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...press also appears to have missed the boat on Reagan's selection of Schweiker as his running-mate. Analysts were quick to label it a disaster, and the Times keeps on inserting this idiotic quip into all its stories about how Reagan attempts to show himself as less conservative than he is portrayed when in front of the Pennsylvania delegation and Schweiker tries to convince Mississippi delegates that he's less liberal than they think...
Since he came to Congress in 1960 from suburban Philadelphia's Main Line 13th District, Schweiker has steered a left-of-center course that has helped make him one of the state's biggest Republican votegetters. So attentive has he been to his labor constituents that the AFL-CIO'S political action group, COPE, awards Schweiker a 100% rating and made him the first Pennsylvania Republican Senator to win its endorsement for re-election (in 1974). Among other things, he voted to repeal Section 14-B of the Taft-Hartley Act, the right-to-work provision that...
...Schweiker, a founding member of the Senate's Wednesday Club of liberal and moderate Republicans, supported Medicare and federal rent subsidies. He was one of the earliest Republican doves. He voted against the Nixon Administration on the ABM and on the Supreme Court nominations of G. Harrold Carswell and Clement Haynsworth. Schweiker also voted to override every one of Nixon's 14 vetoes. For such behavior, he earned a place on Nixon's enemies list. Only on the issues of abortion, gun control and busing-all of which he opposes-has Schweiker deviated from the liberal canon...
...tile manufacturer, Schweiker grew up in the tiny southeastern Pennsylvania town of Worcester. His family is Pennsylvania Dutch and belongs to the small (2,600 members) Central Schwenkfelder Church, a Protestant sect with origins in Silesia. At 17, he enlisted in the Navy and served on the carrier Tarawa in World War II, then returned to Pennsylvania. After two years at Slippery Rock State College, he transferred to Penn State, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He joined his father's business, eventually becoming vice president for sales...
Working in the Community Chest, Boy Scouts and the Jaycees, Schweiker built a foundation for a political career. In 1960, he defeated conservative Republican John Lafore in a congressional primary, then won the seat in November. After four terms in the House, Schweiker went after the office of liberal Democratic Senator Joseph Clark and came from far behind to upset him by 282,000 votes, even while Hubert Humphrey was carrying Pennsylvania in the national election...