Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about to discuss the vice presidency with him, the former Governor told Los Angeles Times Reporter Richard Bergholz in an interview on Saturday morning: "The compatibility of the political philosophies of the presidential and vice-presidential nominees is preeminently important. I don't rule out balancing the ticket geographically ... Philosophically is the only place where I say it is hypocritical to choose some one of the opposite view...
...Later Lott switched to Ford. North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms had been given advance word in a phone call from Reagan at 9:05 p.m. Sunday. "I looked at my watch because I wanted to know the time in my life when I was most shocked." Helms called the ticket "a coalition with the widest wing span in all history" and said he might fight any Schweiker nomination...
...more. New Hampshire's ultra-conservative Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. insisted that "this type of deal exemplifies why politics and politicians are held in such low esteem by all Americans. I will not assist in selling this opportunistic team to the Republicans." Then he cashed in his ticket for Kansas City...
Washington Governor Daniel Evans, 50, could bring some of the Reagan Far West popularity and non-Washington image to the ticket. Illinois Congressman John Anderson, 54, a moderate, is popular in the House and Midwest. U.N. Ambassador and former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, 59, is an able Ford friend and confidant who is also highly popular with moderates, intellectuals and Easterners; but his name evokes memories of the bitter 1964 Republican Convention, when he made a late and abortive effort to block Barry Goldwater's nomination...
CHRISTOPHER ("KIT") BOND, 37, popular Governor of Missouri, who would bring to the ticket a fresh face, unscarred by scandal-and not identified with Washington. Bond has trimmed Missouri's 87 state agencies to 14. Wealthy, self-assured, he has successfully fought against graft, and is so middle-of-the-road that both Reagan and Rockefeller have campaigned for him. Liabilities: limited experience and the fact that his elevation to the ticket could cost the G.O.P. the governorship...