THE WHITE HOUSE: Here, There and Everywhere

Gerald Ford promised an open presidency. It has indeed been open—and highly mobile. In less than nine months in office he has logged some 50,000 miles outside Washington, visited 28 states and talked to 40 Governors, over a dozen mayors and countless thousands of ordinary citizens. He is given constant exposure; an entire issue of the New York Times Magazine last week was devoted to a minute-by-minute chronicle of the six days that Author John Hersey spent with him in the White House. He was interviewed live for an hour on television...

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