Word: bushed
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Last week's appointments indicate that Ford wants to move out many of the people who were close to Nixon in his last months. Ford's selection of Republican National Committee Chairman George Bush as chief of the U.S. mission in Peking, and Presidential Economic Counsellor Kenneth Rush as ambassador to Paris, served this purpose while filling important diplomatic posts with men of stature. Ford also intends to dispatch Peter M. Flanigan, another Nixon stalwart, as Ambassador to Spain...
...Peking, George Bush, 50, will replace the retiring David K.E. Bruce. Bush, a self-made oil millionaire and two-term Congressman from Texas, was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1970 through 1972. Ironically, he led the losing fight to keep China out of the U.N. Despite this, Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger hope the Chinese will be flattered by the appointment of a man close to the President...
...last week's Republican gubernatorial primary, the Kansas-born, millionaire real estate developer was defeated by a bearded poet-fisherman-bush pilot and big-game guide named Jay Hammond...
...test opinion further, Ford called upon some 300 assorted Senators, Congressmen, Governors, state party chairmen and committeemen to list their top three choices for Veep. Rockefeller topped the Governors' list, while George Bush, the G.O.P. national chairman, led among Congressmen and state officials. With the support of G.O.P. conservatives, Richard L. Herman, Nebraska committeeman, opened a drive for Bush. But Ford noted that Rockefeller had not been given a thumbs-down by any group polled. Along with Laird, two other Ford intimates, Michigan Senator Robert Griffin and Presidential Adviser Bryce Harlow, supported Rockefeller-and so did Henry Kissinger...
...decision had virtually been made, though Ford was still considering a list of five possibilities: Rockefeller, Bush, NATO Ambassador Donald Rumsfeld, who is a member of Ford's transition team, and Tennessee Senators William Brock and Howard Baker. The President asked the FBI to run a check on Rockefeller, Bush and Rumsfeld. The agency reported that there was no derogatory information in FBI or IRS files. Then Ford submitted all five names to the special prosecutor to find out if there were any Watergate connections. Rockefeller, in fact, had been slightly bruised when he was falsely accused a week...