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...simply didn't "have a strong enough political base in Congress," and he sauntered off to a quarter-million dollar free ride to San Clemente "while daring greatly." Ford's inaugural speech, what he called "just a little straight talk among friends," is just as patronizingly obsequious as his predecessor's speeches. Again, the only interesting aspects are his Freudian slips: he tells us he comes to the Presidency "with full con...confidence," an ironic piece of self-criticism, and he also praises Nixon, the great man "who brought pee-eace to millions" in a broken voice that reflects either...
...expects Charles Melvin Price to make waves as chairman of the Armed Services Committee. He is a party stalwart, almost unknown outside the House, the defense world and his downstate Illinois district. Notably, he lacks the arrogance of his predecessor, F. Edward Hébert, and any instinct for newspaper headlines...
Foley opposed his predecessor, Bob Poage, over a 1970 farm bill rule denying food stamps to families if any member over 18 refused work. "I don't want to feed bums," he argued, "but neither do I think we should visit the sins of the parents upon the children...
...Internal Security Committee and its predecessor lived in shame and died in shame; it is good to see it dead and buried...
...Which president analyzed his predecessor: "Hoover had the misfortune to hold office at the wrong time...