Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidency was on rare display around Washington last Thursday. First there was the 37th President, deposed Richard Nixon, quoted as saying in a David Frost interview that a President was above the law. Before noon No. 38, Gerald Ford, now a genial Palm Springs jock, was traveling nostalgically through the corridors of power on his second visit as a private citizen to the place he wished he had never left...
...late afternoon Jerry Ford came back strong. He held a "Cabinet meeting," one of the most unusual exercises by a former President yet recorded. Some of the old boys from the Ford team trooped into the board room of the American Enterprise Institute on 17th Street and gathered round the chief just the way they used to do it in the real Cabinet Room. There was a little more laughter this time, but then Ford called them to order and asked them, one at a time, for a thumbnail report on the state of the world in the areas they...
...principles were virtually undisputed, but where could an estimated $2.4 billion be found to carry out the rehabilitation programs? After months of Government inaction during the Ford-Carter transition, the handicapped began demonstrating from San Francisco to Boston. Bending to the sympathy they aroused, Joseph Califano, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, finally signed regulations last month to enforce the legislation, proclaiming as he did so a "new era in civil rights...
Throughout the spring, Stanford University students have actively opposed the administration's policies on South African investment. Last week, 300 Stanford students were arrested during demonstrations protesting the university's refusal to support an anti-apartheid stockholders' resolution at the Ford Motor Company's annual meeting. In recent months, students have mounted protests similar to the Hampshire and Stanford demonstrations at campuses throughout the country, including at the University of Connecticut, Berkeley, and the University of Illinois...
...remember that all heroes are horses' asses." Lindbergh became the most glamorous evangelist of "America first." Roosevelt compared him to a "copperhead." Lindbergh resigned from the Army Air Corps Reserve, and after Pearl Harbor, F.D.R. refused to take him back. Instead, Lindbergh became a technical consultant for Ford and later for United Aircraft. By 1944, he finagled his way to the Pacific as a consultant and, though a civilian, managed to fly 50 combat missions. On one of them, he shot down a Japanese plane...