Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidential campaign were two weeks longer, neither Ford nor Carter would be elected...
...first time in my life (60 yrs.), I shall not vote for the man I think is best qualified (McCarthy) to lead our country. I shall vote for Carter in the hope of getting the least qualified out of office-Ford...
...debates were a mistake. Instead of giving the voters a basis for substantive comparison, they have made imagery and theatrics more important than issues. Ford's blooper will be recalled long after Carter's non-responses have faded from memory. Vague sermons on morality will never stop a war. The naive desire to bring heaven to earth through federal spending will bring catastrophe instead...
Soon, with a climactic barrage of TV and radio pitches, it would all be over. Each candidate would make his final, election-eve television appeal?Jimmy Carter from a relaxed setting in his study in small-town Plains, Ga.; Gerald Ford from a site to be selected at the last moment, depending on his hectic closing schedule. Then, relieved that the campaign had ended, millions of Americans would cast ballots. Other millions, unmoved by it all, would stay home?and perhaps decide the outcome...
...doubt. The fresh face of the Deep South's first major-party presidential candidate since 1848 had grown all too familiar. His lead in the public opinion polls had fallen further and faster than that of any previous presidential candidate. Yet he clung to a narrow edge. Old Footballer Ford had plunged on, head down and 3 yds. per carry, and was within striking distance of his greatest goal...