The 1976 Republican Party primary wasn't as sealed up as it is now. — -- The last time the fight for delegates was nearly as intense as during this year’s Republican presidential primary ...

The 1976 Republican National Convention was the culmination of a six-month struggle for what one national TV news reporter deemed “the soul of the Republican Party.” ...

McGovern’s anti-war stance would propel him to the Democratic nomination for president four years later, in 1972. South Dakota delegates gathered for the 1976 Republican convention in Kansas ...

Don Wolfensberger reflects on his experiences attending Republican National Conventions, including his first as a cheerleader for Barry Goldwater in 1964, his work on the platform committee in 1976… ...

During the 1976 Republican National Convention, delegates were closely divided between President Gerald Ford and former California Gov. Ronald Reagan.

Ben Bradford is the host of the new podcast Landslide, which is about the 1976 race — the contest between President Gerald Ford and Gov. Ronald Reagan — and how it led to today’s partisan gulf.

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.

Clarke Reed, a Mississippi businessman who developed the Republican Party in his home state and across the South starting in the 1960s, died Sunday at his home in Greenville, Mississippi. He was 96.

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.