Word: mate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest ifs of the season concerns Logan's sophomore running mate Eric Schuler, who is suffering from a knee injury-it is extremely doubtful that he will...
...into a schoolyard fight because he was rooting for Al Smith over Herbert Hoover for the presidency. Ever since, Patrick Lucey, 62, has been a stalwart of the Democratic Party, a key reason why Independent John Anderson chose him last week as his vice-presidential running mate...
That walkout, says Mitch Rogovin, the lawyer leading the fight to get Anderson on the ballots, made Lucey the logical choice to be the Congressman's running mate. "Anderson had taken a leave of absence from the Republican Party," says Rogovin, "and here Lucey was taking what looked like a leave of absence from the Democratic Party. He was the other side of the coin...
Campaign Director William Casey dismissed the entire episode as a "semantic mishmash," but the strained faces of staffers-and of Reagan and Running Mate George Bush, who was at his side during the press conference in Los Angeles-reflected a far deeper concern than that. Reagan's earlier remarks had managed to infuriate Peking, create the impression of a rift between Reagan and Bush, and make Reagan appear to be unschooled in an important area of U.S. foreign affairs. The episode also managed to do exactly what Democrats had been hoping for: it put Reagan on the defensive, correcting...
...into trouble, and at one point in a press conference argument about having government-to-government relations with Taiwan, Reagan confessed: "I don't know. I don't know that I said that or not, ah, I, I really don't." When his running mate George Bush offered, "He did not say that," a relieved Reagan piped up, "George says I didn't say it." In fact, Reagan did say it (that we should have "governmental" relations with Taiwan), and he said it in an almost offhand manner in Cleveland several months...