Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FOUR DAYS PRIOR to the Texas primary, Ford authorized continued production of the Minuteman missile--including a new warhead for the missile--to the tune of nearly $380 million. Three months earlier, the Defense Department had discontinued Minuteman production, reporting that additional missile deployment would add little to national security and was in any case not worth the cost...
...year war in Vietnam drew to a close in 1975, President Ford tried to keep it going with an urgent appeal for $1 billion more in American arms. He took military action against Cambodia over the seizure of the Mayaguez in the face of a law that expressly prohibits the use of U.S. forces in Indochina. He secretly aided factions in the Angolan civil war and, had Congress not prevented it with legislation, would have escalated American involvement. These are strange actions for a man who repeatedly extols the virtues of peace for its own sake, and takes credit...
...Ford's management of the economy has included attempts to cut $14 billion from social programs, including child nutrition programs, educational benefits to Vietnam veterans, Medicare subsidies and public jobs programs. While vetoing social welfare programs because of their expense, the President recommend increases in defense spending that would have paid for the programs he vetoed and many more. Ford's opposition to government spending is clearly a narrow one. He has no such qualms about granting large businesses extensive subsidies and tax advantages, or providing the military with all the money it desires...
While the virtuous image of Gerald Ford is strained by his record in office, it literally comes apart in his campaign for re-election. Before the critical primary struggle with Reagan in Texas, Ford nominated a record number of local politicians and assorted favorite sons and daughters in Texas for federal jobs. The list of Texans he appointed include the director of the CIA, the ambassadors to Britain, Norway, Australia and Trinidad-Tobago, an interstate commerce commissioner, a federal maritime commissioner, an assistant secretary of state, two U.S. district judges, assistant secretary of the interior, director of the Corporation...
During his Florida campaign, Ford promised that the Republicans' 1974 gubernatorial nominee, Jerry Thomas, would be appointed undersecretary of the treasury. An Orlando defense plant suddenly received a $33.6 million contract, and the federal government suddenly came through with a $15.2 million grant to launch Miami's long awaited transit system...