Word: tafts
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Certainly it was the most dramatic convention since the Republicans in 1952 chose Dwight Eisenhower over Robert Taft; indeed it was one of the most fascinating conventions of this century. As the G.O.P. assembled in Kansas City, a sitting President, albeit appointed as a result of Watergate, was facing revolt from the faithful in his own party. The battle was ideologically murky, for Gerald Ford and Challenger Ronald Reagan are both basically conservatives. In the damp Midwestern summer heat, Ford pleaded for support with a steady stream of delegates. He finally won this brawl on the precipice by a painfully...
...turned on his own party when he was disappointed by the conservative tendencies of his hand-picked successor, William Howard Taft. In the manner of Ronald Reagan, Roosevelt challenged a sitting President. He narrowly lost to Taft at the raucous G.O.P. Convention, which was described by Mr. Dooley as "a combination iv th' Chicago fire, St. Bartholomew's massacre, the battle iv th' Boyne, the life iv Jesse James and th' night iv th' big wind." Then T.R. formed a third party (Bull Moose) and ran in the election. By splitting the Republican vote, he enabled Democrat Woodrow Wilson...
...been to his labor constituents that the AFL-CIO'S political action group, COPE, awards Schweiker a 100% rating and made him the first Pennsylvania Republican Senator to win its endorsement for re-election (in 1974). Among other things, he voted to repeal Section 14-B of the Taft-Hartley Act, the right-to-work provision that allows states to outlaw the closed shop. He was a co-sponsor of the original Humphrey-Hawkins Bill, which would have committed the Government to take potentially inflationary budgetary steps to achieve full employment. The liberal Americans for Democratic Action gives...
...Died. Taft B. Schreiber, 68, art collector, Republican Party fund raiser and executive committee member of MCA Inc.; of complications following a blood transfusion; in Los Angeles. Originally an office boy, Schreiber organized MCA's motion picture division, now Universal Pictures. He raised money for Richard Nixon and former California Governor Ronald Reagan. Several years ago, he switched allegiance to President Gerald Ford and, at the time of his death, was national co-chairman of the President Ford Committee, a fund-raising group...
...will be either Jimmy Carter, the one-term Georgia Governor who has had the most spectacular political rise since Wendell Willkie in 1940; or Ronald Reagan, the two-term California Governor who staged the most successful challenge against an incumbent since Theodore Roosevelt took on William Howard Taft in 1912; or Gerald Ford, the longtime Michigan Congressman whom fate, Watergate and the 25th Amendment propelled into the Oval Office. Their status as survivors tells much about the changing state of the nation, the political parties and the voters' mood...