Gerald Ford succeeded both Agnew (as VP) and Nixon (as POTUS), and chose Nelson Rockefeller as his vice-president. Two others were considered for the VP office: Donald Rumsfeld, who later became Ford’s Chief of Staff (and later, Secretary of Defense), and George H. W. Bush.
Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Donald Rumsfeld got along well early in the Ford Administration, but by the end were practically political foes, according to Richard Norton Smith’s recent biography of Rockefeller, On His Own Terms.
“Whip Inflation Now,” or “WIN,” was a public-relations campaign launched by President Gerald Ford in 1974. In an effort to rein in rampant inflation. The campaign encouraged Americans to voluntarily be frugal and reduce their spending, but was widely ridiculed, and is considered to be one of the biggest governmental PR blunders in U.S. history.
Not in play: Hello from Little Rock Central High School, and the Commemorative Garden next door! I was there yesterday, visiting Little Rock and passing through.
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Speaking of blunders… Googling on ‘WIN NIM Ford’, (WIN NIM Ford - Google Search), will yield the wiki page on Whip inflation now, and also the History Channel page on How Gerald Ford Tried to Fight Inflation.
Members of the president’s Citizens Action Committee to Fight Inflation later conceded that WIN, initiated on 08 October 1974, was seen as too focused on publicity, and many Americans soon mocked the program. Some Americans mocked WIN by wearing the buttons upside down, which made them read “NIM”—for “No Immediate Miracles.” The New York Times reported that the program “soon became the butt of many jokes despite Ford’s appearance on television with a red‐and-white WIN button.”
WIN was a failure, and by March 1975 it was scrapped.
NIM is a game between two players where they take turns removing objects from one heap of a collection of heaps. Commonly it is lines on paper such as
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III
IIIII
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The rules can change as to whether or not the person who removes the last object wins or loses and limits on how many objects you can take at one time. Two rules are constant however and that is you must remove at least one object and you can remove objects from only one heap.
Here is the trivium: Given all of this, one player (first or second depending on the rules) a priori has a winning strategy that guaranties a win.
The Heap was the first comic book character who was a swamp monster, and first appeared in 1942.
The first comic book was literally a book of comics.
In January of 1929, Dell Publishing began printing and distributing The Funnies, a weekly tabloid which usually contained 16 pages of comics, written by various contributing authors. 36 issues of the magazine were published over a 21-month period; the last issue appeared on October 16, 1930.
(I had a WIN button in 1974. Then again, I was also only 9 years old. 
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Michael Dell began the company which became Dell Technologies in 1984, when he was a 19-year-old college student at the University of Texas. By 1992, his company had made the Fortune 500 list, and he was, at that point, the youngest person (age 27) to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 corporation.
US Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado scored an upset win over former Vice President Walter Mondale of Minnesota in the 1984 New Hampshire Democratic primary. Mondale won the nomination, however, only to lose in a landslide to the incumbent, President Ronald Reagan, Republican of California, that November.
A male red deer is called both a stag and a hart.
Hugh Hefner wanted to call his new magazine “Stag Party”, which included a cartoon mascot of a stag in a tuxedo. But a letter from the lawyers of Stag Magazine informed him it was an infringement on their title, so he went with Playboy instead.
There is a Democratic Party in every one of the United States. In Minnesota, however, it is called the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), reflecting a political alliance dating back to 1944.
The Democratic Party was founded in 1828 and predominantly built by Martin Van Buren. Van Buren assembled politicians in every state behind war hero Andrew Jackson. It is the world’s oldest active political party.
The Republican Party emerged in the mid-1850s as the main political rival of the Democratic Party, and the two parties have dominated American politics since.
Martin Van Buren spoke Dutch as his first language.
Martin Luther King Jr. sang, as a 10-year-old boy, with his church’s Gospel choir at the segregated 1939 Atlanta premiere of Gone with the Wind.
Margaret Mitchell began writing Gone with the Wind in 1926 to pass the time while recovering from a slow-healing injury from an auto crash.
George Twok Ahgupuk (1911-2001), an Inupiat artist, began drawing while in a sanitarium recovering from tuberculosis. During that visit, he occupied himself by drawing on some toilet paper, the only available drawing surface. A nurse named Nan Gallagher was impressed with his art and purchased some paper and crayons for him, commissioning some Christmas cards for pay. Other nurses and doctors soon purchased his work, and Ahgupuk was able to return home with $10 earned from his artwork.
He began drawing scenes of village life on many media and developed a technique of curing animal hides and drawing the scenes on them in ink (I have several). He also illustrated a number of books, including one by Norman Rockwell. His Native name, Twok, means “man”.
Judge Sean Gallagher of the Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals is a former Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Cuyahoga County, and a former judge of Cleveland Municipal Court. He is a Democrat and lives in Cleveland.
The stand-up comedian known as Gallagher (real name: Leo Gallagher) was involved in a lengthy legal dispute with his younger brother, Ron, who also worked as a touring comedian. Ron bore a strong resemblance to his brother, and initially had his brother’s permission to perform Leo’s signature “Sledge-o-Matic” routine, as long as it was made clear that Ron was not the “original” Gallagher.
However, as time went on, Ron’s promotional materials and advertising made this distinction less clear, and Leo successfully sued his brother over trademark violations and false advertising, forcing Ron to cease performing or promoting himself in a way that was imitative of Leo.