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...comeunelected to the Oval Office. Though he began his stewardship buoyed by immense popular good will, Ford disillusioned many Americans with his sudden unconditional pardon of Nixon. For all his fall campaigning at home and his ventures abroad to Tokyo, Seoul and Vladivostok, Ford did not seem quick to assert the firm and imaginative leadership that the U.S. so badly needed. Still, at year's end, Ford had been in office only 144 days, and that was plainly too short a period to tell how effective his presidency might ultimately...
...instance, his purported 5 a.m. car collision with a milk truck last September. The accident was reportedly witnessed by some on the Champs Elysées, by others in a Paris suburb. Some say they saw him driving a black Citroën, some a green Peugeot. Others knowingly assert that the vehicle was a red Maserati borrowed from his friend, Film Director Roger Vadim. According to most of the rumors, he was alone on the night of the accident. Unless, of course, it is true, as some insist, that he was accompanied by an attractive young television announcer. Several...
...preserving the untroubled functioning of their own administrative systems than to doing their job, which is usually supposed to be helping people. What has made these brutal films bearable is that time after time Wiseman has discovered competent, even loving individuals struggling within these systems not only to assert their own humanity but to help society's cripples and victims to maintain theirs...
...Aspirants gear up sooner; indeed, some, like Democrats Henry Jackson and George Wallace, never really geared down from their 1972 campaigns. And likely prospects are finding the need to declare themselves in or out sooner than ever before. For their own particular reasons, Gerald Ford recently felt compelled to assert definitely that he would run in 1976, and Edward Kennedy that he would not. Last week there were two more decisions for '76, both by liberal Democrats, one opting...
...Gunther argued that the use of the Marshall dictum was misleadingly broad; every constitutional issue, he said, is not automatically reviewable by the court. One example: impeachment. Chicago's Kurland put the point neatly when he noted that the opinion "says no more than 'the President cannot assert that he is the law, because we are the law.' L 'état, c 'est nous...