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Ford knows that as well as anybody. So right now there is a thick notebook in the White House office of Jim Cannon, director of the Domestic Council, with literally scores of domestic proposals that have poured in from Cabinet officers and agency heads for three months. They range from rebuilding country sewers to resuscitating the Penn Central railroad...
Almost anyone can compile the list of pressing specifics: jobs, energy, environment, transportation, crime, welfare reform, city decay, land use, tax reform, education. But swimming up now through the mass of information in Cannon's office (the same one where John Ehrlichman used to strangle ideas) is a larger notion, not new but suddenly of such urgency that it may set the tone and direction of most of Ford's future. It is that the bumbling, insensitive, suffocating Federal Government has become too often an adversary of the people and not a help and is unnecessarily diminishing individual...
...subject of encroaching bureaucratic control used to make people's eyes glaze over," says Cannon. "I don't think so any longer." Cannon wandered through some Midwestern cities with his ears open. He was astonished at how many people vented their anger and concern about federal intervention. A bank in St. Louis lost thousands of dollars in business just because a Government agent came around to check on whether or not the place was hiring enough women. The simple presence of the Government gumshoe made a number of customers wonder if something else was wrong with the bank...
...files of the Domestic Council is a study from 1937 predicting that the Interstate Commerce Commission would mean the demise of the railroads. Cannon remembers writing something like that again in 1954 when he was a journalist. And so today the railroads are almost moribund just like the script, but the ICC goes...
Hard Kick. The cannon was effective, of course, showing the world that the U.S. will not accept humiliating provocations. But the U.S. success owed almost as much to luck as to skill in combat. If the Communist Cambodians had dug in and refused to release the Mayaguez crew, the military mission might well have aborted. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Joseph J. Kane, Defense Secretary James Schlesinger admitted: "The outcome was fortunate...