Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House, meanwhile, Gerald Ford decided to step up the pace of his campaigning to almost every weekend, concentrating for the time being on Wisconsin, Texas and California. He trails Reagan in Texas (100 delegates) and California (167) but has a comfortable lead in Wisconsin, where Republicans will elect 45 delegates on April 6. New York holds a primary that same day; all of the state's 154 delegates will not be bound officially to any candidate, but most of them are expected to support Ford at the convention. He also stands to pick up most...
...their relationship. Their associates add that both "are cooperating fully" in the second investigation. However, Tail's firm will no longer function as an FBI "cutout" until the investigation is completed. Justice Department officials are now hoping that the new investigation may prompt Kelley to take a long step toward completing the housecleaning that began after J. Edgar Hoover's death...
...William Rogers, who then held the job. He considered Rogers weak and inept and actually went out of his way to humiliate the Secretary. Kissinger finally threatened to quit if he could not have Rogers' post; Nixon yielded. But when Nixon sent Haig to tell Rogers he must step down, the deeply hurt Secretary replied: "Tell the President to f___ himself." He later cooled off and dutifully resigned...
...again, Franjieh, a Maronite Christian, vowed to leave his palace only as a corpse. Even after army officers led by Brigadier General Aziz Ahdab mounted a coup to force him out of office and end the fighting, Franjieh huddled behind his loyal presidential guard at Baabda and refused to step down. But last week, as Franjieh hastily moved to a village city hall near the Phalangist stronghold of Juniyah on the seacoast 13 miles north of Beirut, a radio station supporting him announced "a temporary transfer of the seat of the presidency...
Last week, after two White House meetings with top health authorities, President Ford took an extraordinary step to avert any repetition of that disaster. He called for the inoculation of the entire U.S. population-a program that would exceed even the record-breaking 100 million oral doses of polio vaccine given during a year and a half in the early '60s-and asked Congress to allocate $135 million in federal "seed" money for production of a new vaccine that is effective against the swine virus, if indeed it reappears in epidemic proportions. To supply enough shots for every American...