MIAMI BEACH, Aug. 5--If you are searching for hoopla at the Republican National Convention you won't be disappointed; miniskirted Rockefeller girls, Nixon men on stilts costumed as Uncle Same ...

The 1968 Chicago convention became a lacerating event ... all shared an abiding pessimism over their prospects against a Republican Party that had coalesced behind Richard M.

We're going to win because this great convention has demonstrated to the nation that the Republican party has ... The choice we make in 1968 will determine not only the future of America but ...

(TIME, August 16, 1968) -- As they start on the road to ... These are the chief questions that emerge from the Republican Convention and will dominate the political scene for the next 2 1/2 ...

Right now, presidential candidates are crisscrossing the country, begging primary voters for their support. So it's easy to forget that not too long ago, these voters had no say in who their party ...

The presidential election of 1968 was one of the most chaotic in ... easily winning the nomination at the Republican Convention. Nixon ran as the champion of the "silent majority," those who ...

San Diego has never hosted a national political convention, and California has not hosted a Republican convention since 1964, when Barry Goldwater was nominated in San Francisco. Current ...