Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no yeastier time in Washington than the start of a new Administration. Everything is suddenly different-faces, names, programs, style. So the members of our bureau found it last week as they reported for this week's cover story. The Ford White House had been relatively open (certainly compared with the fortress-like conditions of the Nixon era), but so far at least the Carter Administration is even more accessible...
...posts overseas, noting that the Administration intended to conduct foreign policy "as openly as possible" and in ways that reflect "traditional American values." In the same spirit, he prohibited his staff from having secretaries secretly record or monitor telephone conversations. The practice was common in the Nixon and Ford administrations (New York Times Columnist William Safire dubbed the transcripts "the dead-key scrolls"). Carter liked Vance's order so much that he extended it to the White House; other Cabinet members are expected to follow suit...
...most part, the Carter takeover of the levers of power at the White House went smoothly. But there were some glitches. Robert Seamans Jr., a Ford appointee, waited until almost the last minute before resigning as administrator of the Energy Research and Development Administration. He had hopes of keeping his job but got the message when Energy Chief James Schlesinger did not return his phone calls. Another problem occurred when Jordan tried to fire the staff of the White House Council on International Economic Policy. He discovered that he lacks the authority...
Using the license available to a lame-duck Administration, the Ford CEA report acknowledged a politically touchy and therefore long-ignored reality: "full employment" no longer means a jobless rate of 4%, the level generally accepted in the '50s and early '60s. The Ford report pegs it at 4.9%. Many economists suggest that it should be even higher, perhaps as much...
...after her return to the U.S. She served more than six years in prison, then moved to Chicago where she has been managing an Oriental import shop. Three times she has asked for a presidential pardon-"a measure of vindication." On his last full day as President, Gerald Ford agreed and granted D'Aquino, now 60, a "full and unconditional" pardon on the grounds that it was "the right thing to do and the proper time...