Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Eisenhower. Europeans were also pleased by Ford's style, which they characterize as warm, candid, direct, open and firm. At the Vatican, one prelate was impressed with Ford's "physical presence," while another thought he noted a certain similarity to Eisenhower. "Calm activism" is the way Italian officials describe the impression given by Ford that "he doesn't want to let a situation stagnate. He really wants to set the whole chessboard into motion...
Peterson, he says, apparently knows the cost of being candid with the alumni. "Without the generous support from the classes between 1910 and the 1940s the current open admissions policy without regard to financial situation would not be possible. It was a painful decision for many alumni because they knew full well it would lower the chances of having their children attend Harvard." Peterson says that it is the classes of the next 30 years that he must worry about even now. He explains that the graduates of the 30s and 40s "had inherited wealth to give," but the classes...
...self-righteous. They all call me Phil, they all love to go off-the-record and whine about the other characters in this story, no matter how minor, and they all have an axe to grind. And they're all trying to manipulate me by pretending to be utterly candid...
Stumbling over his words, Ford appears candid, and because he seems to have trouble thinking though his policies, he gives the impression that he is at least grappling with great issues. The truth is that Gerry Ford is not a man who can't think, but one who stopped thinking a long time ago. Hersey says of the Ford who requested useless military aid for Vietnam and Cambodia up to the last minute: "Once he has made such a [tough] decision, he does not agonize over it; rather, he becomes convinced of its rightness and is stubborn in its defense...
...must integrate public support into the conduct of our foreign affairs through responsible and candid leadership by the Executive, in the Congress and in the media, with better understanding of the roles of pressure groups, whether they be economic, ethnic or philosophic. Also, there must continue to be a strong moralistic basis for U.S. foreign policy. It would have no validity without...