Word: thursdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thursday morning, Ford crossed Pennsylvania Avenue to Blair House, where he presented Medals of Honor to families of seven soldiers who had been killed in Viet Nam. By now, Washington was swept by rumors of Nixon's imminent resignation. Cheering and applauding crowds assembled to catch glimpses of Ford. Then, shortly after 11, Ford was summoned to the Oval Office, where Nixon told him of his decision to resign. Immediately after that meeting, Ford called Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. "I would like to talk to you some time this afternoon," he said. "I want to talk to you about...
Nixon rose early Thursday, going by himself to the Lincoln Sitting Room to ponder and plan his day. He met later with his chief of staff, General Alexander Haig, and at 11 a.m. he called in his successor, Gerald Ford, for a private talk that lasted an hour and ten minutes. "The President asked the Vice President to come over this morning for a private meeting," Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren announced to newsmen shortly before the two sat down together. "And that is all the information I have at this moment." It was information enough, however, to alert reporters...
Time Magazine Reporter: I don't know if the record supports that, but I do know, and I know this for a fact, that it supports the statement that Mr. Ford gets up at sunrise every day to cook his own breakfast. As a matter of fact, last Thursday, the day when Nixon resigned, he got up at 5:30 a.m., came out in blue bathrobe, picked up his Washington Post, and went inside to cook some scrambled eggs for himself and his son Steve...
...weeks now commentators of every political stripe have been waxing philosophical about the lessons of Watergate. After Nixon threw in the towel last Thursday, pundits and professional politicians all agreed that the resignation was the ultimate proof of one lesson more than any other: The System Works...
...Thursday, August 15, at 8:30 p.m.: Concert by the Summer School Chorus in Sanders Theater. Admission free...