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...time of year again-state-fair time, vacation time, take-it-easy and picnic time. Official Washington was practically closed down and, in the cool, clear air of the Colorado mountains. Gerald Ford golfed, swam, dined with old friends and danced cheek-to-cheek with his wife in a Vail nightclub. He was briefed daily on international developments, including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's efforts to work out a peace accord between Israel and Egypt (see THE WORLD). He called together his top aides for a conference on oil prices, and met with White House Chief of Staff...
...Ford herself took the whole controversy with equanimity as she vacationed in Vail, Colo. Her only regret seemed to be the fact that too many people thought she was advocating premarital sex, rather than simply expressing a realistic, motherly attitude toward the possibility of it. "Our family," she added, "was brought up on the fact that marriage is the greatest thing in the world." As for the person most directly involved in the uproar, Susan Ford said that her mother "did a good job, talked about things people should talk about." She was more reticent about her current boy friend...
...news came as Ford took time out to clout a few balls on the fairways of Vail, Colo., but his men were busy in the hinterlands on his behalf. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, on the verge of a new round of Middle East talks, joined with Attorney General Edward Levi in bringing to the American Bar Association's convention in Montreal Ford's messages of diplomatic and investigative restraint. Then Kissinger flew off to the bourbon belt and in Birmingham outlined American interest against the Communists in Portugal. In Bloomington, Ind., meanwhile, Secretary of the Treasury William...
...there was the vague feeling back in Washington, even in the White House, that none of this would cure the new malaise very much. At the Vail branch of the White House, Ron Nessen, the President's press secretary, attributed the problem to dog days, and indeed, Sirius the Dog Star, which governs this temperamental season in mythology, seemed to have an unusual hold on the affairs of state...
There is no panic at the White House or among the mountain vistas in Vail. Administration officials see their man getting stronger personally, staying steady, riding out these peaks and valleys. Yet here and there in the Ford retinue there is concern that the old Nixon problem of underestimating the intelligence and awareness of the people is creeping back into the White House. There are many thoughtful observers who feel the nation wants and expects more change in society than the President can conceive-even in his most imaginative moments...