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...President's operation gives off too little crackle from the candidate himself. With affable but unsavvy Rogers Morton as chairman, it has no strong command figure at the center. From the start, Ford and his strategists never took the Reagan challenge too seriously. As Betty Ford told Women's Wear Daily last week: "I can tell you they just sat back complacently, thinking that the President would be nominated, that it was sort of a shoo...
Supporters of both men scoff at the notion that a Democratic victory in November is anything like a foregone conclusion. Ford Campaign Chairman Rogers Morton insists that "fundamentally, this experience [the primary battles] has not been harmful to the President. It has given him a chance to demonstrate his ability to communicate with people, and his personal warmth...
Another problem is Ford's campaign chairman, Rogers Morton, who remarked on TV as the grim results rolled in from Nebraska: "I'm not going to rearrange the furniture on the deck of the Titanic." The genial Morton has not had conspicuous success in organizing Ford's campaign; in general, he remains the glad-handing front man while decisions are made by Political Director Stuart Spencer...
Behind the lighthearted banter was a grimly sober realization: every time Ford loses a primary, Kissinger is bound to get some-or much-of the blame. When the President lost the North Carolina primary, for example, his confidant Mel Laird and his campaign chairman Rogers Morton both remarked that Kissinger would not remain in office much longer. After the more critical setbacks in Texas and Indiana, Kissinger was under even greater fire from a number of top Republicans and White House aides...
From Holyoke Center the History of Science Department will move to the Science Center and the Linguistics Department to 5 Divinity Ave. The Committee on General Education will move from 1737 Cambridge to the Morton Prince House...