Personal charge of his forces and today has been perhaps the most important for him with the key battles of his nomination fight coming to a head. Bob schieffer reports. Bob the president spent a lot of time visiting various state allegations. He went to some of the headquarters hotels and had other dollar legation to headquarters on the 18th floor of this hotel. One of the things you come away with after talking to people here, members of the white house staff is this the ford people seem a lot more comfortable about their vote count. On the other hand, they are 16c thingout this coming up tonight to force the president to name his running mate early. The organization conducted a poll and while it should they would win on the issue, they would probably win on a thin margin. The ford people know when you have a margin that then, anything can happen. Somehowo know that if the reagan forces push that through, there is a good chance it is going to cost mr. Ford some votes. That is why the
Mate early. The organization conducted a poll and while it should they would win on the issue, they would probably win on a thin margin. The ford people know when you have a margin that then, anything can happen. They also know that if somehow the reagan forces push that through, there is a good chance it is going to cost mr. Ford some votes. That is why they will be working very hard against it and thats why the reagan folks will be working hard. Walter this has been a crucial day for the presence challenger, Ronald Reagan. The reagan camp is operating on the premise that the actual delegate battle is much closer than most counts indicate. Based on that, governor reagan was busy going from hotel to hotel, delegation to delegation, stressing two main things. First, reiterating very firmly that he would not accept a Vice President ial spot on a ford ticket if the income in order be this conventions nominee. Reagan said over and over he would go back to the private life, turning out spee
Neither had a majority of delegates. Cbs news was there to cover a contested convention. Part of that coverage was a debate among delegates over a rule that would require president ford to name his running a made. Portion of that debate is 3. 5 hours. This is a cbs news special report. The Third Session of the Republican National convention. This portion is sponsored by merrill lynch. Now here is walter cronkite. Good evening. This may be the most exciting Political Convention session any errors a in years. The Republican Party is here to nominate a president ial candidate and an incumbent president for the First Time Since 1912 faces a serious challenge from within his own party. That comes tomorrow night according to the schedule with a scheduledt could be out on the floor of the arena tonight. Both sides will test their strength, which could make or break. New is the number of the rule proposed by the reagan side that would force president ford to name his Vice President ial running
Well, thank you very much, robert. Its a real pleasure to be here today at transylvania. Want to thank president kerry and transylvania for hosting me here today. Happy to be veterans day here as well. I also want to acknowledge my good friend ben chandler. He and his family of course are descendants of one of the people im going to be talking about today. Kentucky has been extremely well served with ben as the executive director of the Kentucky Humanities Council and i want to thank him for sharing some of the anecdotes im going to use today. Finally, i want to thank chris mosher, all of whom have contributed in one way or another not only to the remarks today, but speeches ive been giving to prominent kentucky senators over the past few years. Two of these three men helped define kentucky politics for much of the 20th century. Both served as governor and as senator. Both were intensely ambitious men. Both rose from modest origins. Both were democrats born in western kentucky. Both we
Politicians who served as governors and the senate. Senator mcconnell argues that the competition between Happy Chandler and Earle Clements led to the election of Thruston Morton. Well, thank you very much, robert. Its a real pleasure to be here today at transylvania. Want to thank president kerry and transylvania for hosting me here today. Happy to be veterans day here as well. I also want to acknowledge my good friend ben chandler. He and his family of course are descendants of one of the people im going to be talking about today. Kentucky has been extremely well served with ben as the executive director of the Kentucky Humanities Council and i want to thank him for sharing some of the anecdotes im going to use today. Finally, i want to thank chris mosher, all of whom have contributed in one way or another not only to the remarks today, but speeches ive been giving to prominent kentucky senators over the past few years. Two of these three men helped define kentucky politics for much