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...appeal. The cartoon side of the show attracts younger viewers. But unlike most cartoons, "The Simpsons" has a "high level" of comedy and parody that keeps old viewers tuned in. Watching Homer trip over the curb can be funny to a nine-year-old, watching him trip with Gerald Ford is funny to anyone who knows anything about Gerald Ford. Essentially, viewers are weaned on "The Simpsons." They are hooked at a very early age, and keep coming back. Every time I watch a rerun episode "I get" a joke I had missed the last time, and "The Simpsons" earns...
...James Addison Baker is still the Franchise Player, the man around whom every Republican President has built his team since 1975. He has been Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, White House chief of staff and, for a brief stretch under Gerald Ford, acting Secretary of Commerce (edging out George Shultz for the modern record for most top jobs). Along the way, Baker has run or overseen six campaigns for President: one for Ford, two for Ronald Reagan and three for the elder George Bush. It's a resume no one else in either party can match...
...when George W. woke up and realized that all those top-secret three-ring binders marked TRANSITION--WEEK ONE were going to be useless for a while. It was Dick Cheney who came up with the idea of calling Baker out of retirement. He has known Baker since the Ford Administration (when Cheney was White House chief of staff), and Baker spent election night in Cheney's Austin, Texas, hotel suite. It has not been lost on Bush loyalists, attuned to signs of who's really in charge, that Cheney decided who was going to Tallahassee, Fla., in the critical...
...Bush Administration, Bush's choice to succeed Cheney would have to be approved by both houses of Congress, a process set out in the 25th Amendment to the Constitution. In 1973, when Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced to step down in a kickback scandal, Richard Nixon named Gerald Ford to replace him, in part because Ford was House minority leader, which made quick approval in Congress more likely. By contrast, Ford's selection of Nelson Rockefeller, a congressional outsider, was held up for months by hearings into Rockefeller's finances...
Having faced bankruptcy roughly once a decade for the past half-century, Chrysler is no stranger to market adversity. But this time around, the merger really threw the team off its game. As the entire auto industry braces for a slowdown (General Motors and Ford are warning of sales declines beginning this month and into next year), Schrempp and his new Chrysler team are struggling to come up with a rescue plan...