Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strength of that image can not be overestimated. For not only has it vitiated any critical focus on Gerald Ford's record, but it has also surrounded the man with an aura of virtue that is in fact denied by Ford's record in office and his performance in the presidential campaign. The American people have been conned before, and apparently they are being conned again. Before election day arrives, a look at old newspapers might 'be worthwhile, for too many things seem to have been forgotten...
...Congressman, Ford mastered the art of parliamentary sleight of hand, allowing him to claim that he had voted for final passage of every major piece of civil rights legislation, and simultaneously that he had fought to stop each piece of civil rights legislation until the final vote. As Nixon's servant in the House, Ford strongly denied ever having known of an American president providing false or deceptive information. In fact, he had already been privately briefed on Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia, a policy the administration was publicly denying...
...possibility that Ford took a hand in aiding Nixon's effort to block an early investigation of Watergate by the House Banking Committee has not been foreclosed. It has not yet been established whether Ford was a witting accomplice in the coverup, but he certainly had been following Nixon's orders for four years without once questioning the motives behind those orders...
THROUGHOUT THE Watergate investigations, then Vice-President Ford continually attacked the talk of impeachment as a "massive propaganda campaign" by the Americans for Democratic Action and organized labor in their effort to take over Congress and the country...
Even after he was informed by Nixon's chief of staff, Alexander Haig, that the new taped evidence that was about to be surrendered to Judge Sirica would result in the President's impeachment, Ford told a crowd in Louisiana, "I believe the President is innocent. I don't want any impression created that I've changed my mind about the President's innocence." Later, as President, Ford would reverse his strident stand against immunity for Richard Nixon and issue a blanket pardon. In addition, he supported an administration ruling giving all Nixon tapes and documents to the former President...