Word: mate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there you have the predicament of recent Republican history. From the time in the 1970s when the right wing of the G.O.P. zapped the moderates once and for all--a pivotal moment in that struggle was the substitution of Bob Dole for Nelson Rockefeller as Gerald Ford's running mate--there has never been any doubt as to whether the G.O.P. would be a conservative body. The only real questions have been how conservative and whose notion of conservatism it would be. If Republicans ever find an answer that truly matches the national mood, they might yet become the majority...
...liberalize the G.O.P. platform, in part by adding an unequivocal civil rights plank. Goldwater compared the meeting to Neville Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler at Munich. For the final insult, Nixon chose Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., a pedigreed symbol of the Eastern aristocrats, as his running mate...
...remember the chaos of picking a running mate at the very last minute: Adlai Stevenson in 1956 throwing the decision open to the convention, with the multiballot fight between John Kennedy, Estes Kefauver and Al Gore Sr. And the night in 1980 when we waited for Reagan to announce that he had chosen former President Ford, only to learn that the deal had collapsed at the last minute...
Such was the case last week as we debated what should be on this cover: the tantalizing evidence of life on Mars, or our Republican Convention package featuring Dole's choice of a running mate. One so timeless, the other so temporal. Other than through jokes about signs of life on Mars and in the G.O.P., it was hard to juxtapose them. And both subjects--the wonders of American politics and the marvels of science and technology--happen to be passions of mine...
...when national political correspondent Michael Duffy called Wednesday morning to say that Bob Dole seemed set to surprise folks by picking his longtime antagonist Jack Kemp as a running mate, we realized that the convention package being prepared by Stephen Koepp, Priscilla Painton and their Nation team was becoming the most fascinating political story of the year. It embodied all the marvelous interplay between politics and personality that has been TIME's franchise for 73 years. If the presidential race is destined to tighten (and I suspect it is), this could do it, and it will help clarify the very...