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...usual-but almost instinctively, he also reached out for the butter dish. When Ambassador Sol Linowitz called Carter from Panama City to report that an agreement would be reached within hours, one of Carter's first requests was that Linowitz phone the news to Jerry Ford up in Vail. At least three times Carter personally talked to Ford on the phone, then sent Linowitz, General George Brown, and former Ford Aide Brent Scowcroft on a 6½-hour journey to Ford's chalet in the Rockies. Jerry has now joined enthusiastically in the battle for the treaty...
...President focused his first selling efforts on two influential Republicans. Twice last week he spoke on the phone to Gerald Ford. First Carter called the former President at his vacation retreat in Vail, Colo. The next afternoon Ford called Carter at Camp David; the President thanked him "for this example of bipartisan support." In between conversations, Ford had been briefed for 90 minutes by Sol Linowitz (who had negotiated the terms, along with Ellsworth Bunker), and by Gen. George S. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At the White House, Carter had former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
Accessibility: excellent. Allow 15 to 30 min. for seven-mile ride downtown by car or cab ($5). Downtown limousines ($2.40) every 20 min. until 11:30 p.m. Trailways buses to Vail ($7), Aspen ($13), Colorado Springs ($5), Boulder ($3). Eleven commuter airlines. Parking: adequate, mostly close in. Flow Through: sprawling, old-fashioned layout. Lounges attractive, comfortable. Some sidewalk checkin. One four-level terminal. Longest walk: one mile. Baggage checkout: fast. Hotels/Motels: ample. Ten within 10 min. Amenities: excellent. Lounges pleasant and comfortable. Good coffee shop open until 7:30 p.m. (beef tacos, $2.50); crowded self-service cafeteria. Best restaurant: Crossroads...
...week, the Fords lived through the same kind of unsettling chaos that every family endures as it packs to move. Vans pulled in and out of the White House, grounds. The family's cold-weather clothes were ticketed for their condominium in Vail, Colo., their warm-weather togs for a rented house in Palm Springs, Calif., and presidential documents and memorabilia for the University of Michigan. At one point, surveying all that remained to be done, Betty Ford joked to an aide, "I think I'm going to have to call Mrs. Carter and say I just...
...last blunder. Ford had an enthusiasm for drives and campaigns with the flair of Chamber of Commerce resolutions. And, whether impeaching Earl Warren, Whipping Inflation Now, or inoculating every American for swine flu, they tended to fizzle out quickly. Still, when he announced during a skiing trip at Vail that he would propose legislation to make Puerto Rico the 51st state, he started the island...