New York delegation as he could behind Ford now-rather...
Pride and Power. If his opponents somehow coalesced to block him, they would make the whole primary campaign look like a charade and probably lose the South, which increasingly views the Georgian as the man who has brought pride and power to the region. Thus, the D.N.C. is already preparing...
The misconceptions Moynihan has foisted on an anomic public desperately wanting to believe in an American "purpose" are incredible. He claimed last October 3 at an AFL-CIO convention, that Israel is hated by the third world because it is a democracy. Moynihan did not mention the question of Palestinian...
("The man sure knows how to talk to black folks," said one participant.) But some delegates held out for a campaign to slow Carter down in hopes of making the black bloc more important at the nominating convention in New York. That general impulse, diffuse and uncoordinated now, probably accounts...