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Ford had expected to touch off a wave of public support from influential Republicans by making his availability widely known over the past few weeks. But he noted last week with "disappointment" that "some who have urged me the most to campaign in their districts have not joined the fray. They are hedging their bets." He was aware that his late entry into the primary campaign would be resented by those who had worked so hard for so long on behalf of other candidates...
When Reagan lost narrowly to George Bush in Iowa, Sears' adversaries struck. His "imperial strategy," they complained, which had kept Reagan out of the fray, cost him the victory in the caucus. In advising Reagan to be less strident, Sears had made him more monotonous. Says Nofziger: "Reagan always was a slow learner. He just had to be hit by a two-by-four one more time. He woke up to the fact that he was not running his own campaign. He realized that Sears is cocky, pompous and arrogant...
...photog who had arrived late squeezed in next to me, but wasn't quite tall enough to shoot over the fray. Turning his camera upside down, lifting it into the air like a divine offering, he fired off about a hundred and twelve frames with his motor drive. "A few Hail Marys and I'm out of here," he winked, and took...
Back then though, Reagan strategists were still sunning in the August polls that had Reagan leading with 48 percent and George Bush pocketing a whopping 1 percent. John Sears, Reagan's top strategist, figured it was wisest to keep his man out of the fray (judging from Reagan's predilection for erratic public behavior. Sears had a point)--and retain the image of the untouchable front-runner. "It won't do any good to have Reagan going to coffees and shaking hands like the others," Sears explained before the Iowa caucuses. "People would get the idea that...
...inclination to respond to every allegation--erroneous allegation--that Senator Kennedy has made," Carter began. So far, psychologically correct: a continuation of the Rose Garden strategy that has proved so effective and so desperately frustrating to Kennedy, Carter had maintained the cool, unflappable image of a leader above the fray...