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
Meteorologist topper shutt. This is the storm right now over the bay pushing into the delmarva across easton and cambridge that brought you all the lightning and at one time did produce enough criteria to where a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Charles County and st. Marys county and more showers back towards the west. I think these showers in romney will peel across winchester, frederick in the overnight hours, early tomorrow morning. The heaviest rain now is over the bay headed towards st. Michaels and lightning has dissipated, so the storm has also dissipated. Futurecast, 7 00 tomorrow morning, you could have a wet commute coming down southbound 270, wet roads, temperatures upper 60s to around 70, 75 downtown. Well come back, track the storms and have the evening commute and your 3degree guarantee. Right now at 11 00 a 1 monthold boy from northeast d. C. Is home safe with his family tonight thanks to some quick thinking firefighters. The firefighters raced the boy to Childrens Natio
Well watch as the motorcade travel down pennsylvanianue passed the white house where bush 41 served as Vice President and then president. And on to Washingtons National cathedral the bush family will join with u. S. And World Leaders, friends and bitter rivaling to celebrate George Herbert walker bushs 94 years of life and his legacy. Jake, his service will be exactly as president bush would have wanted. Thats right. He planned it for years. The president , who said that famously he wanted a kinder, gentler nation made sure in fact that the current commander in chief would be at his funeral, despite their considerable differences in both policy and personality. It is hard to overstate what a remarkable gathering we will see. President trump and First Lady Melania Trump will join all four living former president s. Obviously george w. Bush and his family. We will also see barack and michelle obama, bill and Hillary Clinton, jimmy and rose carter. It will be the first time all of them ha
There are ship s ths that sail sea. But the best ships are friendships and may they always be. A i remember meeting my dear friend in 1962 when my father Millard Simpson was a member of the United States senate. Is i went to washington to help dad settle in his new office being vacated by one senator prescott bush, georges father. We met again when we left washington and they had sold their home to a brand spanking new congressman named george bush. So george and barbara and mom and pop did that sale on a handshake. Sound familiar . Then i came to the senate in 1978 and soon after that ronald ra reagan cornered me and asked me to support him for president. I said, i would, not knowing that my friend george would enter the fray. Hearing that i called and said, george, i want to tell you that id love the help, but i already committed to ronald reagan. Georges response, well, alan, i am sorry about that, i probably should have let you know sooner. And actually a guy doesnt get many calls