Word: michigan
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Other top candidates for appointment are Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, who gave Carter crucial backing in the Michigan primary; Jesse Hill, president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Co.; Herman Russell, an Atlanta contractor; Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind.; John Cox, a Delta Airlines consultant who was the only well-known black to support Carter for Georgia Governor in 1970; Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. Many others are hoping for a berth. Quips a black Democratic official in Atlanta: "Half the blacks here already have their bags packed to come to Washington...
Moderate and liberal Republicans will meet informally in a location still to be decided next week to work out strategy for what some expect to be a tooth-and-nail fight with the conservatives. Michigan Governor William Milliken, who is organizing the skull session, believes that a takeover of the G.O.P.'s national machinery by the Reaganite right wing could only narrow the party's constituency; he argues that to survive nationally, the Republicans must broaden their base of support, as the party did in his state. Said he: "This is the reason we have won so many...
...life: to gain the nation's highest office on his own, not to go down in history as an accidental President. Unprepared for defeat, Ford has no plans for the future. He has mused about taking an academic post, perhaps at his alma mater, the University of Michigan. His friends in Grand Rapids hope he will visit there often, but they realize that he is likely to remain in Washington, the city that has absorbed so much of his life and energy. He might return to law. A position in a prestigious firm would let him stay in touch...
...MICHIGAN: SINNER BUT A WINNER...
...This country doesn't elect saints to the U.S. Congress," cried a union supporter of Democratic Congressman Don Riegle, 38. Michigan voters accepted that easily supportable claim. Riegle, whose tape-recorded pillow talk with an unpaid former woman staffer highlighted the campaign (TIME, Nov. 1), will succeed the retiring Philip Hart when the Senate convenes next January. For a time, the incident that surfaced in the anti-Riegle Detroit News seemed to tip the election in the direction of Republican Congressman Marvin Esch...