Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Texas. Oddly, Richard Nixon's time came in triumph. After his victory in 1972, he went to Camp David and there, in lonely anger, decided to reconstitute his Government by firing loyal workers and convinced himself that his position made him invincible to the Watergate investigators. And Jerry Ford, hardly realizing it, helped to seal his rejection in the 1976 election in the first month of his presidency by pardoning Nixon...
...quickly. On the other hand, I haven't seen anything yet that is terribly innovative. This does not bother me-what's new is not necessarily what's good. The problem is that many people voted for him because they thought he would be innovative. Ford did a great job restoring integrity to the White House, but he did not break the feeling of aloofness. Carter has done that. Now I would like to know what he's going to do with it. My evaluation: still mixed...
ALAN GREENSPAN, chief economic adviser in the Ford Administration; member of TIME'S Board of Economists. At first I was concerned that Carter would foster programs that would reverse much of the progress that President Ford had made in defusing the inflationary bias in our economy. Now, although I can scarcely say that all of my concerns have been stilled, I view the President a good deal more positively. His campaign commitments to achieve a balanced budget by fiscal year 1981 appeared to be little more than rhetoric-and, indeed, they may end up that way. But now they...
Before the election I believed that with a President and Congress of the same party there was a greater chance of generating effective economic policy. I am sorry to say that has not been the case. Carter is righting with Congress the same way Ford did, and he has ended up being saddled with a stimulus package that is unbalanced. There is virtually nothing in it for the middle class. The only across-the-board benefit would have been the $50 rebate. Carter spent a lot of political capital in trying to get it, and then lost face by abandoning...
...last week sent $13 million in "nonlethal" equipment (including a C-130 transport, radio equipment and aircraft parts) but turned down Mobutu's request for arms and ammunition. During last year's presidential campaign, Jimmy Carter had opposed the Ford Administration's arms sales to Zaire, saying they were "fueling the East-West arms race in Africa." While watching the developments in Zaire closely, the new Administration remains hopeful that Nigeria's mediating efforts may still succeed. Behind the scenes, Washington may have played a part in soliciting aid for Mobutu from Morocco, France and Egypt...