Word: mates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sears scoffed at Connally's influence over other Republicans, calling him "a phenomenon of the press and his own wits," who "has no constituency outside a few friends in Texas." Connally has not run for office in ten years and, even if Ford picks him as his running mate, he probably could not bring heavily Democratic Texas into Ford's electoral total. Already a group of ten Northeastern Republican state chairmen are considering a plea to Ford that he bypass Connally as a running mate. Insisted one of Connally's most prominent rivals for the vice-presidential...
...election in 1980. The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution bars anyone who has served a full term and more than half of another from running again, and Ford in January will have served almost 2½ years of Nixon's second term. So in picking a running mate, Ford may also be selecting the future leader of the party, a factor that argues against such aging men as Nelson Rockefeller (67) and Reagan...
Aside from promising to choose a running mate whose ideology is similar to his own and in the party's "mainstream," Ford was listening-but not talking. Some of the party figures who meet his criteria and who are known to be highly regarded by Ford...
...week's end Ford declared his intention to consult all convention delegates, alternates and major Republican officeholders throughout the nation on their choices for a running mate. The gesture will engender a widespread feeling of participation, but in the end the decision will be made by Ford and his inner circle...
...Ford just puffed on his pipe. He asked the S.O.S. and Chowder and Marching Club (Republican hail fellows from Congress) to the White House for a chat. Then he sat back and listened as about 40 of them vented their views on whom he should select as a running mate and how he should run against Carter. Ford listened and smiled. One man present, an old college friend of Ford's from the Big Ten, recalled the words of Ohio State Coach Woody Hayes: "Three yards and a cloud of dust-the way to win football games." If Ford...