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Campaign 1976!!! It is one of the most interesting Presidential elections in all of American History. It is also the gateway to the end of one era, that of the Vietnam - Watergate years and the start of the Reagan Era. It is a Presidential Campaign that early on featured figures from the battles of the 1960's and 1970s, from George Wallace  to Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern, to the men who would dominate the next era of American History in Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. 

It will feature the last Convention battle for an undecided nomination at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, and after the battle is finally won, it will bring about a moment that every American remembers when Gerald Ford would invite Ronald Reagan to the floor for an impromptu speech, that would be considered widely as the best speech ever delivered by Ronald Reagan.  After all of that, Gerald Ford would start out his fall campaign 33 points behind the Democratic ticket of Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale. 

This is the first of three episodes that will tell that story. In this episode we take you through the primary campaign and profile both Governors Jimmy Carter of Georgia, and Ronald Reagan of California and we will hear from President Gerald Ford too.  We will take you on a wild ride to the Republican National Convention for all of its drama that captivated the nation like a convention of old. 

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