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...important, the Administration should be able to develop once again a coherent legislative policy. The leftover Nixon legislative program is a shambles. There is no energy policy. Attempts at a foreign trade bill, welfare reform and land-use legislation have bogged down. In what promises to be a protracted honeymoon period, and the President undistracted by scandal, such programs can presumably be pushed forward again...
...that holds government together.' It was truly presidential." In the Chicago Daily News, Peter Lisagor observed: "Mr. Ford has a great deal going for him. An era of good will has been ushered in almost overnight, and the relief is enormous. It is more than the usual political honeymoon; it is the hope that follows catharsis, and the former Michigan football center seems to understand it intuitively...
...clearing of the air. We will have a honeymoon period with the new President. Even the press will lay off, and that will be good for America. It will be good for our critical faculties; we must rest them. We need to rest our nay-saying instincts and the belief that we can all put ourselves in the positions of the high and mighty and tell them how to run things...
...week, said a Western diplomat in Moscow, "the Soviet view was that it is regrettable, but not the end of the world, if Nixon goes." The Soviets were relieved when Gerald Ford announced that he would keep Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The Russians also hope that a political honeymoon for Ford might mean postponement of serious internal U.S. debate on détente. As one diplomat stationed in Moscow said, "as long as détente continues, Brezhnev will be in good shape...
What we are witnessing in this honeymoon period is barroom journalism come to the White House. With all of the glitter and gold, pathos and drama, tragedy and comedy that have enveloped the events of the past month, the presidency has taken on a color that in the past was found only in places such as bars and brothels. The deep wrinkles of a drunkard's face, the foul language of a brawny bartender, the sad eyes of a wasted whore are replaced by the president's level gaze, by the only glimmer from the chandeliers in the inaugural hall...