Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...status does not seem to bother the National Republican Congressional Committee, which is pouring $34,000 into his campaign. Franklin's total campaign budget of $225,000 is half again as fat as Clark's $150,000, but both candidates have strong party support. Former President Gerald Ford touted Franklin at a summer fund raiser; Mississippi's Democratic congressional delegation, including Senator John Stennis, held a reception for Clark in Washington...
During the 1976 presidential primaries, Ronald Reagan accused the Ford Administration of maintaining a "mouselike silence" in the face of "blackmail" from Panama's "dictator," General Omar Torrijos. Reagan repeatedly used a line guaranteed to get applause: "When it comes to the Canal, we built it, we paid for it, it's ours and we should tell Torrijos and Co. that we are going to keep it!" Reagan's position appealed to many Americans because he presented the issue, simplistically, as a test of our nation's power and greatness...
...Fraser's pitch ran into conflicting arguments from an unlikely source--Chrysler Chairman Lee A. lacocca. During the Chrysler UAW negotiations, the former Ford executive apparently developed what one local president called "terminal diarrhea of the month," and boasted that rising sales and the recent sale of Chrysler defense factories had left the corporation rolling in the dough. Iacocca's claims may have stoked investor faith in Chrysler stock, but they in turn raised if the company was in such great shape--they weren't reaping the economic benefits rather than being asked to sacrifice even more...
...relations with his successor. I made one courtesy call at the Oval Office, but my relationship with Reagan is nonexistent. I am not asking for an assignment, but I think a former President can certainly be helpful. I called on Nixon and Ford regularly to help me. We briefed them often, possibly more than they actually wanted...
What Kissinger, Ford and Nixon did in the Middle East, I built upon. What they did in China, I built upon. What they did with the SALT negotiations, I built upon. I did not reject. Under Reagan, for the first time in recent history a nonpartisan international effort was set aside. That is still disturbing...