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- NATION, Page 43American NotesEX-PRESIDENTSA Man Ahead Of His Time
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- Perhaps the lowest point of Gerald Ford's unsuccessful 1976
- presidential campaign came during a debate in which he asserted,
- "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe." He specifically
- cited Yugoslavia, Rumania and Poland as being "independent" and
- "autonomous." Those remarks were seized on by his opponent, Jimmy
- Carter, as proof that Ford lacked the foreign policy expertise to
- lead the U.S.
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- Last week, in a tongue-in-cheek article published in the
- Washington Post, Ford declared that the loosening of Soviet sway
- over East European countries has vindicated him. "My mother taught
- me it is wrong to crow," Ford wrote. "But former Presidents, as
- well as small boys, know no greater joy than being able to say, `I
- told you so' . . . I come out pretty well as a prophet."
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