President Gerald Ford and first lady Betty Ford celebrate winning the nomination at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, in August 1976. Photo by John T. Bledsoe/Library of ...

Repulican Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan (left) and President Gerald Ford eye each other at a podium during the GOP National Convention, Kansas City, Mo., mid August, 1976. Ford won the party ...

Republican National Conventions of years past have simmered with intrigue, speculation and pivotal moments, but this year could shape up to have one singular focus:... Before the advent of primary ...

LATE ON THE EVENING OF August 19, 1976, at the Kemper Arena in Kansas City, prospects looked bleak for the Republican party and even bleaker for the conservative movement. Gerald R. Ford had just ...

FILE - Clarke Reed, who was chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party from 1966-76, discusses the contested 1976 Republican National Convention in Greenville, Miss., on April 6, 2016. (AP ...

It has been almost 36 years since California Gov. Ronald Reagan took his fight for the Republican nomination all the way to the 1976 convention. The party hasn’t seen as close a race since. But that ...