Word: schweikered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pennsylvanians visited Washington last Thursday, stopping first to listen to Schweiker on Capitol Hill. He got a polite hearing with his plea that "if Governor Reagan can cross the sound barrier and ask me to join him, I can cross the sound barrier and join him in a coalition for victory." Even a longtime Schweiker friend and former campaign manager, Drew Lewis, urged support for Ford. James Stein, 21, once a Reagan admirer, said Reagan had lost "credibility" with him. "At least I know where Gerald Ford stands, and I can take him at his word...
After a 90-minute audience with the President at the White House, six delegates-who had been considered uncommitted-came out publicly for Ford. Reagan and Schweiker may meet jointly with Pennsylvania and New Jersey delegations this week to try to persuade delegates to switch; they also plan to address the Mississippi delegation...
Reagan's aides insist that the strategy will pay off before the convention. Campaign Manager Sears argued that the plan all along was to spend the first week after the Schweiker announcement just explaining the odd coupling. In an implicit admission that the Reagan cause only days earlier had seemed lost, he claimed: "People are saying, 'Now we really can't tell who's going to win.' " Sears seemed to be hearing voices inaudible to almost everyone else...
...same. Ford told TIME that there is "a possibility" he will reveal his decision before the convention. Much of the speculation centered on former Texas Governor John Connally. Connally, long stubbornly neutral in the Ford-Reagan battle, flew off to Washington the day Reagan announced his choice of Schweiker. Reagan, he had long ago concluded, was an intellectual and political lightweight who had now made a bad miscalculation...
Certainly, Reagan's embracing of a liberal has opened Ford's Veep options. It is hard to see how the Reaganites can complain if Ford chooses anyone to the right of Schweiker-which includes just about every prominent Republican...