Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy came together in Bonham, Texas, at the funeral of Sam Rayburn in 1961 has such a gathering occurred. The love of Hubert Humphrey was the force. Howard Baker was the arranger. When he learned that Nixon and Ford planned to attend the Humphrey services, Baker invited both to gather in his office. Then he called Rocky and urged him to join them. Kissinger was going to be with the former Vice President, so he was included. Lady Bird Johnson was attending the service, so she too was invited. She asked to bring her daughter...
Rockefeller, Kissinger and their wives arrived first. Then came Jerry and Betty Ford. Nixon was next, with his daughter Tricia. For a fleeting second there was tension. Nixon looked unsure, older than the group remembered him. He did not seem to be the man of impeccable tailoring they recalled. His trousers were even a shade too short. Then Ford and Kissinger went up to Nixon to shake hands. The unease vanished, talk began...
...room and spoke of the strange tides that had swept them all along, and now had brought them together again. Indeed, the sequence of power, the flow of events, fascinated everyone. Mrs. Johnson was there because of John Kennedy's assassination, Nixon because Lyndon Johnson had been President, Ford because of Nixon, Rockefeller because of Ford. And maybe Carter was in the room because Ford had not kept Rockefeller as his vice-presidential candidate. Of course, they were all there to honor a man who, many felt, should have been President before any of those others...
Party Chairman Bill Brock, a former Tennessee Senator, launched the effort after returns from the last presidential election showed that Democrat Jimmy Carter had won an overwhelming 90% of black votes. Carter outpolled Gerald Ford by 1.7 million votes overall; his margin among blacks was 4.7 million votes. As Jackson told his Republican audience...
...been mixed, with buyers generally favoring Detroit's smaller offerings. GM's Chevette, introduced in 1975 as a response to soaring gasoline prices and mandated federal fuel economy standards, is now the industry's hottest seller; its sales have doubled in the past three months. Ford's Fairmont, a new '78 compact, and Mercury's Zephyr have replaced the Maverick and Mercury Comet. They have also been standouts, with sales jumping 300% over their predecessors...