Word: ronald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ronald R. Edmonds, director of the Center for Urban Studies, and one of the organizers of the conference, said that holding the conference at Harvard is of great symbolic importance. "The most invidious maligning of the character of black higher education has been done here at Harvard," he commented...
Publicly, President Ford tried to downplay Nixon's odyssey, saying that it had "no political ramifications at all." Privately, Ford and his aides were furious that his disgraced predecessor would accept the longstanding invitation just as Ford was fighting to fend off the challenge of Ronald Reagan in the New Hampshire primary. Because Nixon seemed to be emerging from his San Clemente exile, Ford was being peppered with questions in New Hampshire about why he had pardoned the ex-President. Said one senior White House staffer: "It's goddam humiliating. Nixon can be forgiven for trying to make...
...acceptable as a candidate, regardless of their first choice for President. Only 40% of the sample said they did; a walloping 46% found him unacceptable, probably a reflection that he has been around too long. By contrast, President Ford was acceptable to 58% and unacceptable to only 36%, and Ronald Reagan also had a favorable rating, 45% to 35%. The Democrat with the most favorable rating was Edward Kennedy: 47% found him acceptable, 42% unacceptable...
...California's troglodytic former governor, Ronald Reagan, who was unable, by a little over 1000 votes, to win his duel with the ever-vulnerable Gerald Ford in one of the nation's most conservative Republican constituencies...
...reporters, searching for the luxurious facilities Ronald Reagan was providing the press with on election night, wandered by in the hall outside and stopped for a gander at the devout assembly...