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...economic speech to Congress, Reston wrote: "The fear here is that he didn't bite the bullet but nibbled it." The judicious David S. Broder of the Washington Post, who had defended the Nixon pardon, summed up Ford in his first hundred days as "surely the simplest man to occupy the White House in modern times...
Caught between both sides, the British seem to have no answer at all, except to go on as they are now. More and more, however, they are contemplating the simplest if most cataclysmic solution-total withdrawal. If the Irish cannot come to terms among themselves, says one high British official, "there will be a great uprising of British public opinion. They will say, 'That's the limit.' Even the best-willed people in Ireland do not realize the strength of opinion at home, which will not wear through another round of an intractable situation...
...current energy crunch may also induce government intervention in the impending strike. While an invocation of the Taft-Hartley Act and an injunction providing for an eighty day cooling-off period would be the government's simplest move, such action would merely delay the strike to the coldest months of the winter if concessions by the management were not forthcoming. Such a delay would put even more public pressure on the producers to come to terms with union demands...
...pardon is irreversible, but Ford could revoke the tapes agreement. That would be the simplest solution. Ford seemed unlikely to negate the deal willingly, but many lawyers doubt its legality and expect it to be challenged in the courts. Jaworski would be in the best position to mount such a challenge. Indeed, at his request, the White House decided to halt the transfer of the tapes and documents to Nixon at least temporarily. But if the agreement stands, other means must be found to pry loose what still needs to be known...
Gerald Ford wanted to have an orderly transition of power. He achieved it by the simplest and most logical means - by asking all the members of Rich ard Nixon's Cabinet, as well as several top White House advisers, to stay on, at least temporarily. That left Ford free to concentrate on his first difficult manpower decision: choosing a new Vice President...