Had they made a quid pro quo. And there are many investigations of it. But nobody has found anything and ford, as president had bought before the subcommittee to testify on what had happened. Gerald ford was picked, i believe, a lot of people were nominating themselves because he was safe and he was old gerald ford and he had been a critic of nixon and he was a decent guy, a decent man, a good guy from michigan and ohio, having a partiality for midwesterners. But he was no sparkling figure and i described the scene here in the white house when nixon was going to announce who is going to be his Vice President after they got rid of spiro agnew for accepting cash and the Vice President ial office from some contractors like that. So he was out. And i remember and i described the scene at as he was talking in sort of building it up and people stand up and applaud and i thought, there has to be a mistake. He must be confused and sure enough it with him. And he turned out to be just right for
Falwell has his own Segregation Academy and this is what gets him and others motivated. As the architect of the religious right has corroborated is emphatic about this point i was trying to kick these people ever since of Goldwater Campaign and i tried everything i could think of. School prayer, prayer, abortion, nothing got their attention until the school issue and that is what galvanized them into a political movement. The second part of the story , the bob dylan case with the evangelical leaders but was also savvy enough to realize he needed day different issue to have grass roots evangelicals from the religious right and in 1978 the answer finally comes to him and particularly in minnesota and iowa something remarkable happens there are three seats up for office. And the governorship rollup for grabs. And in iowa dick clark was the incumbent and going into the election no poll showed clark ahead by fewer than 10 Percentage Points during those final. But what happens in iowa and mi
Incentive to take risk and i have a chapter on the book on organizational structure and how to that can shape risk taking. Id like to go to the other side of the equation. Theres a section in the book, and i would imply this to the regulators as well and everybody and Board Members the power of simple questions. In other words, there are certain simple questions you, when you ask them and pursue the answers you learn something. In the late 2000s fannie mae took a large hit for an ordinary company not large for them because they were such a big company on manufacturing housing loan. In 2003, the chief Credit Office at fannie mae wrote a report saying one of the lessons is you cant trust the aaa rating because we bought aaa pieces on the mobile home loans and they createred on us. Craters on us. Again, if somebody starts to ask questions and say why arent you doing Due Diligence on what youre buying regardless of whether it has a rating and remember underneath the rating in terms of the
President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to nominate William O. Douglas to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Justice Louis Brandeis in 1939, but