Word: forde
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BOSTON--Speaking at a Faneuil Hall forum Wednesday night, former President Gerald R. Ford praised the certain Republican nominee, Vice President George Bush, for his extensive foreign policy experience, but accused both Bush and his Democratic rival for the presidency of offering vague solutions for reducing the federal deficit...
...Ford, who ascended to the presidency after Richard M. Nixon resigned in August 1974, mocked Bush's suggestion of a "flexible freeze" and Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' proposal for increasing revenues through better tax collection as means of cutting the deficit. "I haven't seen very much definitive from either," Ford said...
Stressing the need to reduce the federal budget deficit, which he called a "time bomb," Ford said it should be the next president's first priority. Ford defended the Bush campaign's pledge of not raising taxes as a prudent move while stating that a candidate should instead emphasize cutting waste in the federal bureaucracy...
...experience in government, any candidatewho starts out by saying `I'm going to raisetaxes' is using the wrong approach," Ford told thepartisan crowd. "He is telling the bureaucracy,`Don't make the hard decisions' to tighten theirbelts...
...Ford, who was defeated by Jimmy Carter in thetight 1976 election, refrained from assessingDukakis' qualifications for the White House,saying that he didn't know enough about him. Buthe did say that Bush's experiences as acongressman, CIA director and U.S. ambassador tothe U.N. make him uniquely qualified to handlecomplex foreign policy issues as president...