Word: schardt
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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ATLANTA Correspondents Arlie Schardt and Roger Williams, who have spent the past six weeks traveling with George Wallace, have listened so often to the basically unchanging content of the candidate's one speech that either man could probably deliver it himself without notes, But much more was needed for this week's cover story, written by Gerald Clarke and edited by Michael Demarest. It was difficult to collect the material because Wallace is a peculiarly uncooperative subject for an interview. Most of the time he is friendly enough; the trouble is, he volunteers little beyond "The Speech...
...good guy with a little-known sense of humor, somewhere between Will Rogers' and Russell Bakers'." Fentress, with Nixon, is impressed by his perfectly programmed movements. Hugh Sidey and John Austin are also with Nixon, and Charles Eisendrath is traveling with Agnew, Hays Gorey with Humphrey. Arlie Schardt and Roger Williams cover George Wallace, whom they find surprisingly amiable in private but unexciting to cover because he sticks to one speech and seldom bothers with position papers or shifts in strategy...
...commissions. Washington's Lansing Lamont covered Rockefeller, and Simmons Fentress stayed with Nixon. At Convention Hall and in the Miami Beach hotels, Los Angeles Bureau Chief Marshall Berges stuck close to Candidate Ronald Reagan; Chicago's Loye Miller concentrated on the Middle West; Atlanta's Arlie Schardt stayed with the Southern delegations. Nine correspondents poked into every aspect of the Nixon-Agnew nomination, while New York staffers gathered firsthand impressions for the stories they would be working on later...