President Ford and the Senate

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Sen. Charles E. Goodell discusses the relationship of President Ford with his staff and his important advisers, specific individuals of Nixon's "Praetorian Guard," the process by which President Ford appointed people to his representatives' board, Ford's appointment of Justice John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court and the Senate's role in these appointments, as well as the effects of Mrs. Ford's drug addictions on President Ford's performance, dynamics of power in the White House, the politics behind the election of 1976, and the strengths and weaknesses of Ford's presidency and political leadership.