I know this is a conservative

[undergroundpanther]

site but what they are saying about ford preparing for the"bush dynasty" is rather chilling. To a DEM that is.


Allen claims Reagan was upset over demands by Ford advisers that Henry Kissinger be guaranteed the role of secretary of state and Alan Greenspan, treasury secretary. Allen writes that he was with Reagan as he expressed horror over a "co-presidency" with anyone, but especially Ford, whom he had been campaigning against just months earlier and had labeled a Republican "liberal."

Meese insists Bush had already been selected, but that the Ford interview forced Reagan to make a surprise trip to the convention hall that night to announce Bush as his running mate. Meese said Reagan did so to avoid delegates becoming disappointed over Ford not being on the ticket should that expectation continue past that night.

My best guess, knowing how this party has traditionally operated, is that the truth lies somewhere in the middle. I don't doubt Meese when he says there was already an orderly process of evaluating potential VP candidates underway, and that Bush was toward the top. But I also believe Allen when he says Bush wasn't initially Reagan's first choice and that the Ford interview forced him to make a swift and perhaps different decision.

Either way, the story illustrates that Gerald Ford, from his service as a Republican member of the Warren Commission to his healing manner in the wake of Watergate, was a far more powerful force than most observers ever recognized.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18680

[madeline_con]

1. Self delete.....

I'm so dumb sometimes....

[RoyGBiv]

2. The link ...

The site at the link is a conservative site.

[guruoo]

3. Oh, I don't know about that...

to me, your avatar says otherwise!
:headbang:

[illinoisprogressive]

4. The worst part was during Ford's administration when the neocons

were born. It's called plan b and Rummy, his assistant, wolfowitz, cheney, ect., started what was later called Project for the new American Century. They teamed in the dod and wolfowitz started a blue print for regime change in the old soviet union. At the time they also plotted to oust Rockefeller and Kissinger. That was the beginning.
During the Reagan years these little cockroaches show up in the administration. the rest you know.
Now we find that the Bush dynasty was begun over 25 years ago and we have to live with that.
Between the neocons birth, the birth of the Bush dynasty and thier eventual melding a quarter century later, it is really alarming what some political deals will innocently start.