Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These are formidable conditions. The right-wing diehards, far from recognizing any need to move toward the middle to win broader support, already argue that Ford's defeat "proves" that they were right in the first place and would have done better with Reagan. Yet, most important of all, the Republicans must find a candidate who can appeal to diverse constituencies, notably the rising independents...
...Gerald Ford, after his heartbreaking defeat, will probably retire to private life. re-emerging at rubber-chicken campaign banquets and on Old Timers' Night at future national conventions (see box). But even though he will probably not run again for public office (he will be 67 in 1980), his surprising showing this November will enhance his stature as a party spokesman and senior adviser. Ronald Reagan will play a similar, if perhaps lesser role. He will be 69 in 1980-which may be too old to try again-but he will retain great influence, particularly through his weekly columns...
...minority party, the Republicans have a formidable flock of other vote getters, mostly young moderates. Tennessee's Howard Baker Jr., 50, the ranking Republican on the Senate Watergate committee, was passed over by Gerald Ford for the vice-presidential nomination-in what now seems to have been a blunder. Baker, intensely ambitious and able, may well become an active candidate for the top job. Still another possibility, though he begins from a small base, is Iowa's enormously popular Governor Robert D. Ray, a tireless campaigner who often ends a day of politicking with a family snack...
...Republicans may also cast an eye toward Texas, where former Governor John Connally, 59, the backslid Democrat, has his eyes on 1980. A spellbinding speaker who looks as well as talks like a President (at least a Texas-style President), he stumped the Lone-Star State with Ford and traveled nationwide on behalf of his new party's congressional candidates. Big John has many assets, including an idea (usually conservative) to match almost every problem and plenty of free time and money. But Ford's loss of Texas, on top of Connally's old wheeler-dealer reputation...
...Gerald Ford could not quite bring it off. But he came achingly close to duplicating the upset victory of the fighting underdog he so much admired, Harry Truman, and he cannot be faulted for not trying. From the beginning, it was a long shot-an accidental President swept into office on a wave of scandal, stuck with the worst recession since World War II, confronted with a charismatic opponent in a bitter primary fight and then with an all-things-to-all-people Democrat in the general election...