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...year marked the return of DaimlerChrysler's Dodge division to stock-car racing. Chrysler, despite deep corporate troubles, had committed north of $60 million to the effort, and it was out for glory. "Dodge's appearance certainly did increase the level of competition," says Kevin Kennedy, a spokesman for Ford's racing division. "There was [Dodge] red everywhere you went in Daytona...
...elections and Ford Broncos...
...Interest in government picked up during the Florida imbroglio, but that's the equivalent of saying that curiosity about Ford Broncos increased during the O. J. Simpson trial. It's now settled back into our normal sense that what's important in life goes on everywhere else but Washington. "Americans care a whole lot more about what's going on at the Piggly Wiggly than in Washington," says pollster Jefrey Pollack of the Global Strategies Group...
...judicial system for two decades and who got richer by trading with Iran, Clinton used an absolute power of the office in a way no President had before. U.S. history has seen its share of controversial presidential pardons: Andrew Johnson's of Jefferson Davis fueled his impeachment; Gerald Ford's of Richard Nixon helped cost him his re-election. But while Johnson and Ford paid a price in their time, history has also found larger purposes in those decisions. Even the elder Bush's Christmas 1992 pardon of Caspar Weinberger after the Iran-contra scandal--which had a self-serving...
...operation. Attached to the libraries are privately funded museums and foundations. These have become minor tourist attractions (presidential libraries combined get some 2 million visitors annually) and, in some cases, major employment programs for the ex-Presidents' pals. Because the presidency keeps getting bigger, so do the libraries. Gerald Ford's library has more documents than F.D.R.'s. No wonder Presidents leave office with a tin cup in hand. "They've become mendicants in some ways," says a presidential-library official. L.B.J. got the Texas legislature to help fund his; George Bush received $1 million each from Saudi Arabia...