Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...given more good jobs to women than any previous Administration. No other President had more than one woman Cabinet member; now there are two-Commerce's Juanita M. Kreps and HUD's Patricia Roberts Harris. Carter has named two women as Under Secretaries (compared with Ford's one), 15 as Assistant Secretaries or officials of equivalent rank (four for Ford). In the Executive Office of the President, there are five female officials at "level 4 or over," a bureaucratic classification denoting jobs paying at least $50,000. Ford's White House...
...voted to bar nuclear plants and waste-disposal facilities in their towns. The Wisconsin legislature is now considering several bills that would restrict or ban nuclear plants. In a January interview with the Conservation Foundation Letter, Russell Train, who headed the Government's Environmental Protection Agency under President Ford, called for "the phasing out and eventual elimination of all nuclear power...
...former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger now privately concedes, he and other top officials in the Nixon and Ford administrations had one major failing: an ignorance of international economics. No one was more aware of that shortcoming than the U.S.'s allies, who were often hurt and confused by American insensitivity to their economic problems...
...Trading with the Third World. Kissinger toyed with the idea of commodity price stabilization agreements that would insulate developing countries from wild swings in their earnings from export sales of raw materials, but Ford's Treasury Secretary, William Simon, an ardent free-trader, knocked it down. No such conflicts have shown up in the Carter Administration. The President, while not committing the U.S. to stabilization plans, seems willing to discuss them. The Administration last week informed a United Nations meeting in Geneva that it is ready to talk about the financing of stabilization plans...
...progressive but hard-nosed political pro, saved Boston from chaos in 1974 by pleading, cajoling and threatening the city's many factions-including its antibusing police-through wearying hours of public meetings, private coffee klatches, telephone calls and stormy sessions with top aides. White even assailed President Gerald Ford for expressing personal opposition to busing at the height of Boston's agony. For all that, the mayor wound up sitting "alone on a bench on Boston Common with his head in his hands. He could no more hide his emotions from the city than it could from...