Word: ullman
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...past several weeks Ullman has been about this town morning, noon and night, his rounded features looking out from newspaper pages and invading American living rooms via Face the Nation, 60 Minutes and almost every evening newscast. He seems to be running his own small presidency, but without Air Force One or the limousines...
...authority and credit. His committee has come up with a tax-rebate bill to counter Ford's, a bill to stop Ford's tax on imported oil, and Ways and Means is hammering out its own energy measure with allocation provisions and a new gas tax. Al Ullman stands right at the crossroads of the national crisis. The White House watches him intently. What program is finally imposed on this nation probably will be rooted more in the characters of Ford and Ullman than any other...
They are almost as much alike as they are different. Neither wants to die on the ramparts. Both know they can talk to each other any time. But both also believe, as Ullman puts it, "there is a time to talk and a time to let the process work." A month ago, they were talking...
...Ullman went out the door, the President stopped him. "We ought to sit down and discuss this," he said. A few days later Ullman went unnoticed in the side door of the White House for an hour's conversation with his old Hill colleague. Ford went over his program. Ullman said he just could not agree that Ford's way was right. There ought to be quotas, a gas tax, a 90-day delay on the import fee. He had given all that serious thought, the President responded, but he had decided the other route was best. Ullman...
...Ford and Ullman were taking the measure of each other-friendly but opposed, signaling without saying. Ullman came out feeling that Ford was not anchored to his positions ("He hadn't finally disagreed"); was ready to compromise; needed some encouragement from the Hill, not poisonous opposition...