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TUCKER. Francis Ford Coppola fashions a grand entertainment from the heroic efforts of Preston Tucker to market his 1947 "car of tomorrow...
...experiment. I did not enjoy it, and I deeply regret my foolish behavior." Few ambitious baby boomers are willing to talk honestly about what they learned from '60s-era dabbling in soft drugs for fear of sounding as if they were about to check in to the Betty Ford Clinic...
Former President Gerald Ford, who was banished to post-prime time when convention organizers decided he was history. But Ford, who looks as though he has not aged a day since leaving the White House, gave a solid, well-reasoned speech that actually helped answer the question "Where was George...
...less than his immediate predecessors. He hired from within the agency and assuaged the fears professional intelligence men have of career politicians. His one offense to the honor of the agency was opening its files extensively to critics outside the Government, and that was done in response to President Ford's effort to placate the growing revolt of right-wingers. They believed the CIA estimates of Soviet strength were understated. Bush appointed a committee of outsiders ("Team B") to use the same evidence CIA professionals had at their disposal and come up with their own estimate of Soviet strength. Four...
...reward for his service under fire, Bush hoped that President Ford would give him the job dangled as part of Nixon's original wooing process, the vice presidency. But that went to Nelson Rockefeller, and Bush -- ironically, given his denunciation of the People's Republic when he was at the U.N. -- became America's envoy to China...