By the mid-1970s , Sheets had left the chamber of commerce position and was engaged in real estate in Siloam Springs . He was an alternate delegate to the 1976 Republican National Convention that met in Kansas City , Missouri , to nominate the Ford-Dole ticket , narrowly preferred by the delegates over the rival slate of Ronald W. Reagan and Richard S. Schweiker . Dole took the second spot with Ford as Nelson Rockefeller had earlier withdrawn from contention . Sheets managed the Arkansas state campaign for Ford-Dole , with his counterpart for Jimmy Carter and Walter F. Mondale having been Bill Clinton , who ran unopposed that year for Attorney General of Arkansas . Although Sheets visited most of the counties in the campaign , Ford polled only 35 percent of the vote in Arkansas , with the larger Republican vote confined to its traditional stronghold in northwestern Arkansas
1976 Republican National Convention
1976 Republican National Convention
Jim Sheets