Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audit was made available to the Senate Rules Committee, and his finances were also intensively investigated by the FBI. Ford was given a completely clean bill of fiscal health in the hearings. Speaking of last week's publication of the audit and the debate over Ford's finances, Michigan Republican Senator Robert Griffin, a member of the Rules Committee, said: "If that's all there is, I'll be pleased." But the audit does show that Ford on at least two occasions dipped into campaign funds for personal...
...gaffe injured Ford's chances of winning what he must: the crucial northern states of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. All probably will be decided by the shift of a few percentage points, and in those states live millions of voters of Eastern European-and German-origin. The Eastern Europeans are largely Catholic, urban and blue collar, and they traditionally vote Democratic. Ford had seemed to be wooing them with some success by emphasizing his rigid opposition to abortion and by playing on fears of Carter's born-again Baptist evangelicalism...
Indeed everybody does, although he and Betty have not lived in Michigan's second city in almost 28 years. Some old-timers remember him as the towheaded youngster who played center on the South High football team. Others recall him as the industrious fellow earning $2 a week plus lunches waiting on tables during the Depression. Mrs. Ella Koeze Weed, an early supporter of Ford's, recalls his boldness; he dared to importune her with the risque wolf whistle. "I used to think, 'Well, that big kid in the dirty coveralls has a nerve-whistling...
During his 25 years in Congress representing western Michigan's Fifth District, which includes Grand Rapids, Ford kept in close touch through frequent trips home. "Sometimes he would give a breakfast speech and then fly to Washington for a crucial vote and return for an evening meeting," recalls Maury DeJonge, a newspaperman who has covered Ford for many years. Many summers Ford spent two weeks crisscrossing his district in a trailer to talk with home folks. He was regarded as an effective Congressman, though he seldom bagged rich federal projects for his district. His straight-shooting constituents would have...
...wants at least a hundred thousand out there tonight," the portly precinct captain said, "so you better have five bodies, plus your own ugly face, out there on Michigan Avenue tonight. We're taking a head count at the lot, and don't try to leave before Carter speaks because Tommy will be at the lot." The captain smiled, exposing tobacco-stained dentures as he banged his fist on his fleshy palm...