Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegates and stale coffee is hard work. That may be a problem for Reagan, says one of his advance men: "You can't schedule him too hard. And he runs down if he doesn't get those eight hours' sleep." How then did Reagan win the governorship twice without exhaustive efforts? The answer: His two opponents, Pat Brown and Jesse Unruh, were easy setups for him, and it was the staff that burned the midnight oil. An adviser who helped direct Reagan's 1968 presidential fling says: "Things have come pretty easy for the Governor. Really...
...along with "I do not choose to run," "If elected, I will not serve," and "I would rather be in my grave than in politics," let us teach our children the ringing disclaimer of Jerry Brown: "Are you kidding? I think even the governorship is a pain in the ass." Chester Prince Ambridge...
...moment, the talk of last fall that he might run for President has died down. Asked about his presidential ambitions, he replied: "Are you kidding? I think even the governorship is a pain in the ass." Politics is obviously not the Governor's overriding interest, and for that reason he may prove to be less than a skilled politician. Still in the seminary in many ways, he argues that "government isn't a religion. It shouldn't be treated as such. It's not God; it's humans, fallible people, feathering their nest most...
...four years he also made 1,800 speeches throughout the state. He captured the Georgia governorship on his second try, in 1970. He won election by appealing to the downhome, antibusiness inclinations of his rural constituents and to the antibusing sentiments that they share with Georgia's urban working-class whites. Only 7% of the state's blacks voted for him in the primary, but 61% supported him in the general election. He set the tone for his governorship in his inaugural speech to Georgians: "I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination...
...exuberant James Longley proclaimed that evening, had been "the best day of my life." But the next day was even better. Within 24 hours, the 50-year-old insurance executive, who in winning the governorship of Maine became the first independent to capture a statehouse since 1937, found himself a national celebrity...