The Nation: I Think I Can Help Jerry Ford'

When Howard Hollis ("Bo") Callaway was picked as Gerald Ford's campaign manager last June, he told his wife Beth: "I hope you can remember all of the nice things they said about me as Secretary of the Army because that's the last praise you'll hear." True enough. From almost his first day, he has been under attack from some quarter of the Republican Party.

In July liberals and moderates were enraged by Callaway's clumsy attempt to win Southern support for Ford by suggesting that Vice President Nelson Rockefeller was the President's "No. 1 problem"...

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