Word: fords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reagan, despite his 67 years and his many political scars, is out ahead. He plans 75 appearances in 25 states before the November election-a crushing schedule for any politician at any time of life. Reagan was trying to heal party wounds last week when he met with Gerald Ford, John Connally and other G.O.P. heavyweights at functions in Houston and Dallas. For the first time since their bitter primary struggle for the presidency, Reagan and Ford exchanged compliments and laughed at each other's jokes...
...made half a dozen swings through the state. Some local Republicans have informed Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker that they would like to start organizing for him, but Baker is now concerned with winning re-election by a big margin in Tennessee. The moderates are ready to support Ford, but if he decides not to run, they are prepared to back former CIA Director George Bush...
Blumenthal also pledged "a very tight fiscal policy," and in deed reinstated balancing the federal budget by fiscal 1981 as an Administration goal. That did not satisfy Alan Greenspan, former chairman of President Ford's Council of Economic Advisers. He lamented that basic functions of government at all levels have been broadened over the past several decades "with no internal rational limiting process," generating irresistible pressures to spend. The only solution he could see is a constitutional amendment enforcing budget limits...
Only two days before the regular meeting of Ford Motor Co.'s board. Chairman Henry Ford II, looking trim and puffing a fat cigar, assured reporters that no new president would be named this month to succeed the unceremoniously sacked Lee Iacocca. Evidently Ford was only trying to confuse the newsmen, because last week the directors indeed named a new president...
...Philip Caldwell, 58, a decisive but low-keyed executive, who has won Ford's attention as problem solver in a succession of jobs: chief of the company's truck operations, president of Philco-Ford, and head of automaking operations outside North America. Last year he was elevated to the title of vice chairman and membership in the newly formed office of the chief executive (along with Iacocca and Ford...