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...provided anything resembling a blueprint for the nation. That would not be in keeping with his temper or his inclinations. "Ford is a prudent, careful builder," says a close friend and adviser. "When he came in, he bent a little leftward. Recently he's been tilting a little rightward." He does not want to provide his opponents on the right, chiefly Ronald Reagan, with any ammunition. But some activists on the White House staff are aware that a problem that is deferred may be harder to cope with later. At Ford's direction, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller recently...
...G.O.P. national convention and put over a candidate like Reagan if Ford grows too liberal in the meantime. The conservatives fear, above all, that Ford will decide against running and give his blessing to Vice President Rockefeller, who is still the prime target of conservative wrath, despite his moves rightward in his last term as New York Governor...
Strauss's ideas are being more favorably received these days as West Germans seem to be moving politically rightward in reaction to the 4% unemployment and last year's 7% inflation that are following a generation of nearly uninterrupted prosperity. The worse things get for Germany, the better they get for Strauss, who is still viewed by many as a fiscal genius who kept the Wirtschaftswunder booming through the late 1960s...
Carrero Blanco's assassination came as a severe shock to Franco, who for years had counted on him as his right-hand man. The Generalissimo had expected the dour admiral to keep Spain on a rightward course when he himself died and to make certain that his successor as chief of state, Prince Juan Carlos, did not fall prey to liberal ideas. But Carrero Blanco's rigid orthodoxy had made the possibility of violence as predictable as his timetable...
Above all, Rockefeller is the rigid conservative that he now swears he is. He is not tilting rightward to win the nomination, only to tilt to the left after his election. In places like Arizona and North Dakota, speaking before Republicans who are happy with America and cling to the status quo, Nelson Rockefeller is showing his true colors. Listen...