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...drifted out of touch, Ford met with a range of congressional leaders both to talk economics and explain the SALT agreement tentatively reached with the Soviet Union. In an effort to persuade more draft evaders and deserters to respond to his flagging amnesty program, he granted full pardon to eight convicted resisters and conditional clemency to ten others. To counter criticism that his White House has not yet focused on domestic problems in the fashion that it has foreign affairs, Ford has decided, TIME has learned, to make Nelson Rockefeller his domestic "czar" once Rockefeller is-confirmed as Vice President...
Known as a hard-driving network newsman for NBC, once wounded in Viet Nam, Nessen became close to Ford during the Vice President's frequent travels. Stepping in after Jerald terHorst's stunning resignation over the Nixon pardon, Nessen solemnly promised not to be just a salesman for the President and extracted a pledge from Gerald Ford that he would be informed about all pending White House business...
...only lied to the public but often to the aides who were risking their own freedom to protect him. Some jurors might refuse to convict in the belief that it would be unfair to imprison the aides while Nixon escapes criminal prosecution because of President Ford's pardon. The Nixon on the tapes, in fact, sounds more devious than the men on trial...
...York Times have on occasion criticized Ford unsparingly. After Ford's economic speech to Congress, Reston wrote: "The fear here is that he didn't bite the bullet but nibbled it." The judicious David S. Broder of the Washington Post, who had defended the Nixon pardon, summed up Ford in his first hundred days as "surely the simplest man to occupy the White House in modern times...
Loeb said that President Ford is "one of the nicest, most decent" men, but added that the Nixon pardon and the mentioning of draft amnesty were ill-timed political moves...