Word: forde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such thing has happened since 1983, actually, when Les Janka quit the White House press office over the lies his superiors were telling about the conquest of Grenada. Before that we have to go back to 1974, when White House Press Secretary Jerald F. terHorst quit after President Ford pardoned Nixon...
...attempted to offer the last word about that tragedy in his 1955 best seller A Night to Remember. In this lively postscript he shows the hopelessness of that ambition. The Titanic, Lord notes, has become a permanent political symbol: "She has been used to depict the troubles of Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan. In British cartoons both the ship and the iceberg have represented Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher." The Titanic is also a lure for trivia buffs: "Who led the ship's band? (Wallace Hartley.) Which smokestack was the dummy? (The fourth.)" And the tragedy furnishes social historians with...
...that for the past 15 years, I have been a director of Abt Associates (as have been Evelyn Murphy, Kenneth Arros, Adam Yarmolinsky and other Democrats). This is not an instance, however, of interest affinity, but a knowledge that permits me easily to endorse his qualifications. Daniel Bell Henry Ford II Professor of Social Science
Representing John Harvard's church, Victor Ford, the current minister of the church, addressed the gathering after Epps had made his remarks. Ford said that when he entered the Boston Latin School in 1943, he was taught that the parents of the school's first high school students in 1635 needed a place to send their seniors...
...people are more qualified to analyze nuclear arms strategy than the author, who served as Director of the CIA under President Richard Nixon, Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford and Energy Secretary under President Jimmy Carter. His assessment for TIME of what almost happened in Reykjavik...