Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scrambler Phone. He also seemed very exuberant about some of the perquisites that go with his new job. When Gerald Ford dispatched a sleek Air Force 707 to Albany, Ga., to carry Carter on the 26-minute flight to St. Simons Island, the President-elect said boyishly: "That's what I've been waiting for." The aircraft had been used as one of several Air Force One presidential jets; it was the plane aboard which L.B.J. took the oath of office after John Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. Carter roamed the plane in a cardigan sweater...
...Ford, too, was relaxing last week after his gallant but futile uphill campaign against Carter. In Palm Springs, Calif., the President and his family were ensconced in a palm-shaded, 14-room villa owned by U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Leonard Firestone; it is part of a millionaires' development called Rancho Mirage. Ford worked at his rusty golf game at some of the swankest courses on the Coast: Thunderbird, La Quinta and Eldorado. "Relax," he told reporters. "Have a good time. No pressure." For the first time since he became President, his staff did not even refer to the journey...
...endeavors is recognized by the Harvard community at large. If there truly is a commitment to the theater here, especially Black Theater, it is seen only in the endless hours and energy put into productions for personal gratification and not for academic credit. We have already learned through the Ford Committee's findings that such a discipline should retain its non-credit standing at the present time. That stance has been accepted...
...enthusiastic, determined and has a good sense of humor," Ford said. "Though we had a bad year, he wasn't to blame. The team couldn't have made a better choice...
...Every word of Carter's speeches was examined under a microscope," Wicker said, adding that President Ford was not as accessible to the press...