Word: mate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Betty Ford for Vice President? The novel notion has been proposed in some seriousness by Forbes magazine, which argues, reasonably enough, that "all everybody would be talking about, arguing about and enthusing about would be this unique ticket, this extraordinary running mate." Unique it certainly would be. And the sparkling Betty, clearly one of Gerald Ford's greatest political assets, might well help him attract a larger share of the women's vote in an uphill race if he gets his party's nomination next week in Kansas City...
...double-edged drive was difficult for Reagan and his putative running mate. Having told Southerners that Schweiker was not nearly as liberal as his voting record suggests, they argued in the North that Reagan's very selection of Schweiker showed that the Californian was not as doctrinaire and rigid a conservative as he has been portrayed. With this rationalization, Reagan managed to open a few more small cracks in Ford's strongest bastions. But he was still far short of cracking those bastions wide enough to give him more than a long-shot chance in Kansas City...
...press also appears to have missed the boat on Reagan's selection of Schweiker as his running-mate. Analysts were quick to label it a disaster, and the Times keeps on inserting this idiotic quip into all its stories about how Reagan attempts to show himself as less conservative than he is portrayed when in front of the Pennsylvania delegation and Schweiker tries to convince Mississippi delegates that he's less liberal than they think...
...opposition to Governor Reagan's choice of Senator Schweiker in any way lessened the possibility of your choosing a liberal from the Northeast as your running mate...
...Senator Schweiker ever someone you considered as a candidate for your own running mate...