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Mr. Chairman
Ray Bliss was a masterful behind-the-scenes force in the Republican Party for more than three decades at the local, state, and national levels. Recognized as a master of the \"nuts and bolts\" of practical politics, Bliss was among the first to use polling and television in campaigns. When Bliss took over as national chairman in 1965, the GOP was on life support after Barry Goldwater's landslide defeat in the 1964 presidential election. Bliss rebuilt the party through hard work, innovation, a keen eye for detail, and uncanny political instincts. His shrewd ability to unite liberal, moderate, and conservative Republicans helped put Richard M. Nixon in the White House in 1968. This thorough biography chronicles Bliss's career from campus political czar at the University of Akron, to Akron City Hall, the Ohio Statehouse, and finally the national capital in Washington, DC. It details his complicated relationship with Nixon, who used Bliss's skills to become president, but then forced his resignation as national chairman.
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Article III- equitable relief - election administration - 'Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee'
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a variety of challenges in election administration, resulting in numerous legal disputes. One of these disputes arose in Wisconsin, as the state legislature's decision to proceed with a statewide election during the early stages of the outbreak sparked a national outcry and led to multiple lawsuits. A group of plaintiffs succeeded in obtaining relief in federal district court, winning a preliminary injunction that, among other remedies, extended the deadline for voters to send in absentee ballots for several days after Election Day. Last Term, in 'Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee', the Supreme Court held that, as \"lower federal courts should ordinarily not alter the election rules on the eve of an election,\" the district court erred in granting this extension. The Court traced this disfavor for late judicial intervention to 'Purcell v. Gonzalez', a decision that emphasized the need for courts faced with preelection challenges to consider the adverse effect that resulting \"voter confusion\" might have on electoral participation. The outcome in 'Republican National Committee', which made participation more difficult for many Wisconsinites, demonstrates that the 'Purcell' doctrine's consideration of participation is one-sided: it accounts only for possible adverse effects of late judicial intervention on voter participation. In order to allow for a more complete assessment of the consequences of preelection court orders for voter participation - including consideration of the benefits of orders that facilitate access to the franchise - the Court should stop treating 'Purcell' as a bright-line rule against late judicial intervention and instead include an order's timing as just one element in its ordinary multifactor stay analysis.
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Madam Chairman : Mary Louise Smith and the Republican revival after Watergate
For much of her career Mary Louise Smith stood alone as a woman in a world of politics run by men. After devoting over two decades of her life to politics, she eventually became the first, and only, woman chairman of the Republican National Committee. Suzanne O'Dea examines Smith's rise and fall within the party and analyzes her strategies for gaining the support of Republican Party leaders.
Smith's leadership skills grew from the time she worked in rural precincts. During her twenty-eight months as chairman, Smith dealt with highs and lows as she blazed not only a trail of her own but also one for the Republican Party, including assembling the team that kept the party intact following the devastation of Watergate. She was present during the party's shift from moderate leadership, as exemplified by Ford, to the increasingly conservative leadership still seen today. Smith was an advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment, a supporter of the pro-choice movement, and a proponent of gay rights.
Though handpicked by President Ford, Smith still found herself struggling against the party and at times even against the president himself. At one point Smith lost months of fundraising opportunities as a result of a disagreement with the president. She and her staff developed innovative strategies, still used in the party today, to attract desperately needed dollars from major donors. Even so, people within the administration as well as unnamed party leaders regularly intimated that Smith's days as chairman were numbered. Even after leaving the chairmanship, Smith remained loyal to the party from which she felt increasingly alienated.
O'Dea uses extensive personal interviews with Smith and her staff at the RNC to recount not only Smith's and the GOP's changing fortunes but also the challenges Republican women faced as they worked to gain a larger party presence. These behind-the-scenes perspectives show the tactics and strategies of the Republican Party's power struggles along with Smith's own opinions about leadership style. With relevance to today's political strategies and conservative shift, O'Dea highlights Mary Louise Smith's mark on Republican history.
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Meet the Press, March 1, 1953
On this edition of Meet the Press: C. Wesley Roberts (Chairman, Republican National Committee) discusses the state of the nation.
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Meet the Press, September 30, 1951
On this edition of Meet the Press: Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Guy Gabrielson
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Meet the Press, June 5, 2005
On this edition of Meet the Press: an interview with the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ken Mehlman.
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Hard line
Hard Line traces the history of Republican Party foreign policy since World War II by focusing on the conservative leaders who shaped it. Colin Dueck closely examines the political careers and foreign-policy legacies of Robert Taft, Dwight Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush. He shows how Republicans shifted away from isolationism in the years leading up to World War II and oscillated between realism and idealism during and after the cold war. Yet despite these changes, Dueck argues, conservative foreign policy has been characterized by a hawkish and intense American nationalism, and presidential leadership has been the driving force behind it.
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Election of 1824: When the House Chose
In the Presidential Election of 1824, five men from one party were up for the job. It was left to the House of Representatives to figure out a winner – and the aftermath led to the modern two-party system.
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Election of 1860: A Nation, Torn
The Presidential Election of 1860 proved the most divisive in U.S. history, with the election of Abraham Lincoln triggering the secession of Southern states. But how did it play out at the polls?
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