Word: forde
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Perhaps only twice in the past half-century have we had Presidents who did not become, in one way or another, cut off from the country. Those two, and both | served briefly, were John Kennedy and Gerald Ford, vigorous men, not backslappers but they liked to get around, fond of sports, parties--Kennedy cool but alive with intellectual curiosity, Ford stolid and very comfortable with all kinds of people. Both tapped in often on the judgment of friends outside the White House...
...plain Americanness, Reagan is more like Ford or Truman or Eisenhower. But he is a better politician than Ford or Truman, and has had more of an idea of what he wanted to do as President than Ike did. Reagan neatly stood on its head a cherished assumption of most students of the presidency: that vigorous, ebullient presidential leadership would naturally aim at expanding the role of the Federal Government (and the Chief Magistrate), and that any President of contrary outlook would necessarily be a cold, crabbed type or at best likably lazy. Franklin Roosevelt was the exemplar...
...bought a Cadillac last week," Foreman said the other day. "I mean, it's been eight years since I had a decent car. I love this truck"--as he spoke, he was driving his Ford pickup around his 200-acre ranch outside Marshall, Texas--"but it's a truck. I got rid of the Mercedes, the Rolls-Royce, all that stuff, because it made people stiffen up. Like they wanted to compete. They're more relaxed when I don't have a good car. But I needed a car, an American car, and I needed a big car because...
...Moscow George F. Kennan and Gerard Smith, chief negotiator of the SALT I treaty, Bundy recently urged the U.S. and NATO to adopt a no-first-strike policy toward nuclear weapons, and has said that President Reagan's Star Wars proposal does not "respect reality." Head of the Ford Foundation from 1966 to 1979, Bundy, 66, is now a history professor at New York University. His conclusions about Viet Nam are the opposite of Martin's. "It was not Watergate that made Saigon's survival impossible," he has written. "It was the fatal . . . imbalance between what (South Viet Nam) would...
There have been earlier instances of American support for uprisings against regimes inimical to the U.S., but they were sporadic and a number ended in failure. In the Nixon and Ford Administrations, Henry Kissinger worked through the Shah of Iran to support Kurdish separatists inside Iraq, but in 1975 the Shah pulled the plug on the Kurds in exchange for Iraqi concessions in a border dispute. When Kissinger sought to back the pro-Western factions in the Angolan civil war, he was thwarted by Congress, which was then in the throes of its post-Viet Nam withdrawal syndrome...