Word: mates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Will Run. The choice of Rockefeller set off speculation that Ford would run for President in 1976 and Rockefeller would be his running mate. Rather than discourage such talk about his future, Ford disclosed through Press Secretary J.F. terHorst that he "probably" will run in 1976, though he gave no indication as to whether Rockefeller would also be on the ticket. The declaration was a striking break with the tradition that a President wait until election year to reveal his intentions. An aide close to the President explained that Ford's competitive instincts led him to emulate Presidents Truman...
...years later, at the age of 39, Nixon was nominated to be Dwight Eisenhower's running mate on the G.O.P. ticket. In The Making of the President 1960, Theodore White quoted a Republican strategist as explaining: "We took Dick Nixon not because he was right-wing or left-wing but because we were tired, and he came from California...
...Carnegie. He built support among blacks as an early Republican proponent of civil rights, ordered integration of state-owned parks and beaches, and ended Baltimore's ban on black public-transit motormen. As the man who nominated Eisenhower in 1952, he was a serious contender for the running mate's slot...
...mills in an effort to forestall a strike and when he fired General Douglas MacArthur. Though Morse fervently supported Dwight Eisenhower for the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1952, he became disillusioned by Ike's cautious civil rights stand and by his choice of Richard Nixon as a running mate. Switching to the Democratic candidate, Adlai Stevenson, Morse bolted the Republican Party...
From the time he was first elected Governor in 1942, there was talk that he might some day be President. He led a favorite-son delegation to the 1944, '48 and '52 G.O.P. conventions and let himself be talked into being Thomas Dewey's running mate in 1948, though he had no real interest in the vice presidency: "I can't spend my years sitting up there calling balls and strikes in the Senate." Warren was always the political independent. Even in 1952, when Eisenhower needed only nine more votes to beat Robert A. Taft...