TRAGEDY IN DALLAS
Brodner, Steve
TRAGEDY IN DALLAS BY STEVE BRODNER To be a Republican in Dallas! The Republican National Convention was a seamless web of geography, climate, and politics. Downtown Dallas was utterly deserted,...
...The first actor President of the f /^la^v 1 I ^ \v> i United States, smiling benignly from a huge ,-f"f ^vfr I '\klL^J^\%flSy...
...M*^ ^ _<r ) That judgment would not have been disputed by anyone in the hall...
...family, and the status of women...
...Tall glass buildings threw the sun's glare across empty avenues...
...WL, / I \|^i>r The climax was not the nomination but the ac1 N^i^e^^X-^ ceptance speech...
...At one point, the marchers took a wrong turn, lost their way, / f~^~T\- and went home...
...I raised three children: I know!' DELEGATE AT READING OF PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: 'It kind of gives you that creepy feeling all over.' REPUBLICAN AT $ 1,000-A-PLATE LUNCHEON: 'How do you do...
...One had to V/v I v4rr ik' '¦ffl wonder how far back...
...I'm from Washington, D.C., and Atlantic Richfield.' VICE PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH: 'Grenada was a proud moment in the history of the United States of America.' ED ROLLINS, REAGAN-BUSH CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR: 'Those Republicans [who don't agree with the Far Right platform] probably won't vote.' ANNA CHENAULT OF ASIAN AMERICANS FOR REAGAN-BUSH: 'There wasn't anything in the platform for us...
...Twenty- ////y^vW ' ) five years ago, these delegates would have been written off as John Birch \[lp^\V "r^i^Lr'c^^fc^ Society fruitcakes...
...Their march was largely ignored, except by the press and the police—who may have /^Z^Jr outnumbered the protesters...
...This was the Falwell-Schlafly- / W^W/ \ Z^JO^ Helms crowd come to "bring America back...
...They were a game group but overwhelmed by the elements...
...A7 1 \ J LJ THE REVEREND JERRY FALWELL: 'This is a party dedicated to the liberation of the unborn.' SENATOR PAUL LAXALT: 'This President will never desert the freedom fighters in Nicaragua.' DELEGATE: 'If you're working for an employer who gives you equal pay, why do you need the ERA...
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...To call them conservatives was to miss the point: These / ^Wv\ \ v\ "T>*rH/\v2i^ were Americans who proposed to tell their fellow citizens how to /^^/®^v\ / ^/V^/ll/x^^ conduct their private lives, with special reference to religion, the / .#^jy$Vf //Iy...
...Downtown Dallas was utterly deserted, and for good reason: The temperature was a humid 107 degrees...
...Onto this hotplate marched the only sizable anti-Reagan demonstration of the week, organized by several hundred disgruntled Americans who had camped out in tents in an unshaded nearby A gully...
...Looks / f/" ' ^, \ like God's a Republican after all," said one reporter...
...We know where's the beef, but all we get is baloney.' SENATOR HOWARD BAKER: 'Walter Mondale has nothing to offer successful America.' SENATOR BARRY GOLDWATER: 'The Democrats said nicer things about the Soviet Union than about our own armed services.' NANCY REAGAN: for the Gipperl' 'One more DELEGATE OUTSIDE THE HALL: 'They ought to take them boat people down to Guantanamo Bay and help them out of the country with M-I6s.' SENATOR STROM THURMOND: 'We need Reagan to turn the country around completely.' PROTESTER WEARING MASK: 'The names Ronald Wilson Reagan each have six letters...
...He's the anti-Christ-read your Bible, manl' GOVERNOR GEORGE DEUKMEJIAN: 'I sure feel better knowing that George Bush was director of the CIA.' WOMAN IN A FILM ABOUT REAGAN: 'People who don't understand the President, it's their own fault Maybe they don't have a television...
...video screen, was at the vortex of a perfect h°^/fJ$\^/ f ^jj^^v ai1^ ^er^ect'y tra^c P°ntica^set piece...
Vol. 48 • October 1984 • No. 10
