Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Regular Cars. Then Carter spoke movingly of the problems of the poor. "Public servants like me and Jerry Brown have a special responsibility to bypass the big shots, including you and people like you, and like I was, and make a concerted effort to understand people who are poor, black, speak a foreign language, who are not well educated, who are inarticulate, who are timid, who have some monumental problem, and at the same time run the Government in a competent way . . . so that those services that are so badly needed can be delivered...
...Nancy spoke wistfully of lost opportunities. It still rankles that the President delayed so long in restoring the federal matching funds for the candidates last spring. "Ronnie joined the Democratic National Committee to push for reinstatement of the funds. Every candidate joined in-except Mr. Ford. There are lots of things that, looking back, we might have done differently. Maybe if we'd stayed an extra day in Florida or had money to go into Ohio, where Ronnie got 45% of the vote without campaigning. But we had no money. No money." She keeps thinking about those...
...care, honey, we did what no one else ever did." There was a pause, and then Reagan thanked the staff for their hard work. "The long ride is over," he said quietly. When he turned his attention back to the screen, his chief aide Mike Deaver spoke from across the room and suggested the Governor might also want to thank Schweiker for all he had done. Reagan quickly realized the oversight and told Schweiker it had taken courage for him to join up. "Well," said Schweiker, looking grateful for any recognition, "the country is the loser...
...next day Reagan's emotions began to show. He almost came to tears in a private appearance before the California delegation. Then a few minutes later-with Schweiker at his side-Reagan was downstairs in front of his workers. He spoke movingly of rejecting expediency and not compromising on principles. A nonparticipating observer could not help wondering about these appeals, for Reagan was standing right next to his most blatant expedient choice. "Don't get cynical," he told them, some of whom by now were crying. "Look at yourselves and realize there are millions of Americans out there...
Back in his suite, Reagan spoke about the future-and, as always, of his credibility. "I still consider myself a nonpolitician, no matter what people think of the Schweiker selection," he said. Now it seemed an almost absurd claim. "My concern through this whole thing," he went on, "has been to retain my credibility." Reagan thought he had done that, but others saw it differently. Said a longtime political supporter in California: "He's lost his place as the high priest of the right. After Schweiker, all he can do is preach unity, not purity." Reagan intends to start...