{"id":2666,"date":"2012-08-07T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2015-01-07T17:28:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T22:28:53","slug":"oct-31-1980-ronald-reagan-visits-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2012\/08\/07\/oct-31-1980-ronald-reagan-visits-pittsburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Reagan campaigns in Pittsburgh in 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\" <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Oct. 31, 1980<\/strong><\/em>: Ronald Reagan and his campaign strategists identified Pennsylvania \u2014 particularly its western half \u2014 \u201cas a determinant of whether Reagan ends up the hero or the anti-hero of the 1980 presidential campaign.\u201d On Oct. 31, four days before the election, then-California Gov. Reagan brought his campaign against incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter to Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

On that day, Reagan met with labor leaders in the William Penn Hotel and spoke at a Station Square rally on the South Side. Reagan was accompanied by Sens. John Heinz and Richard Schweiker. (Schweiker later served as Secretary of Health and Human Services in Reagan\u2019s administration).<\/p>\n

The Post-Gazette wrote about the rally: \u201cUpon entering the Grand Concourse and clutching the hands of Sens. Schweiker and Heinz, arms upraised in anticipation of victory, the 69-year-old candidate looked understandably tired. He seemed to take no notice of the sumptuously refurbished P&LE Railroad station, despite the explanatory pointings and whisperings of Heinz.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Nov. 4, 1980, Ronald Reagan won the presidential election in a landslide.<\/p>\n

(Photo by James Klingensmith, Post-Gazette)<\/em><\/p>\n

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On that Halloween in 1980 Reagan spoke at a Station Square rally on the South Side, accompanied by Sens. John Heinz and Richard Schweiker. <\/p>\n

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