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Gerald Ford and the challenges of the 1970s /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.