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...President wrote his soothing, low-keyed speech?which he described as "just a little straight talk among friends . . . the first of many"?beginning late Wednesday night, with the help of his chief of staff, Robert Hartmann, and Speechwriter Milton Friedman. With genuine humility, Ford conceded that "you have not elected me as your President by your ballots," and asked that he be confirmed "with your prayers." He emphasized the need for truth and promised to follow his "instincts of openness and candor." Time and again Ford talked about his "friends," not once mentioning enemies, domestic or foreign. Implicitly...
...long and losing struggle to manage an unruly economy, the Nixon Administration has at one time or another applied the diverse economic theories of Milton Friedman (concentration on money supply), John Maynard Keynes (liberal spending) and John Kenneth Galbraith (price control). Last week, still seeking an effective anti-inflation strategy, it went back to Adam Smith. In a bow to the oldtime, laissez-faire religion of reduced Government spending, the White House announced that it would try to trim more than $5 billion out of the budget for fiscal 1975, which starts this week. If the cuts are actually made...
...captains are: Dan Williams of Milton, baseball; Blair Brooks of Weston, heavyweight crew; Todd Howard of Clarence, N.Y., lightweight crew; Steve McConnell of Winchester and Tom Yellin of Memphis, Tenn., golf; Jim Quinn and Leroy Thompson of Baltimore, Md., lacrosse; John Ingard of Lincoln, tennis; and Blayne Heckel of Wauwatosa, Wis., and Steve Niemi of Pullman, Wash., track and field...
...later for his frugality. "The demands on the mayor are five times the supply. You have to say no," replied Flaherty. Ironically, Reformer Flaherty won the backing of the official party machine, partly because as an Irish-Catholic from western Pennsylvania he provided good ticket balance to Democratic Governor Milton Shapp who, like Denenberg, is a Jew from the Philadelphia area and is running for a second term...
...extra strength a man of his background and position could lend what they considered an arbitrary power. Whatever similarities of ancestry, social rank and ideology they shared. Hutchinson and the Revolutionaries were on different sides--and so it happened that Mercy Otis Warren moved into his house at Milton, while Hutchinson filed off to different rooms...