Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most promising people are often mangled by the Government machinery. Harold Hodgkinson, director of HEW'S National Institute of Education during the Ford Administration, wanted to promote a talented secretary but was unable to get her reclassified for a better job. The Civil Service Commission said that if she were reclassified, every other secretary in the agency would have to be reclassified. "There is almost no ability to promote able people from secretarial and clerical positions into leadership posts," he says. "Once people are on a track, you can't get them switched to another...
...Angry Nurses. Two nurses, Sandra Kramer and Valerie Koster, found foul conditions at the Public Health Service Indian Hospital in Shiprock, N. Mex., where they began working in September 1974. They complained to superiors and finally wrote an open letter to President Ford, an action that received considerable local publicity. "The focus here," they said, "is on filling out forms, doing the least work with the least effort and just getting by." The Indian Health Service fired the nurses in January 1975 for "lack ... [of] ability or ... desire to become a responsible employee of the IHS." Public pressure forced...
...envelope containing Passman's "taxi fare"?$10,000 in cash. Investigators do not yet have corroboration of the payments, but there is evidence that Flood and Passman pressured AID on behalf of Airlie. Former AID Official Jarold A. Kieffer wrote to his supervisor and to President Gerald Ford protesting Passman's pressure; an earlier letter from Kieffer to AID'S former deputy administrator John Murphy complained: "It does not matter who the Congressman is, or what his power over us may be, some things are just wrong, and his coercion and demands in this case are wrong...
Many ex-Presidents have earned big bucks from their memoirs,TV appearances and lecture fees. But last week Gerald Ford went a step further: he endorsed a commercial product for money. At a ceremony at Philadelphia's Franklin Mint, one of the world's largest private manufacturers of coins, he struck the first of a series of 100 medals commemorating what are billed as "the most important events of the presidency...
...mint signed Ford last year to select the events?which include Ford's own Bicentennial address?and edit the accompanying texts. The ex-President's aide, Robert Barrett, would not disclose the fee, but he did point out, "Mr. Ford believes in the free-enterprise system." Considering some recent examples of huckstering by ex-politicians, such as the American Express endorsements by Watergate Senator Sam Ervin and onetime Vice-Presidential Candidate William ("Remember me?") Miller. Ford's venture might be said to have its sterling qualities. There is nothing shoddy about the product: a set of the medals in silver...