Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...thing, he had worked with a Vice President he admired, Nelson Rockefeller, and yet their two staffs had constantly quarreled. Now he and his family had worked out a fine life, and they were all enjoying themselves. He did not want to become "an election ploy." But as the group broke up, about 2 a.m., one participant turned back to Betty for her opinion. "Whatever is needed," she said...
Their first meeting was a general discussion of the various staff functions at the White House. Ford's people found the Reaganites unsure of how those functions work. Greenspan did most of the talking for the Ford group. There was no friction. Both sides tried to find a solution that would entice Ford. Concluded Casey: "We've got to get something together [on paper] to show you guys...
...White House. One specific point was that Ford would have daily supervisory authority, but not final power of decision, over the National Security Council, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Council of Economic Advisers. Reagan's team turned the paper over to the Ford group with the low-key comment: "Here's some ideas...
...which the Republican platform no longer supports, impressed many delegates as symbolic, an opening for Government intrusion into family life and a denial of the biblical description of the family. Paul Glover from Alaska, an evangelical minister and organizer for the Fundamentalist political group Moral Majority, said, "It's all in Genesis: God created Adam, whose rib provided the spare parts for the first loudspeaker (i.e., Eve)." Glover's wife Carolyn, a first-time delegate and a member of the national platform committee, chuckled. Glover earnestly went on: "The ERA as it is written is a blank check...
...congenial group. Says Evans: "A lot of people did not feel that Ronald Reagan should be challenging a sitting President." Among them were her children, who were a bit embarrassed by their mother's conservatism...