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Gerald Ford and the challenges of the 1970s / Yanek Mieczkowski.

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For many Americans, Gerald Ford evokes an image of either an unelected president who abruptly pardoned his corrupt predecessor or an accident-prone klutz who failed to provide skilled leadership. In Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s, Yanek Mieczkowski reexamines Ford's two and a half...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Mieczkowski, Yanek (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2005.
Subjects:
Ford, Gerald R., > 1913-2006.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 1974-1977.
United States > Economic conditions > 1971-1981.
United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980.
Economic history.
Politics and government.
Presidents.
Social conditions.
United States.
Electronic book.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • The leadership challenge
  • Hungering for heroes
  • The congenial Presidency
  • Gerald Ford and the Ninety-fourth Congress
  • Ford's vision for America
  • The economic challenge
  • The great inflation of the 1970s
  • Taking aim at inflation
  • Teetering on a knife's edge
  • Rallying the nation to fight inflation
  • The great recession of the 1970s
  • Ford's 1975 State of the Union Program
  • Economic initiatives, 1975-76
  • The energy challenge
  • The energy crisis of the 1970s
  • A new energy program
  • The energy stalemate
  • Breaking the energy logjam
  • Diplomatic and political challenges
  • Gerald Ford's internationalism
  • Thunder from the right
  • Back from the brink.

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