The current occupant of 10 Downing Street hardly needs reminding of the need to focus on growth and employment.

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The former chancellor also had advice for the current occupant of No 11 Downing Street, urging him to drop his secondary role as the Conservatives' chief political and election strategist.

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Truman left office in 1953 with ratings that were worse than those of the current White House occupant.

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Ford also didn't flinch when the Federal Reserve's anti-inflation tightening plunged the U.S. into its worst economic downturn since the 1930s. (Sadly, the gains against inflation--the rate had fallen almost three-fourths by the time Ford left office--were lost, and then some, under President Jimmy Carter.) And, unlike the current White House occupant, President Ford readily used his veto pen on excessive spending bills and other legislation he thought harmful.

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