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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...command figure at the center. From the start, Ford and his strategists never took the Reagan challenge too seriously. As Betty Ford told Women's Wear Daily last week: "I can tell you they just sat back complacently, thinking that the President would be nominated, that it was sort of a shoo...
...wondered often, he confessed, why the dramatic improvement in the economy has not yielded more political support for him. "I wish we could make people feel that what we've done has been beneficial to them ... The people in the middle [politically] are sort of apathetic. How to regenerate them−we haven't found an answer...
...have hopeful Democrats lining up two abreast to be Henry Kissinger's successor. The office of U.S. Secretary of State is probably the most powerful appointive office in the world. And there were moments when Dr. Kissinger seemed to be making it the most powerful office of any sort, appointive, elective, hereditary or whatever...
...younger intellectual even more half-baked than her husband. Or maybe it is just that freedom from her husband's endless absorption with himself is its own reward. In any event, he finds her infidelity less easy to take than he had imagined. He responds with a sort of obsessive nagging that fails to mask a mounting rage. It could not be better calculated to drive her still farther from him. The result, finally, is separation, new marriages and, in a sudden burst of startling savagery, a beating of his former mate that is so severe that...
...found that this proud achievement had made him an outcast with the Southern senatorial barons. As if the memory still pains, Humphrey recalls Georgia's Richard Russell referring to him as "a damn fool." Humphrey's insecurity and ambition, his need for approval made ostracism, indeed, any sort of slight, unendurable. He never forgot the experience. From then on, Humphrey placed an unacceptably high premium on approval. In the end, it was this that stopped the energetic, engaging and gregarious Midwesterner just short of fulfilling his dream...