Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the selflessly professional Vance, after some hesitation, has gradually pushed the State Department back into its once prominent pre-Kissinger role in both planning and executing foreign policy.* This has occurred in part because while Carter is indeed more intensely interested in world affairs than his predecessor, Gerald Ford, he is certainly no more so than John Kennedy or Richard Nixon. And as Carter has rushed to confront many problems both at home and abroad, he has sometimes stumbled by not availing himself of State Department expertise. The lesson has been a painful one for both Carter and Vance...
...SALT II agreement: the Russians should either agree to a drastic reduction in strategic weapons or defer such problems as the Soviet Backfire bomber and U.S. Cruise missile and accept a simple continuation of the modest limitations on offensive weapons tentatively set by Brezhnev and Ford at Vladivostok in 1974. Brezhnev, stung by both the human rights campaign and what sounded like an arms ultimatum, coldly rejected the proposals and in March of last year scolded a red-faced Vance in Moscow...
Although the Center received money from the Ford Foundation for operating expenditures since its founding, these grants were never sufficient to fund either an endowment or post-doctoral fellowships, Bergson said...
...Mellon grant fills the financial gap between limited government financial support and waning grants from the Ford Foundation, which concluded its funding of the Center with a matching grant of $500,000, Bergson said...
Speaking before a crowd of about 150 people in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall, Brokaw mainly answered questions about his years as a White House correspondent during the Nixon and Ford administrations...