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GOP Leaders Seek New Faces for 1978 Comeback
Republican state leaders across the country call for an intensive organizational push focused on voter registration and candidate talent for the 1978 elections. The group is split between Ford and Reagan camps as they discuss a new national chairman to replace Mary Louise Smith, with governors seen as potential future leaders.
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Washington
GOP
Mary Louise Smith
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Iowa
Thomas Stoner
Des Moines
Robert D. Ray
Otis R. Bowen
Indiana
James Thompson
Illinois
Pierre S. DuPont IV
Delaware
Gordon Nelson
Massachusetts
Republican State Committee
Reagan
California
James Colter
Arizona
Nelson A. Rockefeller