Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to try to be ready by the time Congress convenes in January with an alternative Budget in Brief [to that which President Ford will be submitting]. We are already consulting with the leaders of the budget committees in the House and Senate, as well as other congressional leaders, so that we can move rapidly in trying to make the first budget in my Administration answer the questions that I've raised-to fulfill the promises I've made...
Plains did not go completely for the man who put it on the map: the final tally was 481 Carter, 99 Ford. For those 99-and in Plains anybody who doesn't wear a Carter button is suspect-life may now be a bit chilly. "I just don't understand it," said a shopkeeper. "Jealousy, I suppose." Said the storekeeper next door: "I couldn't vote for somebody just because he lived here...
About the time that the hopes of Gerald Ford began to run thin Tuesday night, there were only three people standing outside the iron fence along Pennsylvania Avenue looking at the floodlighted White House...
Maybe that was Ford's final legacy to this nation-a transition of power so tranquil that nobody in Washington felt compelled to take to the street in his anguish. They had stood in muted knots by the hundreds after John Kennedy was assassinated and Lyndon Johnson took over the office and went about his duties on the night of Nov. 22, 1963. It was a nightmarish time of conflicting emotions in the world of power. There is the chance that now, after 13 long and often painful years, our political system is finally returning to something like normal...
...came on Tuesday night. It was almost as if they felt secure at last, a singular tribute to what Ford had been, but also a declaration for change in the future...