Word: schweikered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ronald Reagan and Richard Schweiker sat side by side in the Governor's Kansas City hotel suite watching the presidential roll call, they looked almost as uncomfortable as they had three weeks before when they announced their partnership. There with them was TIME National Political Correspondent Robert Ajemian. His report...
...VICE PRESIDENCY. Reagan's selection of liberal Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker had failed to shake loose many pro-Ford delegates in the less conservative delegations, but it had raised the Veep issue as an emotional battleground. Reagan's bold manager Sears pushed for a rule which would force Ford to name his running mate by 9 a.m. Wednesday, the day of the presidential balloting. Some Ford delegates were eager to have the President put all his cards on the table too. Delegation leaders in the Northeast and pro-Ford delegates from Maine sought assurances in particular that Ford...
Reagan's narrow base is explainable after a long season of careless talk about cutting $90 billion from the federal budget and getting tough with the Russians in Africa, plus his new-found compatibility with Liberal Senator Richard Schweiker...
...most intriguing of the 1976 political campaign managers. Smoother and brighter than Ford's Rogers Morton and the departed Bo Callaway, far more seasoned and self-assured than Jimmy Carter's Hamilton Jordan, Sears is more a technician than an ideologue. This perhaps explains the Schweiker ploy: to Sears, Schweiker's potential influence on Northeast delegations was a plus that far outweighed the negatives of his liberal philosophy...
That huge harvest of Ford delegates made the Schweiker gamble Reagan's last hope: unless uncommitted delegates or unenthusiastic Ford delegates in those big states could be won over to Reagan, the challenger could not possibly amass the needed 1,130 votes. Most Republicans agree that if Sears does not emerge from the convention as the goat of the G.O.P., he may well emerge as its genius...