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Traveling with Ford in 1976 the first debate seen
Saul Petit recounts a journalist notebook from September to October 1976 aboard campaigns and debaters. Ford and Carter tour Biloxi Gulfport and Los Angeles with onlookers, press bus dispatches, Playboy fallout, and GAO critiques. Political mood shifts, Nessen pronouncements, and Carter attacks frame a volatile race.
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Saul Petit
Ford
Ben Franklin
Philadelphia
Elizabeth Drew
Jimmy Carter
Susan Ford
Rose Garden
Louisiana
New Orleans
Lutcher
Carter
South
Walter Mondale
Minnesota
Natchez
Gerald
Betty Ford
Gulf Coast
Biloxi
Miss
Pascagoula
Ala
Ron Nesgen
State Department
Rhodesia
Nessen
Messen
White House
Playboy
Air Force One
Richard B. Cheney
Washington, D.C
Earl Butz
Buzz
California
Henry Kissinger
William Greener
President Ford Committee
Ron Nessen
San Francisco
Butz
Buta
North
Golden Gate
Congress
General Accounting Office
Mayaguez
Cambodia
Mervin Field
Nelson W. Polsty
University ¢ of
Berkeley
God
Chirenne Kelley
PBS
Charles Miller
Shorenstein
Los Angeles
Commerce Dey
Israel
Europe