DBWI: Carter Beats Ford in 1976
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Certainly. And remember how influential he was at getting that Israeli-Palestinian agreement under Perot in 2001.
And President Kemp help to push through Congress the labor reform that if a person makes under $70,000 for the year, they get time-and-a-half for overtime however their company classifies them.
And he stated and advocated for this . . . as a very pro-market reform, thank you very much.
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And at one point, about midway through his first term, Pres. Kemp said, in that acerbic wit of his, “I, for one, do not believe that STEM is the savior of the human race.”
And he stated and advocated for this . . . as a very pro-market reform, thank you very much.
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And at one point, about midway through his first term, Pres. Kemp said, in that acerbic wit of his, “I, for one, do not believe that STEM is the savior of the human race.”
There's an anecdote, confirmed in Donald Rumsfeld's book, that during one of the debates, President Ford made a remark akin to "there is no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe and will never be under a Ford Presidency". However, he was coughing pretty badly while speaking and when the moderator asked him to repeat his sentence he stated "the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe will come to an end under the Ford Presidency." Perhaps if he had said the former then that would have hurt him enough to cost him the election.
That election was so close anything could've changed the result. Speaking of foreign policy, most would agree that Secretary of State George H.W. Bush handled things well under Ford. Without Ford and Bush, would detente have progressed as it did? Would the Cold War have ended by the early 1990's as in OTL?