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Article: Republicans Return to Philadelphia.
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- Campaigns & Elections
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- June 1, 2000
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THE REPUBLICAN PARTY will meet in Philadelphia July 31-Aug. 3 to nominate Texas Gov. George W. Bush as its presidential nominee. It will be the GOP's 37th presidential nominating convention and its sixth such gathering in the City of Brotherly Love.
It will, however, mark the end of a 52-year hiatus for Philadelphia as host of a major party national convention. Here's one way of looking at just how long it has been since Pennsylvania's biggest city played host to both the Republican and Democratic conventions in 1948:
The Republicans are billing their 2000 meeting as the first full-fledged convention of the Internet age. But the last time the party went ...