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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over." By his leaving, Nixon seemed at last to redeem the 1968 pledge he took from a girl holding up a campaign sign in Ohio: BRING US TOGETHER. The resignation brought at least the unity of hope for a fresh beginning, and with Ford, the hope for a new style of presidential leadership. After the long, obsessional preoccupation with Watergate and its claustrophobic underground works, most Americans felt last week as if they were emerging for the first time in a long while into the upper...
...President's every word. Candor could cause the same kind of trouble for Ford that it did for Harry Truman?though it must be said that Truman survived his faults with honor. As Ford recently confided to a friend: "It's pretty hard to change your life-style totally," and no one really wants him to. It is his plain-spokenness that makes him such a welcome contrast to his predecessor; for the moment, he is living proof that nice guys sometimes finish first...
...style of Gerald Ford's presidency will certainly differ from that of Richard Nixon, but the policies, at least initially, will be much the same. In major areas of Government concern, Ford's substantive views can scarcely be differentiated from those of his predecessor. As the new President once put it, "I'm a conservative in fiscal affairs, a moderate in domestic affairs, and a liberal in foreign policy." Ford's record shows that with certain qualifications, his judgment on himself is substantially accurate. Items...
...campaign trail, Nixon gave the whole U.S. a good look at the sometimes ugly cut-and-thrust style he had developed in California, freely tossing about phrases like "Adlai the Appeaser" and "Dean Acheson's College of Cowardly Communist Containment." Nobody was to rise to such alliterative heights again for 17 years, when Nixon's own Vice President ("Nixon's Nixon," as Eugene McCarthy called Agnew) started talking about "nattering nabobs of negativism" and the like...
Bronson takes the law into his own hands mainly as occupational therapy after three freaks invade his New York apartment, murder his wife and sexually abuse his grown daughter, renderIng her hopelessly insane. A weapon of revenge-a Western-style revolver-is provided by the grateful realtor whose development Bronson saved. A pressing, almost daily need to use it is supplied by British Director Winner and West Coast Writer Mayes, who offer a vision of New York City existence based less on firsthand experience than on old Johnny Carson-Dick Cavett monologues about getting home from the studio. Everywhere Bronson...