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...business community fill a gap that has been the greatest flaw in American journalism for year. But all with a light touch--when he tells us that California oil and banking interests have traded in Ford for Reagan, and gives convincing evidence for his claim, he titles his revelation "Bozo Must...
...press is caricaturing him as Bozo the Clown," one of Gerald Ford's wisest and most experienced advisers lamented last week. "The Democrats regard him as the devil incarnate, and Ronnie Reagan wants his job. The President is struggling against a tremendous complex of problems...
Lesser said that the group will study important policy problems. "We want to know whether kids separate commercials from programs when Bozo the Clown and teachers on Romper Room sell products on their shows," he said. "Are they induced by premiums, like toys in cereal boxes. Do they understand disclaimers like 'batteries not included'?" he added...
...probably the roughest caricature of Gerald Ford ever seen in a major U.S. publication: New York magazine last week ran a cover of the President as Bozo the Clown. Some journalists quickly questioned New York's taste and timing in running the burlesque just when Ford was on a national mission abroad. But after the WIN buttons, the list of undistinguished nominations, the drift, the constant domestic travels, the bloopers and the gaffes, few could deny that New York's article inside had brought to the fore some basic questions about the President's capacity...
...There is a question of whether there is an emperor." At one stop, Reeves contends, Ford apparently equated the legitimacy of Jordan with that of the Palestine Liberation Organization, but no journalist squawked. Along the campaign trail, says Reeves, many journalists referred to Ford in private as "dummy" or "Bozo," but treated him with due deference in print...