Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...homework (during Inauguration week, he put himself through a 30-hour crash course). He was also helped by his self-deprecating good humor. "Where's the bed?" he exclaimed with a look of mock desperation on his face as he padded down the aisle in tennis shoes. "Jerry Ford promised me there was a bed somewhere on this thing." (In fact, the bed was in the forward section.) Air Force Two had been Henry Kissinger's flying State Department. "We had to have this plane specially exorcised to get rid of Kissinger's ghost," joked the vice...
...Bonn, Mondale gave Chancellor Helmut Schmidt-who had been plugging for Gerald Ford in the election and had been suspicious of Carter's economics-an autographed, ornately bound copy of Carter's Inaugural speech. "Of course," cracked Mondale, "Schmidt said what he really wanted was a bound collection of my speeches...
...defense budget. Mondale reassured alliance leaders that Carter's proposed effort to trim fat from the defense budget would not cut into U.S. contributions to NATO. On the contrary, he promised, the new Administration would preserve a modest increase in the NATO allocation contained in the Ford budget and would propose additional increases if the allies built up their own defenses...
...embark on the road of aggression, will never raise the sword against other nations." He then stressed that "it is necessary to complete [the SALT agreement] in the nearest future ... Time will not wait." Repeatedly, Brezhnev used the word razryadka (relaxation), evoking that old familiar term detente, which Gerald Ford banished from his political lexicon last year...
...urgent matter in the U.S. Soviet dialogue is a new agreement on strategic arms, for the 1972 SALT I limit on missile launchers will expire in October. For nearly five years, negotiators have been seeking some broader formula for a long-term ceiling on strategic weapons. At the Brezhnev-Ford summit at Vladivostok in November 1974, the two leaders agreed that a SALT II accord should limit each superpower to 2,400 strategic nuclear delivery vehicles-including missiles and bombers. A final draft of the SALT II treaty seemed imminent, but complications arose. Many American advocates of arms control pointed...