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...records as the Philadelphia sound. That music today dominates the rhythm-and-blues field much the way Motown did in the 1960s. The Philadelphia sound, notable for its honking horns and syrupy strings, is most familiar perhaps from the hits of the O'Jays, Billy Paul and Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. All of these performers record for the mini-giant of the city's musical scene, Philadelphia International Records. When Drummer Young settled down after his first big job, touring Europe in 1967-68 with Stevie Wonder, it was as a member of Philadelphia International...
Robert Hartmann, White House Counsellor and chief speechwriter, was given the assignment of collecting basic ideas from Cabinet members, senior White House staffers, campaign advisers, friendly Senators and Congressmen and old political pals like Melvin Laird and Bryce Harlow. Once the suggestions were compiled, Hartmann went over them with the President, who meanwhile had been studying every presidential acceptance speech since 1948 and jotting down ideas of his own on a yellow notepad...
...advisers over coffee and nightcaps in his hotel suite until shortly after 5 a.m. the night of his nomination. The nine: Griffin, Rockefeller, White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney, Texas Senator John Tower, Campaign Pollster Robert Teeter, Campaign Strategist Stuart Spencer, Counsellor John Marsh, former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Veteran G.O.P. Presidential Adviser Bryce Harlow. When the consultants adjourned, exhausted, they were still uncertain whether the President had made up his mind. Not until they reconvened four hours later did Ford's final choice emerge, and then only obliquely: in his questions, the President kept coming back...