Trump’s first-year job ratings among members of his own party have been on par with many recent presidents, including Obama and Bush. Among presidents since Eisenhower, Clinton (72%), Jimmy Carter (also 72%) and Gerald Ford (66%) were the only ones to receive job ratings below 80% from..…
The Fourth Circuit, will soon have eight Reagan-Bush judges, plus one Gerald Ford and one Nixon appointee.. ..…
This did not deter presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan or Bush from claiming that Senate, was still obliged to defer to their choice of Supreme Court nominees. ..…
What Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush have done to Supreme Court is just the half of it.. ..…
The exceptions are the lower ratings Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and George W. Bush received from within their parties in their difficult final years in office, and the distinct lack of enthusiasm Democrats expressed for Jimmy Carter through most his presidency. ..…
., Donald Henry Rumsfeld had been little more than a political enemy of the Bush family. It was Rumsfeld, as President Gerald Ford’s ambitious young chief of staff, who had been instrumental in the so-called “Halloween Massacre” in 1975 that—so the legend goes—had helped clear the..…
The book also describes political developments that influenced President Lyndon Johnson to support the act in 1965, and later events that supported the congressional reenactments of the VRA signed by President Richard Nixon in 1970, by President Gerald Ford in 1975, by President Ronald Reagan in..…
Bush, identified Posada and Bosch as the masterminds of the bombing. . But in fall 1976, Bush’s boss, President Gerald Ford, was in a tight election battle with Democrat Jimmy Carter and the Ford administration wanted to keep intelligence scandals out of the newspapers. ..…
s experts — the so-called Team A — was found to be so deficient that President Ford asked the C.I.A. director, George H. ... Bush, to order a competitive analysis, pitting the agency experts against a team of outsiders. . ..…
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