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...contrast to "nice guy" Jerry Ford. But the president's supposed personal decency like Carter's personal reserve, does not intrude on his political decisions. For evidence one need only turnt to the callous bombing of mainland Cambodia after the belligerent Mayaguez rescue operation; to Ford's effort to impeach ex-Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas for writing an article in a pornographic magazine; and to his Whip Inflation Now program, which helped plunge the country into a severe recession and expanded mass unemployment...
...character, morality, culture and interests distnct from those of the Eastern Establishment, dividing the nation into "rimsters," or "cowboys," and "yankees." Sporadically, this tension bursts into the open, as it did in the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy '40 and in the drive to impeach Richard Nixon...
...Gerald Ford, then the Republican leader in the House of Representatives, waged a brief but bitter campaign to impeach Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas...
...people of achievement there -scientists, artists, intellectuals, people from the sports world." These lists reveal another, unspoken intent: bringing back people who were shut out of the White House in the Nixon years. At one Ford dinner the President invited Justice William O. Douglas, whom he had sought to impeach only four years ago; the two men had a friendly chat during the evening. At another dinner, Washington Post Owner Katharine Graham, spotting others who, like herself, had long been banned from the Nixon White House, declared with satisfaction: "It's marvelous-all the underground is here." Mrs. Graham...
...since the Johnsons banished her eight years ago. Unrepressed as ever, Barbara announced that she had pinched matches, menu and program card as souvenirs. She also asked Nancy Kissinger: "Are you pregnant?" (Nancy's answer: "Absolutely not.") President Ford invited Justice William O. Douglas whom he tried to impeach in 1970. That breach healed, the President soon got into the swinging-singles spirit of the occasion. Whirling Chicano Singer Vikki Carr onto the dance floor, Ford was asked, "What's your favorite Mexican dish?" "You," replied Jerry without missing a beat...