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...same. Ford told TIME that there is "a possibility" he will reveal his decision before the convention. Much of the speculation centered on former Texas Governor John Connally. Connally, long stubbornly neutral in the Ford-Reagan battle, flew off to Washington the day Reagan announced his choice of Schweiker. Reagan, he had long ago concluded, was an intellectual and political lightweight who had now made a bad miscalculation...
Certainly, Reagan's embracing of a liberal has opened Ford's Veep options. It is hard to see how the Reaganites can complain if Ford chooses anyone to the right of Schweiker-which includes just about every prominent Republican...
...Ford moves into the convention with the nomination nearly guaranteed, he enjoys the prospect of far less blood-letting than was expected before Reagan's blunder. While Reagan was acting from personal motives in choosing Schweiker, last week's failure of that strategy may have served the G.O.P. well by contributing to the kind of unity Reagan professed to be seeking...
...assess the impact of the Schweiker announcement on your own prospects for nomination...
...votes before the Schweiker announcement. I'm certain that since then our total has gone up. We can't be precise on how many, but I know it is rather significant...