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Congressional Ethic...
Gerald Ford likes to call himself a child of Congress; he loves the place, and the affection is returned. He subscribes to what can be called the congressional ethic: a tolerance of differing views, a desire to accommodate, a sense that at the heart of government lies the right to disagree and to have that disagreement voiced and voted. Although he has been a major political figure for many years, Ford has a minor ego that does not get in the way of his politics. Like most men of action, he has a temper, but the bouts pass quickly...
SOCIAL PROBLEMS. In Congress, Ford was a vigorous and persistent foe of the health, education and housing programs advocated by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He has railed against welfare as destructive of the work ethic and endorsed the Nixon Administration's later abandoned family assistance plan, which contained work incentives, as a way out of the welfare mess. Ford was initially leary of federal revenue sharing but later became an enthusiastic supporter; he saw it as a way to help reduce the role of federal agencies in state and local affairs. "We need a national government that...
...very end, Nixon defied analysis. The reason columnists, like auto manufacturers, almost annually proclaimed the emergence of "a new Nixon" lay partly in his remarkable opportunism. Few politicians have ever preached the verities of work ethic, law and order, anti-Communism and the rest with such fervor while so thoroughly readjusting their private dogmas to deal with events. Like an Elmer Gantry intransigent in the pulpit, Nixon knew all about sin and situational ethics in the political streets. The ideological flexibility that allowed him to embrace China and Russia, a guaranteed annual income, and wage and price controls, always troubled...
...Leonard thinks resistance to affirmative action has in part, at least, broken down. "There has been the development of a whole new ethic, a whole new ethos that accompanies the affirmative action program that goes beyond numbers," he says. "There has finally been an acceptance at the University that diversity is a strength...