Word: ronald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republican Party, the season of long knives has already begun. Ronald Reagan this week will huddle with his closest advisers in West Los Angeles to settle on a long-range strategy for taking over the party's creaky national machinery. Stiff opposition will come from other Republicans with presidential ambitions, most notably former Governor John Connally of Texas, as well as liberals and moderates who fear that Reagan's move would cripple the party by narrowing its base...
...many voters would abstain not because they did not care but because they were disillusioned about government corruption and disappointed with the candidates. "I'm not apathetic about nonvoting," said Los Angeles Attorney Richard Deyo, 36, who had served as a volunteer for Republican stalwarts Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. "I'm emphatic about...
...presidential defeat, the Republican Party displayed an extraordinary capacity for comeback. Only last August political obituary writers were busily anticipating the G.O.P.'s demise as an effective part of the nation's elective system. In the wake of Watergate and the divisive struggle between Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, surveys showed that a paltry 22% of voting-age citizens were willing to identify themselves as Republicans. Ford's Silky Sullivan stretch run changed the equations even though it resulted not so much from his own strength as from Carter's weakness. But the Republicans' fairly...
...chicken campaign banquets and on Old Timers' Night at future national conventions (see box). But even though he will probably not run again for public office (he will be 67 in 1980), his surprising showing this November will enhance his stature as a party spokesman and senior adviser. Ronald Reagan will play a similar, if perhaps lesser role. He will be 69 in 1980-which may be too old to try again-but he will retain great influence, particularly through his weekly columns in 80 newspapers and his five-minute broadcasts every weekday on 187 radio stations. If Reagan...
...Carter, once the nomination was his, he too became less available to reporters, except on the run. They also found it hard to report on a candidate who preferred to stress traits (character, leadership) rather than tangible policies. Politicians who might have had something to say, like Ted Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and John Connally, spoke only enough so that they couldn't be accused of absenteeism...