Word: schweikered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have chosen the distinguished United States Senator, the Honorable Richard Schweiker...
...Monday morning. At that point, things began to happen. Former California Governor Ronald Reagan convened his expected press conference at noon E.D.T., then proceeded to stun his party and the nation with the unexpected: his bold, perhaps desperate gamble for needed convention votes by naming liberal Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker as his vice-presidential running mate. By midweek, the word was flowing in by telephone and telex from our correspondents: Reagan had angered conservatives; yet he had failed to attract moderates. His bizarre gamble had not worked. TIME's editors decided that the sudden rush of events demanded cover...
...most astonishing and bizarre turnabouts in a campaign full of surprises. President Ford was at a White House staff meeting when he got the tip that California's conservative Reagan was about to name as his vice-presidential choice Pennsylvania's Schweiker-just about the most liberal of all of the party's Northern Senators and a man who opposes many of the things that Reagan supports (see box). Ford looked stunned, then puzzled. "I thought someone was pulling my leg," he explained later...
Reagan's wild gamble in naming Schweiker was couched in lofty terms of unifying the party for victory in November, but it was a much more naked move than that. His search for delegates had been stalled, and Ford was making inroads in delegations from Hawaii to Mississippi. So the challenger made a bold reach to the left in hopes that he might pick up some of the "soft" Ford delegates in such states as Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. The calculated risk was that Reagan's conservative ideologues would grumble, but finally stay with him, while...
...early as 1969, he sent a prophetic message on behalf of Republican moderates to President Nixon, who had been ignoring them. Mathias warned, "You don't need us now, but you will later." Mathias was an early critic of the Viet Nam War. With Pennsylvania's Richard Schweiker, he was one of only two Republican Senators on Nixon's celebrated enemies list - a point in which he now takes pride...