The Reagan-Ford Vice-Presidential Dance | The Reagan Era
Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia
Slate Podcasts
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🗓️ 24 February 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Slate's podcast about campaign history, John Dickerson explains how Ronald Reagan almost became Gerald Ford’s vice president and vice-versa.
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| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to Whistle Stop a podcast of campaign curiosity. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm John Dickerson and Face the Nation. Ronald Reagan was almost Ronald Reagan's vice president and that's a |
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| 1:25.6 | Our whistle stop today is the afternoon of Saturday, March 15, 1980. |
| 1:29.7 | It's a sunny day in Rancho Mirage, California, |
| 1:32.3 | former President Gerald Ford wearing a gray suit, a blue button-down |
| 1:36.6 | shirt, walks out to meet a handful of reporters near the grapefruit tree in the front yard of his office |
| 1:42.0 | complex. In what he'd later |
| 1:43.7 | called the toughest decision of his life, Ford took himself out of the presidential |
| 1:47.8 | race. America needs a new president, he said. His wife Betty was at his side. I have determined that I can |
| 1:54.8 | best help that cause by not being a candidate for president which might |
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