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...Ford says the committee, which also includedthen-Secretary to the Corporation Robert Shenton,heard testimony from students and professors,including Krupp Foundation Professor of EuropeanStudies Charles S. Maier. Efforts to reach Maierwere unsuccessful...
...disappointment many felt about Jimmy Carter can be heard when voters speak about Clinton. And the words they use are the same Gerald Ford heard about himself in the job: "Not decisive; doesn't seem to have a clear view of where he is going; can't conceive of him as President even though he already is." But unlike Carter and Ford, Clinton is a phenomenal campaigner, one of the best ever. So the President's shrewdest move may be to play as if he were in the National Basketball Association. N.B.A. teams routinely seem to dog it until...
...conservatives-from abortion to affirmative action. He announced his candidacy last week wearing the red-and-black plaid flannel shirt that became his trademark when he walked 1,022 miles across Tennessee during his first successful campaign for Governor, in 1978. And over the summer, he drove his red Ford Explorer 8,500 miles across the country, meeting with typical Americans, often staying up late to discuss their concerns and sleeping overnight in their homes...
...jumping into the G.O.P. presidential primaries in a way the political oddsmakers see as quixotic: he is already vastly out-financed and out-organized. Until he decided to test the presidential waters, Lugar was best known for being passed over for the vice-presidential jobs taken by Gerald Ford, George Bush and most ignominiously in 1988 by his junior Indiana counterpart Dan Quayle. He survived that indignity with grace. Now he senses there is a hunger in the country for a grownup who excels at foreign policy, a quiet statesman who worries more about the next generation than the next...
...just extremely fortunate to have him," Ford added...