Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Federal Government picks up the tab for pensions, offices, staffs, round-the-clock Secret Service protection, maintenance for lavish presidential libraries and a gamut of other expenses ranging from car washes to cable-TV rentals to joke writers' fees. All this, Chiles points out, even though Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon are already millionaires from lucrative memoirs, speaking engagements and television deals. Says Chiles: "We seem to have allowed these people to go from working Presidents to retirement as royalty...
...year. These modern pyramids have been getting ever more grandiose. Franklin D. Roosevelt started the trend when he built his own library at Hyde Park, N.Y., while still in office. Although he was President for only onesixth as long as Roosevelt, and in a time of less historical importance, Ford has a library in Ann Arbor, Mich., and a museum in Grand Rapids that boast 50% more space than F.D.R...
...last year. Congress had to pass a $1 million supplemental appropriation after Lady Bird Johnson cruised the Greek islands with friends and twelve Secret Service agents. The measure would also stipulate that the profits retired Presidents earn from books written at Government expense would revert to the Treasury. Nixon, Ford and Carter all had help from Government-paid staffers in writing their bestselling memoirs...
Spokesmen for the trio of past Presidents say they are judicious about spending Government money. Of $800,000 Carter received for his transition, he returned $128,000. Ford regularly gives back $12,000 to $14,000 a year in expenses. When Nixon moved from Manhattan to a house in Saddle River, N.J., he spent $50,000 of his own money to convert a carport into a Secret Service command post. Ford Aide Robert Barrett defends the federal allowances. Says he: "It's the only reasonable way to deal with what former Presidents have to deal with." -By Maureen Dowd...
...have an amazing set of true Lincoln documents?the most extraordinary that have come to us in many, many years." After publication of the Atlantic's first installment, however, a storm of criticism erupted. "You are putting over one of the crudest forgeries I have known," protested Worthington Chauncey Ford, 72, editor of the Massachusetts Historical Society, in a letter to Sedgwick. Even Barton sadly wrote to Minor, "I have come to the conviction that the letters which you are sending to the Atlantic are not genuine. And, my dear, I am afraid you know...