Convention strains to deep six Nixon era at GOP gathering
Kansas City delegates avoid Nixon name at the Republican National Convention amid Watergate memories. The platform excludes Nixon, while Republicans push a post Watergate reform agenda and counter-attack Democrats on ethics and past scandals. Senator Howard Baker Jr. and Rep. John Rhodes lead the drive to focus on clean government and current issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter R. Mears
Kansas City, Mo
Kansas City
Richard M. Nixon
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Reagan
Carter
Ford
Barber Conable
New York
Elizabeth Ray
Miss Ray
Ohio
Wayne Hays
House Administration
John J. Rhodes
Arizona
House One
Congress
Republican
White House
Rhodes
Howard H. Baker Jr
Legislative Branch
Baker
Maine Delegates Meet First Lady Ford in Private Session
Two Maine Republican delegates Hattie Bickmore and Marjorie Hutchings spent about 35 minutes with First Lady Betty Ford in Kansas City Missouri. They discussed shoes shopping and politics and considered Anne Armstrong as a potential vice president endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Armstrong
Kansas City, Mo
Maine
Anes Ford
Hattie M. Bickmore
Marjorie C. Hutchings
Mrs. Ford
Ford
Bickmore
GOP
Ford forces yield on platform to soothe Reagan wing
At the convention Ford supporters conceded the Reagan amendment to the foreign policy plank after hours of negotiations. Rockefeller said he spoke with the President as the decision was made to accept the amendment. The platform also endorses the Equal Rights Amendment despite opposition on the floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold R. Sterling
Memphis, Tenn
Ronald Reagan
Platform Committee
Ford
Nixon
Jimmy Carter
Reagan
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Ford Super
Henry A. Kissinger
Soviet Union
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Rockefeller
Notice Clarifies Identity in Biddeford Pool Event
A notice states that ROBERT E. BOUTHOT of 14 North Ave Camp Ellis, son of the Anger's Market owner, was not the person involved in an unlawful Biddeford Pool event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford Pool
Robert E. Bouthot
North Ave
Camp Ellis
Anger
Mkt
Pregnant brides stay with husbands in many cases study says
Washington AP reports government findings on premarital childbirth show 81.6 percent of women who married after pregnancy remained with their husbands by the 1970 census. The report also notes illegitimacy rates rising among Black women and lower rates among Whites, with expert commentary on birth control impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Henry Smith
Census Bureau
Joy Dryfoos
Planned Parenthood
Alan Guttmacher Institute
New York
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Lake Geneva, Wis
U.S
Mother Nature
Vic’s
Main Street
Saco
Walter Rognlien
Rognlien
Las Vegas
Saco-Biddeford
Sahara Hotel
Boston
Tsavelog International Inc
Middle Street
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