Lenoir Rhyne College - Hacawa Yearbook (Hickory, NC)

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Governor Holshouser President Ford Congressman Broyhill President Ford accepting gift of L-R seal from Rob Fritz; Rep. Broyhill looks on.

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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES CARTER, REAGAN, MADE HICKORY STOPS jkVK - ' A frenzy of pre-primary activity thrust Lenoir-Rhyne into the mainstream of national politics during March ' 76 as we hosted the top three contenders for the Oval Office: the incumbent President, Gerald Ford, his Republican adversary, Ronald Reagan, and the leading Demo- cratic challenger, Jimmy Carter. P.E. Monroe Auditorium was filled to capacity for Jimmy Carter ' s March ad- dress, in which he discussed the strategi- cally important North Carolina primary, as well as his stands on revenue sharing, abortion, federal work programs, and the New River Dam project. One week later. Republican Ronald Reagan, accompanied by actor Jimmy Stewart, traveled to Hickory for an after- noon rally at Catawba Mall. The former Governor of California spoke about the negative effects of an overextended fed- eral bureaucracy, our national defense program, and relations between Cuba and the United States.