Word: fords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what has become something of a Ford tradition, the meeting had its full quotient of melodrama and mania. A woman stockholder fainted at the microphone after nominating Benson for the board. Professional Board Baiter Evelyn Davis, who came in a red plastic fire hat, dismissed the many present and former Ford employees in the audience as "stooges." Through it all, Henry remained the star. He was frequently applauded by Ford loyalists who had come to see the chairman preside at his last such gathering...
Others also came expecting fireworks from Ford's chief legal antagonist, Manhattan Lawyer Roy Cohn. For a year he has been pressing a suit filed on behalf of a handful of stockholders (that charges Henry with a series of misdeeds, including accepting bribes. A New York court threw out Cohn's suit in January on grounds that it should have been filed in Michigan, where Ford is headquartered. Cohn is appealing, but plans to pursue the case in Michigan if necessary...
Jimmy Carter had just been elected President, and the Kremlin was nervous. After eight years of dealing productively with Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, the Soviets found themselves confronted in January 1977 with a largely unknown quantity. Would this new American Administration finish the work on a Strategic Arms Limitation treaty begun by Nixon and continued by Ford? The SALT I interim agreement limiting strategic offensive arms, signed by Nixon and Brezhnev in 1972, was due to expire in October 1977. Brezhnev and Ford had agreed at Vladivostok in 1974 on the framework of a new treaty to run until...
...prepare for renewed strategic arms talks between Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. The NSC drafted Presidential Review Memorandum No. 2, an interagency study of the options available to the President. There was a loose consensus that the U.S. should seal the deal Gerald Ford had made at Vladivostok, and swiftly. Then the Administration could get on with more ambitious initiatives in the next round of talks, SALT...
...about to resign from the Government to take a job helping his old boss, Henry Kissinger, write his memoirs. *However, technically the U.S. would have had the right of MlRVing the Minuteman with seven warheads, since the missile had been tested with that number on two occasions during the Ford Administration...