In the 1976 presidential campaign, Ford used political ads featuring endorsements from Evangelical leaders to counter Jimmy Carter's image of piety and to turn the Baptist governor's famous Playboy interview against him. Today, with all the focus on religion and politics, a political ad of this sort would be unthinkable, yet it ran nationally in 1976.
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Lott (along with Eli Lehrer) has an editorial in the Washington Times which claims that the 1976 gun ban caused crime to increase.
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Readers here are probably already familiar with the Wegman report "strange scholarship" scandal but if not read up on it a bit
James B. Clark writes: