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...Gerald Ford, the White House has become a symbol of his defeat and a place to be avoided. Since November he has spent half of his time outside Washington-at Palm Springs, Calif., Camp David and at Vail, Colo. When he was not on Vail's ski slopes last week, he worked for several hours on the 1977-78 budget, a proposal for a $10 billion tax cut and the State of the Union message that he will deliver on Jan. 12. He also made the surprising announcement that he would ask Congress to enact legislation to admit Puerto...
...Utah's Wasatch Mountains, ho tel owners riffling through sheafs of canceled reservations look out on tawny brown slopes and frustratingly blue skies. President Ford, vacationing in Vail, Colo., spends a few hours a day slaloming between exposed patches of grass and rocks, then quits to sit by the fire, going over official documents. At Idaho's Sun Valley, only limited skiing is available, so more guests than usual while away their time trapshooting, riding horses and trading volleys on the tennis courts. In Northern California's Heavenly Valley, San Francisco secretary Lani Palmer practices parallel turns...
...Valley-has even begun to function; it has skiing on artificial snow on just 2½ of its 50 runs. And in Colorado, where losses have mounted to $30 million, Senator Floyd Haskell has asked President Ford to declare a natural-disaster area. While awaiting official action, Vail Developer Peter Seibert hired local Ute Indians to perform a ritual snow dance. The results were negligible. Says Seibert: "We're getting a little snow, but it's just enough to cover up the cigarette butts...
...pocket money per week in 1972, as his recently disclosed IRS audit indicated, Ford replied: "I write checks." He explained away his withdrawal of $1,167 from his Fifth District bank account, which contained political contributions and fees from speaking engagements, for a 1972 family vacation trip to Vail, Colo. The President reiterated that he had promptly reimbursed the account by writing a check, even though he had not deposited it until his next payday, because his personal account was apparently overdrawn. Said Ford with a smile: "I think a few people in this country have written checks and then...
...President and his aides knew that this strategy would be only a delaying action, that ultimately Ford would have to answer reporters' questions about the financial charges. But what more could he say? His aides had already explained his spending for the trip to Vail and the clothing in 1972. As for the maritime unions investigation, only Ruff could declare the President's innocence...