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Suddenly Gerald Ford ran into his toughest week of the presidential campaign???and perhaps of his entire political career. For a month Ford has been closing fast on Jimmy Carter. But now the President was struck by a series of setbacks that were remarkable even in this mercurial year, marked by flip-flops at the podiums and in the polls. Amid the flood of blunders and bad news, there were also reports that revived questions about the President's probity in the past. Some of the charges were both old and minor, but even his supporters feared that unless Ford...
...because the speech was delivered at 10:30 p.m. in Kansas City?a time when untold millions in such pivotal Eastern states as Pennsylvania (27 electoral votes) and New York (41) had already gone to bed. Then, staying in Washington and acting "presidential"?a major theme of his campaign???Ford will address the B'nai B'rith convention, a speech that will be closely studied by key Jewish leaders. Ford will also meet with the same Roman Catholic bishops who last week got into yet another squabble with Carter over the abortion issue (see story page...
...jarring primary struggle that ended with the presidential nomination still maddeningly eluding both contenders obviously was only a prelude to Phase 2 of the 1976 campaign???an intense, even frantic pursuit of a relative handful of delegates who now may determine the nominee...
...invited to Washington by Nixon in 1958 to handle the then Vice President's bid for the 1960 presidential nomination. That year he became Nixon's campaign director. Many observers of that contest maintain that if Nixon had not persisted in meddling with every detail of the campaign???an unfortunate tendency he learned to master in 1968?he would have become President eight years sooner...
Niece Betty Rogers of Philippine Governor Henry Stimson (Republican) took time from her study of law at Yale to campaign???for the Brown Derby. Other famed Smith campaigners were Miss Sally Cabot of Boston and her cousin Maude Cabot of Manhattan. A reason for this Cabot support was seen in a campaign letter from Mrs. Constance Lodge Williams of Hamilton. Massachusetts. Supporting Senator David Walsh against his Republican adversary. B. Loring Young, she wrote...