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Another old friend of Ford's on the list of potential Vice Presidents is Representative Albert Quie (pronounced Kwee) of Minnesota. He shares most of Laird's disadvantages. A quiet but effective House member for 16 years who was a major force in shaping education bills over the past decade, Quie has had no significant administrative experience. He also is little known outside Minnesota or the capital...
...under Michigan's Gerald Ford has sought to devise positive proposals to pit against key Democratic programs. As a substitute for the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, under which Washington directly assists local school districts with the emphasis on specific programs in impoverished areas, Albert Quie (pronounced Kwee) of Minnesota developed a new approach that would give state governments a dominant role in distributing federal funds. The Quie substitute would also have changed the formula under which federal aid is apportioned among the states...