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...other seven are moderate conservatives, most of whom are better known as skilled managers than as innovative thinkers. Five can be considered members of the Eastern Republican Establishment. They are Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker, who will be Secretary of Health and Human Services, and four businessmen: Baldrige; Treasury Secretary-designate Donald Regan; William Casey, who will head the CIA; and Transportation Secretary-designate Drew Lewis. Two longtime California friends of Reagan's fill out the group: Caspar Weinberger, chosen as Secretary of Defense, and William French Smith, Attorney General-designate. Even they are not typical Sunbelt hardliners; in fact...
...Secretary of Health and Human Ser vices. Pennsylvania's Senator Richard S. Schweiker, 54, is a Reagan surprise choice - again. Just before the 1976 Republican Convention, Reagan stunned the Republican Party by naming Schweiker, then something of a liberal, as his prospective running mate. The maneuver made Schweiker an instant convert to strict conservatism, although it failed to win the nomination for Reagan. Schweiker's G.O.P. Senate colleagues regard him with reservations. Says one: "He's Mr. Aver age in ability, but he's tenacious and might make a very good Cabinet officer...
...most Pennsylvania elections, the battle for the seat vacated by Sen. Richard Schweiker (R.-Pa.) will become an East/West conflict. Democratic candidate Peter Flaherty, Pittsburgh's whiz-kid mayor during the early '70s counts on strong support from his hometown and the surrounding industrial valleys, while the Republican contender, former Philadelphia District Attorney Arlen Spector seems to maintain the allegiance of the densely-populated southeast...
Flaherty, riding the crest of his immense Pittsburgh popularity, challenged incumbent Schweiker in 1974. Although Western Pennsylvania's masses adored Flaherty for his staunch resistance to a host of special-interest groups, liberal Republican senators from Philadelphia don't fall easily in Pennsylvania. After Schweiker won handily, Flaherty became mayor for a while before going to Washington to work in President Carter's Justice Dept...
...candidates both have a history of losing. Flaherty, despite plaudits from many western Pennsylvania voters for having faced down Pittsburgh's municipal unions and cut the city payroll by about 25% while he was mayor in 1970-77, lost the Senate race against Schweiker in 1974 and the Governor's race against Republican Richard Thornburgh in 1978, partly because of insufficient support in Philadelphia. Specter, a household name in Philadelphia as a crusading district attorney in 1966-74, lost the 1976 Republican Senate primary to John Heinz and the 1978 gubernatorial primary to Thornburgh, partly because he could...