Word: fords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a little poetic embellishment to the above scene, but it is pretty close to the picture of how-things-might-have-been that emerges from the relaxed mind of Gerald Ford, ensconced last week at the edge of Thunderbird's glorious fairways in Palm Springs. If he had been elected two years ago, Ford goes on, he would have kept the B-l bomber moving, gone ahead with the neutron bomb and the M-X missile. He also would have had less trouble than that fellow now in the White House in getting a Panama Canal treaty...
...were getting it to work," said Ford, thinking back to when he left Washington. "Another four years and we could have proved everything worked. I think we were right on the crest of this [new national conservative] movement. That convinces me, among other things, that in another four years we would have been moving with the tide...
LeBoutillier is disillusioned. As an undergraduate, he had offered his help to a former POW running for the Senate against George McGovern in South Dakota. The college kid raises $250,000 for the ex-POW and all of a sudden LeBoutillier is a hot prospect for both the Ford and Reagan fund-raising teams--or so he says. But he finds the Republican Party has "lost its soul." What the party and the country needs, he believes, is another Homestead Act--to return Americans to the land and their families; to recapture the spirit of 1862 without having to give...
...aging Norm Van Lier, and a new coach in Larry Costello. The Bucks are a year and a center other than Kent Benson away from winning it all. Indiana lost two of its best players (Dan Roundfield and Earl Tatum), leaving none. The Kings finally have all American Phil Ford under contract. Not bad for the worst team in the league...
...speak with your whole body, you are dull." There was "nothing more dull than the Carter-Ford debates," he said, adding that both participants were afraid to make some nonverbal mistake...