Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was Bob Dole, working the Frito-and-cheese table in Kissimmee Hall and predicting, "When all the rhetoric has died, I will be your nominee." Phil Crane declared optimistically, "This gives me the chance to break out of the crowd...
...Dole airlifted in 700 red roses from North Carolina, which were passed out by his wife and daughter; and he procured a maroon, hot-air balloon. Bush got not one but two balloons and rode in one himself. He offered rides, but few delegates could summon the courage to accept. When South Dakota Senator Larry Pressler invited delegates on an early morning jog, Bush, taking his wife and boys along, ran farther in a separate jaunt and served breakfast afterward...
...smoke-filled reception, Dole was holding forth on inflation and foreign policy. "How about all those crooks and stealing in government, Senator?" boomed an oldtimer. "I'm against them," Dole shot back with a wry grin. "Here, Mark. Get my picture quick!" yelled a young blond named Susie, tossing an Instamatic to her boyfriend. She fought her way through the crush of oglers around Crane until she was at the candidate's side. Crane was saying something important about the Ayatullah and lack of leadership, but it seemed to be lost on Susie and others...
Then the delegates filed out to punch their voting cards. The results: Reagan, 34.4%; Connally, 26.6%; Bush, 21.1%; Crane, 13.8%; Baker and Dole less than 1%. Bush's finish was the surprise of the weekend. Reagan left before the results were announced. As the delegates departed, the loudspeaker system was playing his canned thank-you speech, which echoed eerily through the emptying hall...
...them." Though some critics grumbled that he was too friendly with the Nixon White House early in the hearings, he emerged as a national figure and a front runner for Vice President on the 1976 Republican ticket. But Gerald Ford chose Senator Robert Dole, much to Baker's disappointment. Rumor had it that Baker was rejected at least in part because of the alcohol problems of his wife Joy, who had stopped drinking six months earlier...