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Campaigning with Reagan also meant hectic hours for National Political Correspondent Robert Ajemian, who interviewed the candidate in a car driving through Shreveport, La., then boarded a plane that blew out a tire, and finally reached New York at 4 a.m. to deliver his Q. and A. with Reagan. In Washington, Dean Fischer covered the Ford side of this week's cover stories...
...replaced by cold fear that the nomination might be lost. By contrast, Reagan, who had seemed almost embarrassed in victory and downplayed his successes at first, switched tactics. A day after his triple wins, he held a post-midnight meeting with his campaign advisers in a hotel room at Shreveport, La. Explained one of the group: "Reagan decided it was time to start sounding like a winner. We don't want our modest public expectations to get in the way of what's happening." At planeside in Shreveport the next morning, Reagan for the first time predicted that...
...buss baton twirlers. Last week in Nebraska and Louisiana, he stood back as enthusiasts held up infants for a smooch, explaining: "I come in contact with so many people in the course of a day, and there are so many strange bugs going around." Groused a disappointed father in Shreveport: "Damn. The kid has already had all those bugs, but he's never been kissed by a presidential candidate...
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...Buses to the North for the resettlement of blacks, funded by the White Citizens Councils of New Orieans. Shreveport, and Little Rock...