How the Republicans' dream ticket was bornand died
The extraordinary hours in which the friends and agents of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan tried to fashion a unique ticket composed of a once and a (possibly) future President were political drama of the highest order. How the effort to get Ford to run with Reagan began and ballooned and why it finally burst is told in this story reported by TIME Correspondents Robert Ajemian, Laurence Barrett, Neil MacNeil and Hugh Sidey:
In the end, they failed. But as they rode an emotional roller coaster...
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