Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still in a scramble after the long battle to win in Kansas City. A number of basic budget decisions have not been made, though about $10 million has been allocated for media blitzes. At one point last week, two staffers were separately scheduling the campaign itinerary of Senator Robert Dole, Ford's running mate...
...Illinois is a tossup. Dick Daley's great Republican-grinding machine and Chicago's blacks are offset by conservative suburbanites and downstaters. Ohio is a toss-up too. So is Michigan, Ford's home state, where local pride may not be enough to overcome resentment over the recession. Bob Dole's Kansas seems as secure for Ford as Fritz Mondale's Minnesota seems safe for Carter. Ford also should carry Nebraska, but Iowa and the Dakotas are anybody's race. The President might score an upset in usually liberal Wisconsin; Milwaukee is heavily populated by ethnic minorities, and the countryside...
Late in the week, Ford assembled John Connally, who had turned down the job of heading the Republican National Committee, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Dole for strategy sessions. Connally later told newsmen that he has detected "fear" and "uncertainty" about Carter, and Ford quickly seconded him, indicating that he will try to exploit this feeling. Connally also made light of Ford's gap in the polls, declaring that it was "no hill for a stepper." Ford added that he believed the American people wanted "somebody with experience" conducting foreign policy, not "somebody whose name they didn...
...general G.O.P. strategy will be to give the campaign street-fighting chores to Dole, permitting Ford to be more "presidential." In particular, Ford is counting heavily on the debates with Carter that he proposed during his acceptance speech. Because of his familiarity with the issues, Ford is convinced he will do well. Negotiating arrangements for the debates, emissaries from the two camps are circling each other like Soviet and American underlings worrying over the table shape for an East-West conference. Ford wants the debates to begin early in September; Carter is holding out for later in the month, presumably...
...hopes for a summer rally have finally disappeared in the past two weeks. Prices have drifted sideways on light volume during most of the hot weather, and are now ending the dog days with a downturn. The Dow Jones industrial average two weeks ago fell 33 points, following Robert Dole's selection as President Ford's running mate-a move some nervous investors saw as increasing the chances that the Republican ticket would lose. Last week the Dow fell another 10.14 points, to a close...