Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been done about the ill-advised comments of General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In a recent interview Brown called Israel "a burden" to the U.S., and Great Britain "a pathetic thing"; in 1974 he had charged that Jews unduly influenced Congress, banks and newspapers. Ford claimed, erroneously, that Brown had been "reprimanded"-a severe step in dealing with high military officers. The general was not even given a personal presidential scolding. much less a formal reprimand. Carter said merely that Ford should have issued a quicker clarification that Brown's statements did not reflect...
...Carter cited his running mate as the kind of person he would bring into Government if he wins. Carter said he was now more sure than ever that Mondale was "the best person qualified to be President if something should happen to me," and declared he had never heard Ford make a similar claim about Robert Dole. Ford defended Dole, who was in the audience with his wife. But, while he said Dole was "fully qualified" to be President, he did not claim that his running mate was the best qualified...
UNEMPLOYMENT. Quite properly, Ford "violently disagreed" with Kraft's assertion that Ford's current economic record is "rotten." Carter was excessive when, in response to Ford's claim of vast economic gains under his Administration, he declared-in the evening's most biting remark: "President Ford ought to be ashamed of making that statement." Yet Carter was correct in pointing out that unemployment reached its highest level since the Depression after Ford took office (8.9% in May 1975). Mistakenly thinking that Carter had specifically referred to low unemployment in the 1950s, Ford said the figures were...
ENVIRONMENT. In trying to defend his Administration's generally weak record on environmental protection, Ford fell into some exaggerations. He claimed he had vetoed a strip-mining-control bill because it would have meant a loss of some 140,000 jobs. In fact, that was an inflated industry claim; in his own veto message last year, Ford contended that it might mean the loss of at most 36,000 jobs. Carter was right in pointing out that the job-conscious United Mine Workers had backed the bill. He was correct too in noting that Ford had held back funds...
SUMMARIES. In their summations, the two candidates expressed their contrasting views of the state of the nation more clearly than in past debates. As Ford sees it, most Americans have a far better life than when he assumed the presidency, and his steady leadership is all that is required to make life even better. Carter took a more downbeat view, arguing that neither the nation nor all too many Americans are that well off and a fresh approach is needed...