Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walked with him by the Rose Garden. "It's this way," Ford said. "As I told the Governor, I have changed my mind because conditions have changed. I didn't think I would run. Now I probably will run." TerHorst, who reported the Nixon years for the Detroit News, was not quite ready for the new order himself. "Is it all right to put that out?" he asked. "I don't see why not," said Ford. "Why should we pretend?" They may pretend in Texas and California, but out in Chicago and Cleveland they hardly ever...
...Jack Hushen, 39, former Washington correspondent of the Detroit News and chief press aide in the Justice Department under Attorney General John Mitchell, as deputy press secretary...
...covered." Ford won by a 2-to-l margin, and the President now amiably refers to terHorst as a man who "connived to get me a little extra space in the Grand Rapids Press. " The reporter maintained Ford's friendship and the friendly coverage when he joined the Detroit News's Washington staff in 1957 and became bureau chief four years later. The friendship is good-humored. TerHorst helps write some of the better ditties crooned at Washington's annual Gridiron Club dinner, and one recent effort included this spoof of Gerald Ford's close ties...
...Nixon liked to read instead of newspapers and magazines, became a symbol of his self-imposed isolation. However, terHorst says that Ford supplements the summary by reading at least ten newspapers: the Washington Post and Star-News, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit News and Free Press, the Grand Rapids Press, the Baltimore Sun and the Christian Science Monitor. Also on his list are TIME, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report...
...endless system of roads becomes the intricate network through which some elusive goal, some beckoning fortune is pursued. The highway is a slender thread between a worn past and an alluring future. And after a while, after enough stops along the way, the endpoints of past and future, of Detroit and New Orleans and Seattle and Baltimore, fade away, and the unfolding of the road itself becomes the important event. And so, perhaps it is only while traveling, in a state of flux and transition, that the American finds his identity, a fleeting identity which is all present and which...