Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Ford has a handicap estimated at 16 and is often known to play a Sunday breakfast round with other politicos at Washington's all-male Burning Tree golf club. Ford belted a drive further than Arnold Palmer at the opening ceremonies of the World Gold Hall of Fame and teamed with Jack Nicklaus in the Jackie Geason pro-am. Former presidents Nixon and Eisenhower were also avid golfers while in the oval office. The switch from gold to fishing in the White House signals a deep-rooted transition in the national temperament. The country is already heading in more...
...MADMAN who stands in front of the Pieta with a hammer in his pocket isn't alone in wanting to go down in history. Presidents can feel the urge with equally disastrous results. Richard Nixon's need to keep the tapes was his downfall, and Gerald Ford's last grand gesture, proposing statehood for Puerto Rico, was his last blunder. Ford had an enthusiasm for drives and campaigns with the flair of Chamber of Commerce resolutions. And, whether impeaching Earl Warren, Whipping Inflation Now, or inoculating every American for swine flu, they tended to fizzle out quickly. Still, when...
...image after James Sasser, a former chairman of Tennessee's Democratic Party, took away his Senate seat in November. But the handsome Brock, heir to a candy making fortune, is a good nuts-and-bolts organizer who is conservative enough for Reagan's people though he backed Ford for the presidency last year. He has opposed foreign aid and handgun licensing, but did vote with the liberals against no-knock legislation...
...people on a payroll-any payroll-they can be expensive relative to their effectiveness. Public works projects, by nature, are not heavy employers. The Commerce Department calculates that at best only 35% of the money spent on construction projects winds up as wages in the pockets of workers. Ford Administration officials figure that the $2 billion in public works grants they awarded last month will create no more than 80,000 jobs...
...could have danced all night," sang First Lady Betty Ford- and to prove it she took a turn or two around the floor of the Ford's private White House quarters last week with Canadian Photographer Yousuf Karsh. During a 3½ hr. portrait session, Karsh caught Betty in a reflective pose after he told her that his Ottawa home is called Little Wings. She promptly produced a small Boehm porcelain-bird figurine from among the household possessions. After his own portrait session, President Ford asked Karsh to get in touch the next time he visits Palm Springs, Calif...