The Michigan Daily-Friday, July 18, 1980-Page 3 Convention Reports ....................... Source says Ford sought to be 'deputy president' din DETROIT (AP) - Gerald Ford sought a role as a deputy president as the price Ronald Reagan would have to pay to bring the former president onto the Republican ticket, a source close to Reagan said yesterday. The source also said Ford, in private conversations with Reagan on Wed- nesday, brought up the name of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the context of a discussion about "a specific example of the kinds of people" who might be considered for the secretary's job. But he said Ford did not require the return of Kissinger, with whose policies Reagan disagrees. -AMONG THE areas on which Ford sought agreement, there were sticking points over his interest in obtaining a role in the National Security Council and the Office of Management and Budget, key bodies in the formulation of foreign and domestic policy, according to sources in both camps. The Reagan source, who asked for anonymity, said the role Ford en- visioned as Reagan's vice president would have been one of coordinating the work of the NSC and budge office, ser- ving as a "super director" of the White House staff. But in the end, said the source, the talks broke up - and the "dream ticket" of Reagan and-Ford fell with them - not as the result of one insur- mountable obstacle but because "the president honestly felt this was not something he should do." FORD TOLD a reporter: "I didn't want a traditional role. I wanted a meaningful role. It didn't work out." Reagan said yesterday had Ford wanted the job on the terms available, itwould have been his. A Reagan floor whip at the Republican National Convention, Rep. Carroll Campbell of South Carolina, said an agreement was blocked by "a, list of demands" that Ford control the NSC and budget office. Another Reagan friend, Rep. Tom Evans of Delaware, said Ford's aides sought for him a veto on the nominations of the secretaries of state, defense and treasury and the budget director in a Reagan administration. THE SOURCE, reconstructing the three meetings Reagan and Ford had beginning Tuesday afternoon and en- ding at 11:25 p.m. Wednesday - minutes before Reagan decided to pick George Bush as his running mate made these points: " The Reagan representatives, who spent about two-and-one-half hours with "the friends of President Ford," drew up a paper summarizing their discussions. It was written by William Casey, Reagan's campaign manager, and typed by Reagan chief of staff Ed- win Meese. " Ford, as a former president and former vice president, was well aware of the ways in which a vice president can be used, and misused, by a president. Kissinger said Ford was concerned about becoming a "fifth Wheel" in the White House. " Ford was always "pretty negative" about the prospects of the talks' suc- ceeding. This conforms .with a por- trayal of Ford's skepticism by his own aides and congressional friends of the former president. " Reagan was "generally amenable" to a Ford role that could be charac- terized as a "deputy president." The meetings, which began Tuesday night, brought together the brain trusts of the two staffs. Meese, Casey and Richard Wirthlin represented Reagan. Ford sent Kissinger, former economic adviser Alan Greenspan, former White House aide John Marsh and his current staff chief, Bob Barrett. One friend of the Reagan camp said Kissinger entered the talks negotiating CHICAGO NEWS VENDOR John Haupt looks over an early edition of the for Ford and ended up "negotiating Chicago Sun-Times yesterday morning that declared GeraldFord the GOP more for himself" by seeking a major vice presidential candidate. Later editions changed the headline, and policy role in a Reagan administration, vendors reported collectors were buying every copy they could find. Delegates regard O platfr-mas 'gospel' By SARA ANSPACH Drake is an anomaly among his colleagues. Reagan's Speciatote Daily pragmatic choice of Bush for vice-president quashed any DETROIT-There are those Republican delegates who doubts less conservative delegates may have had. Just about are plessed with the party's platform and think Ronald everybody wants to see a solidly unified GOP, and in the Reagan is a damned good choice for presidenthin November. interests of achieving that goal, they have put what they call And then there are those who quote the platform as if it minor issues-the Equal Rights Amendment, the pro-life were thehGospel and think Ronald Reagan is God, plank, andthe 30 per cent tax cut-aside. THE LATTER MAKE up the majority. Liz Simms, a California delegate who favors freedom of "No use joking about unity. We are two parties. One is choice in abortion and is a supporter of the ERA, says she m oderatel ongrative nt.hWe trwisonrvativne s feels "very comfortable" with Reagan's choice of George moderate," svative, the other s conservative Bush as his running mate. Bush's views are close to hers on conservative," says George Jones, a self-proclaime~d thsiseythescerywcmenthmasram f moderately conservative delegate from Kentucky. And he those issues, yet he is deny welcome in the mainstream of admits the conservative conservatives have won hands down the party, she observes. this year. THE OVERWHELMING majority of delegates say there Buth nes iis no person who would make a better president than Ronald But Jnes isn't upset at all. He's been a loyal Republican Reagan. They believe the Republican party and Reagan can for 50 years and he certainly isn't going to squabble over a bring a moral, economic, and spiritual revival to America. few minor issues. Above and beyond everything else, he "Under Reagan, I look for a term of respect for all our wants to see Republican candidate Ronald Reagan in office friends in foreign countries," said an alternate from next year. California who prefers to be called Mrs. Harry Sakjian. THERE ARE VERY few defectors. But Timothy Drake, "The liberals say, 'if it feels good, do it.' You can't run an Illinois delegate and long-time Republican is one who says your life that way. You can't run your country that way," the moderates have been trampled this year. "I don't feel the said Georgia delegate Rick Jordan. "Our platform will platform represents the Republican party as a whole," he offer America a clear moral choice this time around." says. He said he will probably vote for John Anderson next See MANY, Pages fall.