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Only two of the founders were left now, thought Jerry Ford: himself and John Allen, the old Congressman from Oakland, California, off someplace in Idaho now. Richard Nixon had been among the three surviving founders of the Chowder and Marching Society, formed in 1949 by 15 fractious young Republicans of the House to oppose monthly bonuses for war veterans, which they considered too costly. Chowder and Marching welded exuberant friendships and accidentally founded a power matrix that helped produce three Presidents and shape an American half-century...
...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 was virtually alone in his support for the new cards. The show may be for adults, but trading cards--even of the super-unhip Beavis and Butt-head--are kids stuff...
...variety of scenarios including "metamorphosis, holidays, childhood, tattoos, and Burger World," were released at the end of April in stores throughout the US and Canada. "I'm ashamed to admit it, but I find them rather amusing and I might be coerced into buying the cards," says J. Lewis Ford...
Former President Ford, who is 80 now, was next to last on the San Francisco program. Looking sturdy as ever, he gave about the same speech he gave on the road in 1976, still saying, "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." The crowd was polite but obviously bored as Ford went on about the federal deficit. They had come for something else. This was not about Washington; it was about them, each of them. Some are practically addicts, trying one motivational session or program...