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Election Day will end months of campaigning, not only by the candidates but also by a pursuing army of some 200 reporters (see THE PRESS). To represent TIME, Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart assigned two teams of Washington staffers: Dean Fischer, Strobe Talbott and Christopher Ogden to the Ford-Dole campaign; Stanley Cloud, Bonnie Angelo and John F. Stacks to Carter-Mondale-and sometimes the correspondents have switched from one campaign to the other to get a fresh perspective. For this week's issue, both candidates gave exclusive interviews to TIME (see THE NATION...
...kind of character witness. Just as Plains, Ga. (pop. 683), is typical of the Deep South, small-town style, Grand Rapids, Mich. (pop. 195,000), epitomizes many of the enduring qualities that typify the Midwest. TIME Detroit Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold visited Grand Rapids, while White House Correspondent Strobe Talbott talked with Ford's friends from his home town on the White House staff. Their report...
...Midwestern origins, conservative instincts, self-made careers-and yet seemed so far apart. Now that they were down to the climactic moment, what were the moods and attitudes of the Republican contenders? To find out, TIME asked its correspondents who have followed them most closely in the campaign. Strobe Talbott reported on Gerald Ford and Dean Fischer on Ronald Reagan (see box next page...
Flying home on Air Force One from his encouraging visit to the Mississippi delegates in Jackson, President Ford relaxed with a martini at his side and a pipe in his hand and talked politics with TIME White House Correspondent Strobe Talbott. His thoughts...
...Gergen put it to TIME'S Strobe Talbott: "We've all been concerned that the President's record, what he stands for and his vision for what he wants to do have not been getting through to the American public. This reorganization is an attempt to make the entire White House more professional in getting those messages across." Gergen's big problem, of course, is that the G.O.P. Convention is only three weeks off, and his boss still leads Challenger Ronald Reagan for the presidential nomination by an extremely narrow margin. At week...