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Article: 2 Senior Democrats Plan To End Careers in House; Ford, Edwards, 2 Others Announce Retirements
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- The Washington Post
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- January 26, 1994
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Two senior Democrats who never backed away from old-fashioned
liberalism, Rep. William D. Ford (Mich.) and Rep. Don Edwards
(Calif.), announced yesterday that they will retire from the House
at the end of this year.
Ford, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee,
arrived in Congress in 1965 and cast some of his first votes for
President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society programs. Ford remained
an advocate of Johnson's vision of a caring, activist role for
government for the next 30 years. Unlike some liberals, the
Detroit-area Democrat did not waver during the 1980s in the face of
President Ronald Reagan's conservative coalition.
"I began my congressional career with the ...