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...those at home was House Minority Leader Gerald Rudolph Ford, 60, keeping his cool in his suburban Virginia home with a 20-minute swim. He had just climbed out of the pool, the dinner steaks were on the burner, when the telephone rang. It was the President. Puckishly, almost as though he were a secretary, he said: "Jerry, Al Haig has a message for you." The White House chief of staff came on the line and said: "I've got good news for you. The President wants you to be Vice President." Haig suggested that Ford might want...
LESS THAN one year ago the joyous shouts of "Four more years!" were permeating the air as the Nixon Youth celebrated its leader's victory. But the slogan which once rang with a nauseating finality for McGovern supporters and those disillusioned by both candidates now twists into irony, Nov. 7, 1972, was only a preliminary verdict, merely eliminating George McGovern and Sargent Shriver. The fates of Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew, the Republican ticket of 1972, still await the decisions of courts in Maryland and Washington...
...phone rang, a male voice announced, "This is the White House switchboard," and told him to hold on for the President. Then that most familiar of voices came on and chatted with Dobbs for fifteen minutes...
Shortly after 8 p.m., a squad of 22 policemen entered the riot area and pleaded with the mob to disperse. A vicious baton charge followed, punctuated by volleys of tear gas. Then the order to open fire rang out, and history seemed to repeat itself. At dawn eleven blacks lay dead, cut down by police bullets. Another 27 were injured...
...America's destiny manifestly depends to no small degree on the ham burgers, French fries and milkshakes served beneath the golden arches of Mc Donald's. Last year the chain of drive-ins and restaurants rang up sales of $1.03 billion, passing the U.S. Army ( 1972 food volume: $909 million) as the nation's biggest dispenser of meals...