Word: terhorst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...income tax evasion. He had previously helped then-Congressman Ford in his ill-advised attempt to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas in 1969. Perhaps the only reputation that was enhanced during the whole episode was that of the man who left Ford's staff, Press Secretary J.F. terHorst. His resignation on principle was in the refreshing style of two of Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre victims, Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy, William Ruckelshaus...
...nominate J.F. terHorst for Man of the Year...
...credibility gap. When asked during his vice-presidential confirmation hearings about the possibility of his granting a pardon should Nixon need one, Ford replied: "I don't think the public would stand for it." On the day that Ford was inaugurated as President, his press secretary, J.F. terHorst, reiterated that statement to reporters. On Sunday, immediately before Ford's speech, terHorst resigned in protest against the pardon. At his first press conference on Aug. 28, Ford said that he was not ruling out the possibility of a pardon, but "there have been no charges made, there has been no action...
Future Furor. Of course, nothing will be easy now, and the furor promises to be intense. TerHorst's swift resignation was a symptom of what may lie ahead. Said terHorst: "I couldn't in good conscience support the President's decision, even though I knew he took the action in good conscience." Republicans, who had delightedly looked forward to the deflation of Watergate as a major issue in November, now dejectedly faced the prospect of defending to the voters Ford's grant of pardon...
...economy clearly presents Ford with a set of his most baffling and urgent problems. The new President is moving cautiously to confront them; Press Secretary J.F. terHorst vows that Ford will not be an economic "cowboy," firing impulsively right and left. Ford has withheld announcing a detailed economic program until after his widely advertised "economic summit" meeting Sept. 27 and 28, at which he will seek ideas from corporate chiefs, private economists, labor and farm leaders -"the total spectrum of American society," as he somewhat grandiosely put it. The big summit will be preceded by a series of minisummits...