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...Enhance the skills and mobility of labor. This combats both inflation and unemployment. The U.S. should revive and expand the manpower-training programs started under the Johnson Administration but curtailed by President Nixon. Though the programs were sloppily run, some of them???notably those under which private businessmen, with federal financing, hired and trained the so-called hard-core unemployed?showed great promise of teaching skills to otherwise "unemployable" people. The Labor Department also should set up the long-discussed computerized "job bank" that would list employment opportunities throughout the nation, and subsidize needy workers who want to move...
...Hartmann in the Oval Office, Ford twice read the speech aloud, wrote in a few changes to make it flow more easily, and added the line referring to Nixon's health. Then he moved to a small adjoining office and began phoning congressional leaders; he had not previously informed them???or Jaworski ?of the highly secret decision to pardon...
...real question is whether justice ?and the country?have been served by giving Nixon a pardon. The American people deserve to know the entire story of Watergate. They do not know it yet, and the person who is in the best position to tell them???because he has the fullest knowledge of it?is Richard Nixon. If he had been brought to court, Nixon would have been under intense political pressure to divulge the full truth under oath. His degree of guilt or innocence would have been established by the law, and any claims that he had been hounded...
...tapes, yielding only when he seemed in imminent danger of being cited for contempt of court if he did not. Then the nine subpoenaed tapes dwindled like nine little Indians. The number slipped to seven when the White House contended that two were "nonexistent." Nixon claimed that one of them???a telephone call on June 20, 1972 to John Mitchell, then re-election committee chief?was not taped because he had placed it from his White House living quarters, on a phone that had no taping apparatus. Another conversation with former White House Counsel John Dean on April...
...chose the discipline but rejected the shared observances of a religious order so that they could free themselves for work among their fellow men, a band of mystics who chose to find their enlightenment in a combative encounter with the world around them. Like religious orders before them???Benedictines, Dominicans, Franciscans?they pledged themselves to strict obedience but, like the Renaissance men they were, they also preserved a high regard for individual talent and initiative...