Word: forde
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Others were not so certain that the FIA alone was to blame. The owner of Ratzenberger's Simtek Ford said his driver's fatal accident was caused by a malfunction in the front end of the car. Might Senna's crash have been a case of driver error? "Ayrton Senna made a mistake," Carweek magazine quoted Williams-Renault technical director Patrick Head as saying. "We have checked the telemetry. He slightly lifted his foot just at that dip in the place where the tarmac changes. That caused a loss of grip from the car." A Williams spokesman later denied that...
...this time Reagan had got the political bug, and he watched Nixon and listened to him. After Nixon's Watergate humiliation, it was Reagan who made certain Nixon was on the delegation, which also included Ford and Carter, sent to the funeral of Egypt's Anwar Sadat...
...much history, thought Ford as he listened to the eulogies on that clouded and chilly California afternoon last week when Nixon was buried beside his wife Pat at the Nixon library and birthplace in Yorba Linda. Ford was Nixon's closest political colleague. "I treasured his friendship," Ford said later. "When I took the oath of office in the well of the House in 1949, the very first person who came up to shake my hand was Dick Nixon...
...Ford looked stricken. In fact, all five Presidents gathered below Nixon's casket were dramatically reminded that even the toughest actors are ultimately swept from the great stage. And with them such rich memories of the old campaigns. "I asked him to come to Grand Rapids to make a Lincoln Day speech, and he stayed at my parents' home," said Ford. "He slept in a four-poster bed with sideboards. Later, when he became President, my mother hung up a sign on the bed, THE PRESIDENT SLEPT HERE...
Jimmy Carter, who without the Nixon apocalypse and pardon by Ford probably never would have been President, came quietly to the rain-soaked green below Nixon's coffin. His presence was his testimony, going beyond old denunciations and bitter assessments. Carter carries the memory of going on that presidential mission to Sadat's funeral and at first feeling uncomfortable about being on the same plane as Nixon. But they surveyed each other warily in the confines of the fuselage, then self-consciously greeted and sat down and talked genially about foreign policy. In a moment they had become sort...