Chicago also made a bid for the 1996 Republican National Convention, but a clause in the contract with the Democrats required the city to withdraw it.

Gingrich said he didn't view efforts to cast the four-day extravaganza as a "different kind of Republican convention" as a direct attack on his leadership during the 1996 party gathering ...

Many men went to Cleveland hoping, trying to put an anti-Ku Klux Klan plank in the Republican platform. They had prepared a plank which read thus: This party pledges itself and its candidates to stand ...