Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Born on the Fourth of July is Kovic's simple and moving account of his ten-year journey out of that bedridden impotence, towards a new reconciliation with life and an expiation of the Vietnam experience. In the telling, he leads us back through a Catholic working-class childhood in Massapequa, Long Island, his high school days and Marine boot camp. It is the story of the maturation of a young man who says his manhood has been "defiled." By the end, Ron Kovic is still paralyzed, but he is no cripple...
...finances with surprising good humor. Asked how he had managed to get along on something like $5 in pocket money per week in 1972, as his recently disclosed IRS audit indicated, Ford replied: "I write checks." He explained away his withdrawal of $1,167 from his Fifth District bank account, which contained political contributions and fees from speaking engagements, for a 1972 family vacation trip to Vail, Colo. The President reiterated that he had promptly reimbursed the account by writing a check, even though he had not deposited it until his next payday, because his personal account was apparently overdrawn...
Other Allegations. The President claimed he had also promptly repaid his Fifth District account for the use of $871.44 in 1972 to buy some clothing for himself and Wife Betty to wear at the 1972 Republican Convention. (Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen later corrected him, saying that only the cost of the plane tickets had been repaid.) Though no crime had ever been alleged in either expense, both violated the House Code of Official Conduct, which directs that campaign and personal funds be kept clearly separated...
Inner Conflict. Yankelovich stresses that a few days' difference in the polls can account for sizable variations. He also contends that there are two types of electorates: one that makes its mind up and stays put, as in 1972, when 60% of the voters had decided to support Richard Nixon before Labor Day; and the 1976 voters, who "are very unsure," torn by "inner conflicts" and who thus respond to a Ford gaffe one day, a Carter gaffe the next. "People are uneasy about Carter and find Ford an acceptable alternative," says Yankelovich. He emphasizes, as do Gallup...
Instead of rebutting, Carter tried to score some points by accusing Ford of making "a political football out of the defense budget." He recalled that the President at first considered cutting the Pentagon's budget proposal for fiscal 1977 by $6.8 billion. By Carter's account, Ford then gradually added back $6.3 billion for political reasons-$3 billion after his unpopular dismissal of Schlesinger, $1.5 billion after Ronald Reagan won the Texas primary and $1.8 billion on the eve of his narrow victory at the Republican National Convention. Actually, Ford asked for the $1.5 billion before the Texas...