Word: pardoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford's new presence has been built on many things-his big smile, his astonishing honesty and openness, the realization by many that his pardon of Nixon may have been more right than wrong (because it helped refocus the nation's attention on other problems), his program on the economy, which has forced the hostile Congress to move, his energy program, and his quick and successful response to the Mayaguez hijacking. Whether he has been right or wrong in his decisions...
...Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension course. If his Polish-born father had not needed a job badly enough to leave New York during the Depression and sign on with the Moscow Automotive Works, Alex at 22 might have been singing a phrase from one of his favorite songs, Pardon Me, Boy, Is That the Chattanooga Choo-Choo? in Rockefeller Center rather than while strolling along Gorky Street...
Ford meets the press often, and the encounter is sometimes painful. He was brutally challenged by reporters after he granted the pardon to his predecessor. He has been bluntly asked on TV whether he is smart enough to be President, a rude question that would not have been asked of most of his predecessors. But Ford accepts the brickbats as part of his job. It would be inconceivable for him to cancel a subscription to a newspaper* that offended him, as John Kennedy did, or denounce individual reporters in the manner of Lyndon Johnson, much less put wiretaps on newsmen...
...elevator with Truman and a bunch of men. He used a swear word. "When we got to the lobby," recalled Mrs. Short, "he saw that I was on the elevator. He came over not only to speak to me but to say, 'I beg your pardon, Beth. I didn't realize you were on the elevator or I never would have said that word.' " The word was damn...
...wouldn't take any U.S. politician's promises at face value. Why would you believe the Khmer Rouge's promises to pardon "virtually everybody...