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Most voters did not question the President's intentions, only his competence. They gave him an "A" for effort but an "F" for execution. Said former Reagan Aide Lyn Nofziger: "Some will say at least he tried. But others feel that if we didn't know already he was inept, this proves it. Republicans are not clucking in glee. They are wringing their hands, like the guy I had lunch with who said, 'It took him five months to do this. He could have done it in five days.' " Wisconsin Democratic Congressman Henry Reuss urged Carter...
Arriving in the state capital to take his first and only elective public office, Reagan had no veteran advisers on whom to rely. Recalls Lyn Nofziger, Reagan's press secretary at the time: "His campaign was run by hired people who then walked away and left it. When he was elected, the big question was, 'My God, what...
They finally got Rasputin, didn't they?" So chortled I longtime Reagan Aide Lyn Nofziger over the sudden sacking of Campaign Manager John Sears, who only last August had pushed Nofziger out. The departure of the superstrategist who ran the 1976 campaign brings a decisive shift in the Reagan candidacy: the return to power of the highly conservative California old guard that largely advised Reagan until Sears took over and shouldered them aside in recent months. Indeed, some of the most intriguing maneuverings of the 1980 presidential race have taken place within the Reagan camp-a struggle, it might...
...behalf of civilization." From the audience, an echoing "Amen." "We have to start from finding what our mission is, and then work to make ourselves strong, productive, healthy and educated enough to fulfill that mission." Before he's done, the crowd is on its feet, chanting "Win with Lyn," even the guards smiling, chanting...
Sears' dominance of the staff was shown when he maneuvered two of Reagan's longtime aides out of the campaign. As finance director, Lyn Nofziger had argued with Sears' decision to start the campaign slowly and to replace some Reagan loyalists from 1976 with more moderate organizers. When fund raising lagged and Nofziger became more combative, Sears forced him to quit. Aide Mike Deaver then took charge of money raising, but Sears resented Deaver's independence. To spare Reagan the pain of choosing between the two, Deaver resigned...