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...have chosen the distinguished United States Senator, the Honorable Richard Schweiker...
...Monday morning. At that point, things began to happen. Former California Governor Ronald Reagan convened his expected press conference at noon E.D.T., then proceeded to stun his party and the nation with the unexpected: his bold, perhaps desperate gamble for needed convention votes by naming liberal Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker as his vice-presidential running mate. By midweek, the word was flowing in by telephone and telex from our correspondents: Reagan had angered conservatives; yet he had failed to attract moderates. His bizarre gamble had not worked. TIME's editors decided that the sudden rush of events demanded cover...
...early as 1969, he sent a prophetic message on behalf of Republican moderates to President Nixon, who had been ignoring them. Mathias warned, "You don't need us now, but you will later." Mathias was an early critic of the Viet Nam War. With Pennsylvania's Richard Schweiker, he was one of only two Republican Senators on Nixon's celebrated enemies list - a point in which he now takes pride...
Some responsible critics of the commission feel that the CIA has not yet revealed everything it knows about Oswald. Republican Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania strongly suspects that Oswald was some kind of intelligence agent, if not for the CIA, then for the Soviet Union. He thinks that there are too many mysteries about Os wald's defection to Russia, his 32 months of life there (from October 1959 to June 1962), his marriage to Marina and his quick acceptance for re-entry into the U.S. with a State Department cash loan and a renewed passport. Schweiker...
...Schweiker and Hart are considering holding public hearings on the FBI and Oswald. For the time being, the Senators intend to conduct their probe privately. But in the unlikely event that the subcommittee turns up solid evidence that discredits the Warren Commission's conclusion that Oswald acted alone, the two Senators will propose that Congress reopen the entire investigation into the assassination of John Kennedy...