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...locking up the nomination so soon, Carter now has the luxury of time???five months in which to ponder and articulate his policies, bring together his party, pick his people, and plan for the presidency, which the current polls show him winning. Looking to November, his aides figure that he can already reasonably count on 199 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win. They calculate this by figuring that he will carry all the Southern and Border states, plus Massachusetts, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia, which they consider to be reliably Democratic. But to meet this optimistic...
...actual agents; 63 field offices, including its Washington headquarters; and an annual budget of $85 million, more than ten times as great as at the time of President Kennedy's assassination. A good portion of these resources is dedicated?all of the time or part of the time???to the President's protection. Yet, as recent events have demonstrated, the elaborate precautions do not always work...
...life is grueling. Recalls a member of Lyndon Johnson's detail: "Physically it is very tiring, not only the long, hard days but the changing shifts. By the time the body gets accustomed to one shift you change to another. Also, I was gone about 60% of the time???and that's got to be hard on a family. It's a young man's game...
Ford's career was progressing just the way he had planned?one careful step at a time???until it was given an upward jolt by some of his impatient colleagues. After the 1964 Democratic landslide thinned Republican ranks in the House, a group of Young Turks decided that a change of leadership was necessary to meet the challenge of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. They urged Ford to run for House minority leader against Incumbent Charles A. Halleck of Indiana. After a vigorous campaign, Ford eked out a narrow, six-vote victory in the Republican caucus...
...only a few other states did better for him in 1972. Yet the World-Herald concluded last week that Nixon should resign. A remarkable number of other major newspapers that had previously supported Nixon?including the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Kansas City Times and the Los Angeles Time???urged his removal from office. The nation's largest newspaper, the normally pro-Nixon New York Daily News, stopped short of demanding impeachment, but said the President's failure to cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee "demonstrates an appalling insensitivity to his moral obligations...