Word: forde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boys had to be fetched from shore in a dinghy, and then Michel, who has been working at an architectural firm for a year, had to be boated home. On land he proudly drives an old rusted $500 Ford LTD. "Janis hates it," he said, coming aboard. "I had only had little European cars. I very much wanted a big, stupid machine." This was on a Friday, and Michel did a very American thing. He handed his wife his paycheck and got himself a beer...
...intelligence expert has been at the Kennedy School since 1983, and served in the Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations in a variety of defense policy positions...
After an event like Watergate or the Iran-Contra affair, there is a tendency for critics to lay the blame on the White House organization, said Richard B. Cheney, who, when he was chief of staff to President Ford, was critical of his low-key approach to government in the post-Watergate...
...audience of 500 applauded wildly. Most of these activists backed Ronald Reagan as far back as 1976, when he nearly wrested the party's nomination from Gerald Ford. Even today, as Reagan battles his worst political crisis, CPAC's confidence in its hero remains high. Most of the participants consider Iranscam a murky irrelevancy, a distraction from their agenda of a still stronger defense, a reduced government, a return to the "moral values" of yesteryear. When Reagan told the group he was no lame duck but was "saving his best stuff for the last act," some listeners shouted, "Four more...
Kemp's backers sought to dominate the meeting by taking a page from Reagan's 1976 playbook. After he lost the New Hampshire primary, Reagan attacked Henry Kissinger's detente policy and, by implication, Ford's anti-Communist credentials. Reagan's candidacy caught fire almost immediately, and he came close to winning the nomination...