Word: mates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Panama Canal. At 67, he could offer the 69-year-old Reagan no help on the age issue; some voters might even have found a Reagan-Ford ticket slightly out of tune with the G.O.P. convention slogan: TOGETHER?A NEW BEGINNING. With Bush, 56, as Reagan's running mate, the G.O.P. ticket may not be so grand, but it is also...
...Illinois and Robert Bauman of Maryland) and two Governors (Pierre du Pont of Delaware and Charles Thone of Nebraska) had no inkling that they were stepping into G.O.P. history. They were there for a long-scheduled appointment to give Reagan their advice on who would be his best running mate. Most of the group favored Bush. But Reagan sounded skeptical. He asked just how Bush would help the ticket...
...weeks after his unexpected victory in the Iowa caucuses in January, Bush failed to define a set of positions?"to go from George Who to George What," in Baker's words. Such positions might have made Bush seem a clear-cut alternative to Reagan, but also an incompatible running mate. And even after Bush suffered a stunning defeat in New Hampshire in February, he steadfastly refused advice from some of his staff to criticize Reagan harshly, though that is the standard strategy for reviving a faltering campaign. That refusal was widely ascribed to Ivy Leaguer Bush's disinclination...
During the primary campaign, Bush's background hurt him. Publisher William Loeb effectively sneered at him in New Hampshire as a "clean-fingernails Republican." But now that Bush is the running mate, his credentials ought to help. He brings to the ticket Washington expertise and foreign policy experience, two things that Reagan conspicuously lacks. More fundamental, Bush appeals to a sector of the electorate crucial to a Reagan victory: voters who are receptive to a conservative appeal but have long distrusted Reagan as a potential far-right extremist...
...Gerald Ford will be his selection as his vice-presidential running mate ... They are going to come to this convention hall tonight to appear together on this platform ... to announce that Ford will run with...