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• nytimes.com
No, Detroit wasn't viable even then. Bob Herbert is rewriting history yet again. The government did guaranty Chrysler's loans in 1979 to prevent it's collapse. Putting the Republican Convention anywhere is always throwing that city a bone. And Detroit needed a big one.
From the page: "But as Mr. Shaiken points out, Detroit was still viable enough for the Republican Party to hold its convention here in 1980, when it nominated Ronald Reagan. And it was not the riots, but the devastating recession of the early â€80s that really knocked the city senseless. â€oeThatâ€s when the place really cracked,” said Mr. Shaiken, â€oeand that was about aggressive globalization and the lack of an industrial policy, not the riots.”"