Word: shakeup
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...experts rate Ford ahead in all states but those with large concentrations of conservative voters, notably Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Nevada and Oklahoma. Nationwide, a Gallup poll of 339 Republicans found Ford ahead of Reagan, 58% to 36%. But that poll was taken just before Ford's Cabinet shakeup, and the situation could easily change. Indeed, an NBC telephone poll of 245 Republicans just after the shake-up gave Reagan 44%, Ford 43%. Says a top Midwestern Republican who backs Ford: "Reagan's attracting the same crowd that backed Barry Goldwater. The minute he announces, they...
...never got around to writing his doctoral dissertation in political science. Now that he has been named White House chief of staff, he should be able to collect enough material for several Ph.D. theses in no time at all. As one Ford supporter said of last week's shakeup: "The only regret I have is that it leaves the White House in complete disarray. Dick Cheney has got a big job ahead of him." Perhaps the most complicated task will be to harness the competing egos and in-'fighting that characterize Ford's staff...
...RECENT shakeup of the Ford administration lends itself to a conspiratorial analysis, but not entirely. Attributing ideological motivation to President Ford's appointments and removals and weaving each separate development into a coherent ideological framework demands a lot of contortion; even then, everything doesn't fit. The events do, however, support a less complicated political explanation...
...comes the reshuffle. Rockefeller of course had to go, as a clear political liability in the party. Who replaces him is unimportant--in fact, Ford can dangle the vice presidency until convention time to entice potential Reagan supporters. As for the cabinet and staff shakeup, the primary intention seems to have been the creation of an image, Gerald Ford as a decisive president. William Colby was clearly on the outs, Church committee revelations and good investigative journalism having dealt a virtual death blow to his credibility and that of the entire CIA. Replacing him now, in the context of other...
...major shakeup occured in the five-member school committee, as moderate David I. Finnegan took the seat vacated by Kerrigan and Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, an East Boston anti-busing leader, beat out anti-busing incumbent Paul J. Ellison...