Word: schweikered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amused that he had withdrawn from consideration as Vice President in order to appease the conservatives, and now found Reagan turning to a running mate even more liberal than he. Said Rocky: "The pureblood conservatives-the ones I've come across-will not accept a voting record like Schweiker...
...phone call from Reagan at 9:05 p.m. Sunday. "I looked at my watch because I wanted to know the time in my life when I was most shocked." Helms called the ticket "a coalition with the widest wing span in all history" and said he might fight any Schweiker nomination...
...aides worked the phones to check the outcry. From his Santa Ynez Ranch, the candidate himself called some 100 Republicans. All things considered, Reagan's cajoling held his conservative lines remarkably well. Outside of Mississippi, there were no delegate defections from Reagan throughout the South. Accepting Schweiker, conceded Delegate Bob Beckham of Georgia, is akin to the dilemma of a father "whose favorite son marries a girl you don't particularly like-you just do the best you can with it." More sympathetically, Guy Hunt, chairman of the Alabama delegation, agreed that "the church ain't just...
...major parties divide along liberal-conservative lines, he switched from the Democratic Party in 1950 to push his conservative beliefs. Reed had professed to favor Reagan, but was thought by some insiders in the delegation to be awaiting an excuse to move to Ford. The selection of Schweiker gave Reed that excuse. After taking phone calls from both Ford and Reagan, he finally convened a press conference in which he denounced Reagan's selection of Schweiker as "wrong and dumb. It was an act of desperation. It was a double sin inasmuch as it didn't work." Concluding...
Regardless of what happens in Mississippi, simply holding the conservative lines would not be enough for Reagan. For the Schweiker ploy to work, it would have been necessary to win over delegates in New York, New Jersey and, notably, Pennsylvania. So far, that simply has not been happening. Schweiker insisted on Wednesday that he would pull as many as 20 Ford delegates from Pennsylvania into either the Reagan or uncommitted columns-but he did not produce a single name...