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For weeks now the 1976 Republican National Convention has shaped up as a tricky challenge to politicians and journalists alike, with the outcome more and more unpredictable. After the almost endless series of ups and downs in the fortunes of the candidates and the increasingly terse infighting, the convention promised...
Since Reconstruction, the Republican Party has not amounted to much in Mississippi. It helped Barry Goldwater carry the state in 1964 and Richard Nixon in 1972, and today it has two Congressmen out of five. But it has only two state senators out of 52 and three state representatives out...
Washington Governor Daniel Evans, 50, could bring some of the Reagan Far West popularity and non-Washington image to the ticket. Illinois Congressman John Anderson, 54, a moderate, is popular in the House and Midwest. U.N. Ambassador and former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, 59, is an able Ford friend and...
JOHN RHODES, 59, who succeeded Ford as House minority leader, will be chairman of the Kansas City convention. A Goldwater conservative from Arizona, Rhodes is popular with many moderates as well. His opposition to environmental issues has landed him on a list of a "Dirty Dozen" marked for defeat by...
> Senator Barry Goldwater gave him a boost, saying, "John Connally of Texas is a man that to me knows more about American business, American foreign policy, American defense, and how to get it across to the people than probably any other man in America-including the President."