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Campaigns in TIME: The G.O.P.
A look back at some of the best TIME photographs of the Republican contenders during the modern era of presidential campaigns
NOT THIS TIME Reagan put up a strong challenge to sitting president Gerald Ford in the Republican primaries in 1976; here he is campaigning in New Hampshire. As Ford later admitted, "I didn't take Reagan seriously"neither had California governor Pat Brown when Reagan beat him in 1966 |
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