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...Navy, which North had allowed to fall greatly below strength in the early '70s, is rapidly being expanded. The number of seamen will almost double, from last year's 16,000 to 28,000, and new ships are being outfitted at Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth. Press gangs are out nightly along the Thames to find able-bodied men-and some not so ablebodied. Relying on the peaceful words of the Bourbon Kings of France and Spain, the Admiralty has sent most of its active war vessels -24 ships of the line and 20 frigates-to form an ever...
Shortly before the New Hampshire primary, Ford said that he intended to retain the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, which the Defense Department had threatened to close. He announced to hard-pressed New England fishermen that he would fight to extend the territorial limit from twelve miles to 200 miles. He appointed New Hampshire's attorney general, Warren Rudman, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Rudman comes from Nashua, a city crucial to Ford's victory...
...certainty if the Wildcats had made it to the Garden tonight, and which the UNH fans would probably have made given the opportunity (not to mention the air fare, but that's only a minor consideration when the alternative is to spend another weekend eating Big Macs in Portsmouth...
...Reagan made serious mistakes. He spent little time in the cities and towns where much of Ford's strength lay: Keene, Nashua, Durham, Portsmouth and Dover. He erred by campaigning in Illinois the day before the primary; New Hampshire Campaign Manager Hugh Gregg, a former Governor, had advised Reagan that further stumping in New Hampshire was unnecessary. In hindsight, an unhappy Reagan strategist concluded, "That's when we should have been going full bore. The situation was that volatile...
...sort of gaffe that has helped sink previous presidential campaigns: Barry Goldwater's 1964 proposal to make Social Security voluntary and George McGovern's 1972 recommendation that the Government pay every American $1,000 a year. Above an editorial at tacking the scheme, New Hampshire's Portsmouth Herald last week carried the headline REAGAN DIGS HIS OWN GRAVE. Although federal taxes would be decreased, Gerald Ford's campaign aides-and Democrats-point out that state and local taxes would soar...