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...simple manner in which Mr. Ford disposed of the great question, Who should be our next President? was typified in one paragraph: "I believe it is the wise and natural thing for the people to agree on the nomination and election of Mr. Coolidge. I am satisfied that 90% of the people feel perfectly safe with Coolidge and I feel, too, that the country is perfectly safe with him. And if this is the feeling of the country, why change...
With this single stroke the automobile manufacturer decapitated whatever chance he may have had of being President in 1925. On the same day, petitions were filed placing Calvin Coolidge on the Republican ticket and Henry Ford on the Democratic ticket in the Michigan primaries next Spring. Any possibility that Mr. Ford might be a Presidential candidate he disposed of in answer to a question: "No man has a right to say he never will consider public office nor accept public office. No man can predict his own acts and feelings so strongly as that. But this I will say, that...
...these kind words Mr. Coolidge and C. Bascom Slemp each sent Mr. Ford a telegram of thanks. The telegrams were not made public...
...William Dawe, President of the original Ford-for-President Club at Dearborn: "I do not hesitate to say that in my own judgment I thought the whole matter would come...
Robert R. Porter, who organized the Ford conference at Dearborn a fort- night ago (TIME, Dec. 24) : "Mr. Ford will live to change his mind...