Word: gerald
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...engaging people in a life long process," said Cambridge resident Gerald Bergman, a member of Cambridge's Democratic Citizens' Committee...
...understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins," Baker said, and telling reporters that both Richard M. Nixon in 1960 and Gerald Ford in 1976 put the "nation's interests first" and did not request recounts. Your turn...
Porter has also served as a top economic adviser in the White House during the presidencies of Gerald Ford, Reagan and George H.W. Bush...
...scenario assumes electors vote as they have pledged. But some electors have gone their own way. In 1976 a Republican Washington State elector cast a ballot for Ronald Reagan even though Gerald Ford was the G.O.P. nominee. Only a handful of electors have strayed. But in a tie race, it would take only one elector voting for Ralph Nader or his Aunt Edna to throw the whole thing off. To be sure, since electors are chosen by their parties, they're usually loyal. But only a few states require a pledge from electors. And that rule has never been tested...
...stark contrast, many of America's greatest booms have taken place against a backdrop of unimpressive presidents. Ronald Reagan's intellect was always held under high suspicion, yet Reagan knew enough to remove the confiscatory tax rates and inflation that were squelching investment and entrepreneurship under Nixon, Carter and Gerald R. Ford. The big posthumous tax cuts proposed by John F. Kennedy '40 made the 1960s the first decade without recession. Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, both "do nothing" presidents not renowned for mental prowess, were the stewards of the great 1920s boom when GNP increased by more than...