Word: forde
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hello, everybody ... Mr. President [to Gerald Ford, sitting in the first row], I hereby designate you hall monitor. You have my permission, sir, to whack anybody who gets out of line ... How you all doin'? Just fine, just fine. Look, if I can do this, anybody can do it ... You O.K., really? Everything all right? Did you get enough to eat?" In reply to someone's question as to where Don Imus was going to sit: "No comment. No fair to ask me questions...
According to David Pilbeam, Ford professor of the social sciences and the dean for undergraduate education, Wrangham's book is "well done and full of insights and provocative argument...
Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literature Patrick Ford joined the council today, filling its sole vacant seat
Whatever one makes of the life of McGeorge Bundy [NATION, Sept. 30], former adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, he deserves more than a mention about his superb contribution to the public well-being during his 13 years as president of the Ford Foundation. I worked for the foundation under Bundy, and while he was there, he inspired a staff of independent spirits to make major advances in public broadcasting, civil rights, public-interest law, energy conservation, the education of minorities at all levels, agricultural research in developing countries and much more. RICHARD MAGAT Bronxville, New York
...transform the conflict into an American war--a memo that characterized the plan for massive U.S. ground-force involvement as "rash to the point of folly." Your article also made a grotesque fiction of Bundy's life after he left the government. He was a superb president of the Ford Foundation. Serious historians of the nuclear age consider his book on the atom a great work...