Adele Ferguson
September 6, 2012
I’VE BEEN to a lot of political conventions in my day and long ago proposed the national confabs ought to be abolished, if not outlawed.
They are deadly dull most of the time although I was there when the Republicans nominated Ford over Reagan who was given a consolation prize of making the closing speech of the doings, a speech so compelling you could see delegates all over the room looking at each other with that “We nominated the wrong guy” expression.
I was there when Walter Mondale told Democratic delegates their taxes will be raised but Reagan wouldn’t tell them that “and I...
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