Word: reubin
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Summoning the Florida legislature into special session, Governor Reubin Askew proposed returning immediately to Eastern Standard Time in most of the state (the northwestern Florida pan handle is in the Central time zone). Said Askew: "Any amount of disruption in commerce would be small indeed when compared to the life of even a single child...
...most of the effort to reinstate the death penalty has concentrated on eliminating "arbitrariness" by making death mandatory for certain crimes. A Florida commission named by Governor Reubin Askew recently recommended that the death penalty be required for anyone convicted of a premeditated murder or a murder in connection with rape, kidnaping, hijacking, bombing or arson. A group of 19 state attorneys general is now busy drafting proposals ranging from a U.S. constitutional amendment to a model law with a mandatory death sentence for such crimes as murder by contract or the killing of a policeman. At least ten state...
...dropping of Eagleton because of the uproar over his medical history was virtually unprecedented.* The rebuffs encountered by McGovern as he sought a reassuring replacement only added to the party humiliation. McGovern wooed them and practically begged, but one by one, Edward Kennedy, Abraham Ribicoff, Hubert Humphrey, Reubin Askew and Edmund Muskie all declined for various reasons their party's second highest honor. The selection of Shriver, a personable Kennedy in-law and former head of the Peace Corps and Office of Economic Opportunity (see following page), may turn out to be a good choice, but had the public...
Less dependent upon the old coalitions and seeking to appeal to what Florida Governor Reubin Askew called in the keynote speech "a coalition of protest," the nominee's advisers see his specific proposals as part of an attempt to respond to the same kind of discontent and desire for change that Alabama Governor George Wallace so bitingly articulated but did not satisfy. Thus, a basic thrust of the McGovern campaign will be to portray Nixon as the champion of bigness-citing, for example, the Administration's coziness with ITT officials-and as the most prominent representative...
George Wallace also remained, an unpredictable presence with the new and curious respectability of his near martyrdom. That night as the delegates convened again, Florida's Governor, Reubin Askew, 43, delivered a feeling keynote address. "It is impossible," he said, "to look upon this group without feeling that one has seen the face of America. Let us remember that this nation was founded on diversity, that our differences can be a source of strength as well as weakness...