Word: mates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What if President Ford were to pick a liberal Northerner as his running mate...
...Schweiker's devotion to religion and his family. According to an aide, Reagan concluded that Schweiker was "a guy he can live with." Yet on many of the topics discussed, the conversation was strained-until Reagan said, "Dick, I'd like to have you as my running mate." After that, things went smoothly...
Schweiker was grilled further that night by some of Reagan's close friends, including Justin Dart, the chief of Dart Industries, and Holmes Tuttle, a millionaire Ford dealer. They were satisfied. Tuttle rationalized: "A running mate does not have to be a Charlie McCarthy. Senator Schweiker voted for some social-reform bills that haven't worked, but he realizes now that they should be changed." Added Dart: "No one should think that the Governor is changing his basic posture. If anybody is changing, it is Senator Schweiker...
Nelson Rockefeller did not seem overly amused that he had withdrawn from consideration as Vice President in order to appease the conservatives, and now found Reagan turning to a running mate even more liberal than he. Said Rocky: "The pureblood conservatives-the ones I've come across-will not accept a voting record like Schweiker...
...other hand, Writer William Buckley argues in a column to be published this week: "The ideological coloration of one's running mate isn't a part of one's 'philosophy.' It is a matter of adaptation to political reality. Roosevelt had his Garner; Adlai Stevenson his Jim Crow running mate, John Sparkman; John Kennedy his Lyndon Johnson-it is a tradition as old as Jackson and Calhoun." The Buckley line was echoed by other sophisticated political augurs. It did not take into account, however, the fact that Reagan, unlike the other candidates mentioned, had spectacularly...