Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be willing to complete a quick SALT II agreement with the Soviet Union, basically confirming the limitation on nuclear weapons agreed upon by President Ford and Leonid Brezhnev in 1974, without resolving the continuing controversy over whether the Soviet Union's Backfire bomber and the U.S. cruise missile should come under the set ceilings. Carter would allow that question to be decided later. This idea had also been proposed by Ford and rejected by the Russians, who, however, may be more receptive...
...Chief -all were seen as moving Carter closer to the people. "That spirit of mutuality, that feeling that all Americans are part of the Government and not apart from it, is a feeling that we have missed for years now," editorialized the Dallas Times Herald, which endorsed Ford...
...even this story partially was reported last November in the Times, and Reeves simply doesn't add much more. This means that some of the most interesting reading comes in the footnotes to Convention, where Reeves mentions the rumors that some New York congressmen voted not to override President Ford's veto of the strip-mining bill in exchange for a key Virginia congressman's vote for New York as the convention site...
...from Cambridge. It was a blazing prairie day; the streets baked, and the heat compounded my fatigue. The Republican National Convention had started that morning, and the town was swarming with conventioneers. My friend and I parked our car, and drifted uptown to the Radisson Muehlbach Hotel, where President Ford was due to arrive at any minute. We couldn't see anything for the milling Ford Youth and police lines, so my friend suggested we get a beer in the bar of the hotel across the street and watch the Ford motorcade from the bar window, which was above street...
...were watching the madness, the contrived madness of the Ford Youth outside across the thin air-conditioned glass membrane. But it seemed the true madness was inside. Ford disappeared into the Muehlbach, Harry Truman's old hotel, and the onlookers began to disperse. My friend and I left the bar. The little girl was still delivering her spiel...