Word: schweikered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pause, and then Reagan thanked the staff for their hard work. "The long ride is over," he said quietly. When he turned his attention back to the screen, his chief aide Mike Deaver spoke from across the room and suggested the Governor might also want to thank Schweiker for all he had done. Reagan quickly realized the oversight and told Schweiker it had taken courage for him to join up. "Well," said Schweiker, looking grateful for any recognition, "the country is the loser...
...person to call on the loser. Another agreement that was reached that very afternoon: Ford would not raise the subject of Reagan's availability for the vice presidency at the meeting. Reagan wanted to maintain any leverage he could on Ford's final choice the next day. Schweiker was not invited to stay for the meeting and was ushered out with the rest of the staff...
...next day Reagan's emotions began to show. He almost came to tears in a private appearance before the California delegation. Then a few minutes later-with Schweiker at his side-Reagan was downstairs in front of his workers. He spoke movingly of rejecting expediency and not compromising on principles. A nonparticipating observer could not help wondering about these appeals, for Reagan was standing right next to his most blatant expedient choice. "Don't get cynical," he told them, some of whom by now were crying. "Look at yourselves and realize there are millions of Americans out there...
Back in his suite, Reagan spoke about the future-and, as always, of his credibility. "I still consider myself a nonpolitician, no matter what people think of the Schweiker selection," he said. Now it seemed an almost absurd claim. "My concern through this whole thing," he went on, "has been to retain my credibility." Reagan thought he had done that, but others saw it differently. Said a longtime political supporter in California: "He's lost his place as the high priest of the right. After Schweiker, all he can do is preach unity, not purity." Reagan intends to start...
...RICHARD SCHWEIKER, 50, Reagan's implausible liberal choice as a running mate, helped the Californian not at all and damaged his own great ambitions to become an important party leader or, one day, President. By eagerly embracing almost all of Reagan's positions and promising to disavow the previous pro-labor stands that had made him a darling of the AFL-CIO, Schweiker came across as an opportunist. He spent most of his time in the campaign vainly trying to explain his complete flipflop...