Word: mate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began to happen. Former California Governor Ronald Reagan convened his expected press conference at noon E.D.T., then proceeded to stun his party and the nation with the unexpected: his bold, perhaps desperate gamble for needed convention votes by naming liberal Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker as his vice-presidential running mate. By midweek, the word was flowing in by telephone and telex from our correspondents: Reagan had angered conservatives; yet he had failed to attract moderates. His bizarre gamble had not worked. TIME's editors decided that the sudden rush of events demanded cover treatment. With that, Senior Writer...
Hyperbole and polls aside, Connally needs only one vote-that of the presidential nominee. Some confidants of both Ford and Reagan reckon that Connally could be the most electric No. 2 that either man could choose. Reagan's advisers say Connally would be a "very acceptable" running mate. Notes one top aide: "I'd love to see Connally take on Jimmy Carter." White House and Ford committee aides report that Connally support runs especially strong among Reagan backers. Thus Ford could partly mollify the conservative Reagan wing by tapping Connally...
...last, Carter seemed to have come out into the open. He chose a running mate, Senator Walter Mondale, who has a 94% approval rating from the Americans for Democratic Action, an apparent liberal's liberal. At the Democratic Convention, Carter delivered an avowedly Populist sermon that attacked the "political and economic elite," the "big-shot crooks" who never go to jail, and the "unholy, self-perpetuating alliances [that] have been formed between money and politics." Among other things, he repeated his endorsement of the idea of a national health system-an expensive proposition for an anti-Government candidate...
Moral Reservations. In that perspective, his choice of Minnesota's Fritz Mondale as his running mate was thoroughly consistent. But Mondale, like Carter, is capable of surprising. His Senate votes are usually liberal, of course. But as a member of the Senate Budget Committee, he has opposed meat-ax cuts in the defense budget. He did not support George McGovern in his fight to kill the B-1 bomber. He has had misgivings about both busing and the Humphrey-Hawkins full-employment bill. Like Carter, he has moral reservations about abortion, though he accepts the Supreme Court decision legalizing...
...candidate was not talking and his aides did not know. So the 5,500 reporters competing for scoops at the Madison Square Garden love-in were unable to find out in advance the identity of Jimmy Carter's running mate. Except for Gilbert Giles. By following up a tip from an associate of Edmund Muskie who was privy to the Maine Senator's pre-convention discussions with Carter, Giles made a shrewd guess and beat the rest of the press by a full day on the convention's one big newsbreak. IT'S OFFICIAL: MONDALE/CAR-TER! crowed...