Word: schweikered
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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...
...freshly combed and suited up for a triumphal appearance they would never make, they still seemed an implausible pair. Ronald Reagan was surrounded by his gleaming staff of Californians, and so the anguish of the moment in which he finally lost the nomination was somewhat obscured. But Richard Schweiker was alone; without friends and sycophants, he showed his dismay...
...realization that the ticket was a bust had been evident to Schweiker for at least 24 hours. As soon as Gerald Ford won the vice-presidential rules fight the previous evening, Schweiker had telephoned Reagan with an offer to resign. It was shortly after midnight, and an aide told Schweiker the Governor had gone to sleep. Schweiker urged him to check the bedroom because he had something important to say. He was asked to wait until the next morning, and at breakfast he finally told Reagan, who quickly declined his offer to withdraw. "I'm not going to leave...
...Reagan the danger of the decision had always been personal: that he would lose his cherished credibility. He had at first described the Schweiker move as a way to broaden the party's base for the fall campaign. Now, with the nomination decided, he explained the deal somewhat differently. "We were dead in the water," he conceded. "We had to get some motion, get some delegates...
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...