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...One of 2024’s most ambitious docs is Yance Ford’s Power, part of a robust Premieres section....
...Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton....
...On the third point, the strongest evidence for political pressure shocks came under the administrations of Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, suggesting that — like bell-bottoms, earth tones and P-Funk...
...Ronald Reagan, who challenged Kissinger’s boss, Gerald Ford, for the Republican nomination, accused Kissinger of appeasing the Soviets....
...They’re comfortable, sturdy and I love the backstory of the maker, Sarah Ford, a former Marine who did three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan before going to Harvard Business School and launching this very...
...The first is an internal primary challenge that would trigger divisions among Democrats and imperil his general election chances, such as those that helped doom Gerald Ford in 1976, Jimmy Carter in 1980...
...decades of economic history might have been quite different if not for Robert McNamara, a cerebral, tightly wired colossus of a figure who, as secretary of defence under President John F Kennedy and later Lyndon...
...(FT) Ford is latest global carmaker to struggle in India After almost 30 years and with only a toehold in the market to show for it, Ford faces crunch time in India....
...My good friend Darren Walker, now president of the Ford Foundation, was a member of the first Head Start class in 1965....
...The Richard Nixon years gave on to some water-treading under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Ronald Reagan led to George HW Bush and the prelapsarian tranquillity of the 1990s....
...Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon — one of the presidents that Kissinger served (the other was Gerald Ford) — get even lower ratings, with Nye rating them as “poor” or “mixed” on all counts....
...the importance of black and other minority voters to the Democrats’ chances of ousting Donald Trump, Mr Clyburn says the last Democrat to win the White House by relying on a majority of white voters was Lyndon...
...Of course there are some exceptions to the rule: when Carter beat Ford, it was a victory for the little guy....
...But Mr Trump did not deliver a eulogy — the first time a sitting president has not spoken at the funeral of a former president since Lyndon Johnson in 1973....
...Mr Trump should take a lesson from Mr Carter, who inherited high inflation from Nixon and Ford....
...Lyndon B Johnson’s library (Austin, Texas, 1971) was designed by corporate behemoths SOM, and is fierce and Brutalist-looking....
...Air Force One, which has the military designation VC-25, has featured in a host of movies, including the eponymous 1997 action film starring Harrison Ford....
...By the morning of July 24, Michigan governor George Romney asked President Lyndon Johnson to send in the army....
...This turned out to be the provocation of convenience that allowed Lyndon Johnson to push through Congressional authorisation to prosecute an undeclared war in Vietnam....
...So far, there is not enough evidence to know whether Mr Nangle or Mr Ford will be proved right....
...(Damon, who describes him as a “conversational prizefighter”, remembers a casual gift of the 736-page fourth volume of Robert Caro’s biography of Lyndon Johnson.)...
...Fifty years ago, Lyndon Johnson unveiled his vision of the “Great Society”....
...Doing one thing at a time is for losers — recall Lyndon Johnson’s often bowdlerised dismissal of Gerald Ford: “He can’t fart and chew gum at the same time.”...
...What emerges from his studiously documented book is how much the bill’s success depended on backroom dealmaking in Congress as well as the support of President Lyndon Johnson and civil rights leader Martin...
...Noting the role of the Ford Foundation in Lyndon Johnson’s “war on poverty” in the 1960s, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the late senator, called foundations a “new level of American government”....
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