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Ford's optimism was particularly evident during an interview with a delegation of seven editors and newsmen from New Hampshire, where he will be running head-to-head against Reagan in the nation's first primary, on Feb. 24. After repeated prodding, the President ticked off the names of eight men as being "fully qualified" to be his running mate in November: Commerce Secretary-designate Elliot Richardson; Senators Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, Charles Percy of Illinois, and Howard Baker and William Brock of Tennessee; and Governors Daniel Evans of Washington, Robert Ray of Iowa and Christopher Bond...
...last week he may have found his format. Of all things, it was the budget. He walked through its corridors of forbidding figures with brisk confidence. He expertly handled hours of briefings for officials and newsmen. He rarely had to refer to his notes or call on his aides. Ford not only knew his budget, he felt it, found romance in the balance sheets. There was a kind of boardroom eloquence about the President in this environment, moving from table to chart, talking of dollars and sense. Even those who disagree philosophically with Ford admitted that he had done...
Recent reporting has put one celebrated Kennedy anecdote into a different perspective. Newsmen watching...
Based on seven months of staff investigation, the Senate report offers a bit of bitter justice to Richard Nixon. Among the Watergate revelations that undid him were his Administration's use of the FBI to wiretap Administration officials and newsmen, and his forestalling, for a time, the FBI investigation of the bugging of Democratic National Committee headquarters. The Senate committee reports that precedents for abuse of the agency were firmly established by Hoover under Democrats F.D.R., L.B.J. and J.F.K. Some of the examples of improprieties...
TIME has learned that FBI sources are certain that Hoover kept many highly sensitive files about newsmen, former White House aides and possibly even about Nixon. The records also included information on the drinking habits and personal lives of several Supreme Court Justices. But technically they were not called "secret files," so Mohr's denial of their existence is not perjurious. They were kept not in Hoover's private office but elsewhere in his suite, these sources believe...