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...VICE PRESIDENCY. Reagan's selection of liberal Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker had failed to shake loose many pro-Ford delegates in the less conservative delegations, but it had raised the Veep issue as an emotional battleground. Reagan's bold manager Sears pushed for a rule which would force Ford to name his running mate by 9 a.m. Wednesday, the day of the presidential balloting. Some Ford delegates were eager to have the President put all his cards on the table too. Delegation leaders in the Northeast and pro-Ford delegates from Maine sought assurances in particular that Ford...
...last week. Ford just puffed on his pipe. He asked the S.O.S. and Chowder and Marching Club (Republican hail fellows from Congress) to the White House for a chat. Then he sat back and listened as about 40 of them vented their views on whom he should select as a running mate and how he should run against Carter. Ford listened and smiled. One man present, an old college friend of Ford's from the Big Ten, recalled the words of Ohio State Coach Woody Hayes: "Three yards and a cloud of dust-the way to win football games...
that in the case of an appointment for a period of two years or longer, Harvard University, at its own discretion, will select such a person and so notify the Prime Minister of Australia of the name of the person it intends to appoint to the Chair in Australian Studies...
...Ford advisers have been split over whether the President should select a conservative vice-presidential candidate, the better to attack the liberal Carter-Mondale slate, or whether he should pick a moderate in hope of attracting independent and Democratic voters. Connally, with his ties to Texas oil interests and his wheeler-dealer image, might not have enough appeal beyond the confines of the Republican right...
...importance of the issue at trial has been somewhat obscured by the time, money and verbiage spent on the case. It took no less than 17 weeks to select the jurors (who have mercifully not been sequestered). So far, the trial has produced 22,150 pages of transcript, plus 546 exhibits of evidence, ranging from the three Winchester rifles used by guards when Jackson was killed to the medical headache chart of one of the defendants. The prosecution has called 34 witnesses, while the defense has countered with 49, many of whom support the San Quentin Six's contention...