Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Using the power of his incumbency. Ford made news by announcing a new U.S. drive for an international agreement to control the spread of plutonium, which can be used to make nuclear weapons. Since May, Carter has also been calling for controls against the proliferation of nuclear arms...
Another dustup occurred after Carter, backed by a U.S. Information Agency poll, claimed the U.S. had lost prestige abroad. Ford retorted by noting the recent U.S. sweep of Nobel Prizes. A group of U.S. Nobel prizewinners thereupon attacked Ford. Harvard Chemist George Kistiakowsky spoke for ten Nobel laureates in arguing that Ford had been too stingy with his budget "to encourage the growth of American science...
...TIME correspondents looked back over the campaign during its final days, they detected mounting evidence that voters were not as apathetic as they had generally been portrayed. There is a widespread feeling that neither candidate is good enough, but that judgment may be somewhat unfair; Ford has been a better President than he has often been given credit for. and Carter's accomplishment in making himself a national figure is formidable. Yet, neither candidate has a passionate following, defined a single overriding issue. If the number of undecided voters remains high, it might be less a matter of boredom than...
...candidates. Saturated with information, they have come to know the strengths and frailties of the two men only too well?and that may be what is giving so many voters pause. There has been too much attention paid by the press to relatively minor flaps: Carter's Playboy interview, Ford's tangled tongue, what to do about Earl Butz. Yet a fairly accurate assessment of each man has emerged...
Carter's is by far the quicker mind. He is both bolder and capable of more brilliance than Ford. His compassion for the underdog in U.S. society seems sincere. But he also seems shifty. He showed that in Georgia by campaigning as a conservative and governing as a liberal. His religiosity is genuine, yet there is a mean streak in him. The blue eyes can turn cold, and his ready tongue can lacerate a foe. When he cools off, he often apologizes. Whether it is out of Christian charity or practical considerations is unclear. Carter is supremely ambitious, self-confident...