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/p> p> Happy New Year to you and to all TAS readers. br> -- Nelson Ward br> Cowles, New Mexico /p> p> GERRY BUILT br> Re: Jeffrey Lord's Two Gentleman and a Party and Paul Beston's When Greatness Isn't Called For : /p>

Gerald Ford's unlikely ascent to the presidency hinged on Spiro Agnew's corruption and Richard Nixon's paranoia. He was brought in specifically to provide an honest face where there had been ugly character defects. As a policy maker, he was little more than a boring Republican team player who worships herd ideas more than actual thoughts. Reagan, on the other hand, actually went through a catharsis and felt in his gut that communism was a bad idea that needed to be combated and that capitalism was the wave of the future.

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