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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1976
Page
7
Delegates fill the Alameda Plaza Hotel as Reagan rallies 600 supporters and presses vice president aims. Ford counters with a 3,000-strong crowd, touts Four More Years and family backing. Both camps jockey over running mates, with Carter’s tax plans and deficits drawing scrutiny as the convention narrows toward a winner.
Kansas City AP Rhodes, Republican convention chairman, says Ford or Reagan likely win the nomination on the first ballot but a handful of uncommitted delegates could deny a first-ballot win. He favors a rule forcing bound delegates to vote for Ford or Reagan, else he may allow deviations.
Rabbi Baruch Korff, ally of Richard Nixon, urged Republicans to acknowledge both Nixon’s Watergate cover up and his later detente leadership. Speaking at a U S Citizens Congress reception that Korff founded, he noted the group raised 335000 to aid Nixon’s legal expenses and praised Nixon’s diplomacy with the Soviet Union and China and the ending of the draft.
The Reagan Nixon era debate centers on a proposed rule to force a running mate selection before presidential balloting. Senator Richard Schweiker is named as Reagan’s running mate, while Ford supporters call the move a bid to undermine Ford’s lead. A split emerges over state primary binding laws and convention certification plans for the 1976 convention.
Harris survey of 1,405 likely voters shows Ford 61 percent to Carter 32 with Reagan at 20. Ford gains come mostly from South suburbs and independents. Carter hard-core support at 44 percent, soft 44 percent. Stassen predicts first ballot Ford Reagan stalemate with Ford 620, Reagan 1,000 of 1,130 needed. 207 uncommitted.
Washington Star reports a former FBI exhibit section employee provided photographs of items used for officials personal use. John Dunphy pleaded guilty to unlawful conversion, cooperates with investigators, signaling a major breakthrough. The probe now targets multiple current and former bureau officials in a widening criminal inquiry.
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