Word: ronald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gerald Ford's week, and he made the most of it. Projecting a fresh sense of confidence in himself, his policies and his political future, the President used the power of his office to take attention away from Ronald Reagan, his Republican rival, and from a crowded field of Democratic candidates. Ford used the State of the Union address and the budget message not only to lay out his programs but to launch in earnest his campaign for election in November...
Unlike the Democrats, most Iowa Republicans were not called upon to express a preference for a candidate at their precinct caucuses. But a straw poll of 583 voters-in 2.5% of all the precincts-was taken at 62 precincts. President Ford was favored over Ronald Reagan by a mere 45% to 42.5%. It appeared to be a setback for the President, who had the backing of popular Republican Governor Robert...
...Which presidential candidate is clumsiest? No, it is not necessarily Gerald Ford. Ronald Reagan slipped off a snowbank in New Hampshire, but no photographer snapped his fall. Occasionally, Reagan has bumped his head with hardly anyone noticing; more frequently (and noticeably), he has also been known to put his foot in his mouth...
What do you see as the principal differences between yourself and Ronald Reagan...
This attitude does not endear him to administrators of California's schools or colleges. Indeed, a few are wondering if Brown, who they thought was a liberal Democrat, is more anti-education than was his conservative Republican predecessor, Ronald Reagan...