Word: foe
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Several of Ford's political friends, either by their choice or Nixon's, had not been in the White House for years: former New York Republican Senator Charles Goodell, a longtime Nixon foe; Michigan Representative Donald Riegle Jr., who deserted the G.O.P. to become a Democrat early in 1973; and Democratic Senator Philip Hart. The stage was set for the transfer of the world's most powerful political office from Richard Nixon, even then airborne over Missouri on his way to California and retirement, to Gerald Ford...
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...
...over and now Bradlee wanted simply to report events. When a Women's Wear Daily reporter penetrated Bradlee's office, the executive editor personally ejected her with the admonition: "This is not the place to be writing about." In Boston, Globe Editor Tom Winship, another longtime Nixon foe, impassively watched the speech with his newsroom staff, then remarked quietly: "He went out with dignity...
...what he can accomplish in his new advisory role. "I'm not sure what can or has to be done," he says with characteristic candor. But he does know that a drop in crude-oil prices would do wonders to ease world financial imbalance. And, as a sharp foe of controls, he enthusiastically supports the Administration's anti-inflationary policy of laissez-faire. He will press hard for reduced Government spending aimed at balancing the budget in fiscal '76. To Greenspan, budget deficits are the incendiary fuel of inflation; they force the Government to compete with private...
Editors and publishers are not laughing. Some news executives indeed agree that biased liberals bent on vengeance are using Watergate to bring down an old foe. That is the view, for instance, of Eugene C. Pulliam (Arizona Republic, Phoenix Gazette, Indianapolis Star), Franklin B. Smith (Burlington, Vt, Free Press) and William Loeb (Manchester, N.H., Union Leader...