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...another Ford nominee: George Bush, chief of the U.S. liaison office in Peking, named to succeed William Colby as director of the CIA. A former Texas Congressman (two terms), Ambassador to the U.N. and chairman of the Republican National Committee, Bush is a canny politician and strong party loyalist. Democratic Senator Frank Church, who heads the committee that has been digging into CIA violations of its charter and the law, argues that the agency needs an independent, tough-minded outsider who is not a politician to straighten it out. Asked Church: "If CIA assessments should collide with a favored course...
Although President Ford said the results showed that the G.O.P. is "alive and well," Connecticut's Republican Senator Lowell Weicker, no loyalist, said more pessimistically that the party had "taken it on the chops again." The G.O.P. lost both gubernatorial races (Kentucky and Mississippi) and fared badly in a number of mayoralty duels. Ford did have one solid reason to take heart: the voters turned down $5.87 billion of the $6.33 billion in bond proposals that were on ballots across the nation.. The White House interpreted the results as clear evidence that Americans were taking heed...
...that of the entire CIA. Replacing him now, in the context of other changes, merely served to reinforce the decisiveness image. And naming George Bush his successor is of course an appeal to the mainstream and conservative factions of the Republican Party, since Bush is a recognized party loyalist and former national chairman...
...years before the American Revolution, the questions of the day were often stark and demanded decisive answers. Should the Stamp Act of 1765 be protested or not? Should British tea be dumped in Boston harbor? And finally, when the war broke out, the ultimate question: should one remain a loyalist or support the patriot militia...
Until late in the week, Abe Beame was struggling to prevent the loss of the power that he had exercised so inadequately during the months of mounting crisis. In the bunker atmosphere of city hall, one die-hard loyalist muttered that Carey and his aides were out to "destroy" the mayor. But the Board of Estimate, the city's principal governing body, decided reluctantly to support the Carey plan as the only alternative to default. In the end, after winning some token concessions from Carey, Beame gave...