{"id":22336,"date":"2025-10-30T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22336\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:58:07","slug":"new-york-daily-news-flashback-ford-to-city-drop-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22336\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Daily News Flashback: &#8220;Ford to City: Drop Dead&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 30, 1975: In perhaps its most iconic front page, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2015\/10\/29\/ford-to-city-drop-dead-in-1975\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The News<\/a> hit out at President Ford for saying he would veto any bill calling for a federal bailout of New York City and proposing legislation that would make it easier for the city to go into bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>While Ford never used the words \u201cdrop dead,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/28\/nyregion\/28veto.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acknowledged<\/a> the sentiment essentially cost him the presidency when Jimmy Carter narrowly carried the state of New York in 1976. He did eventually provide federal loans to the city, which were repaid with interest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"President Gerald Ford speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1975. (AP Photo)\" width=\"4653\" height=\"1263\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25226598944976-cropped.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8575757\" \/>President Gerald Ford speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1975. (AP Photo)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_inline lazyautosizes alignright lazyload\" alt=\"\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Daily_News_1975_10_30_67-Edited.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8575708\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From the editorial pages: \u201cPresident Gerald Ford made it abundantly clear yesterday that the White House wants no part of any constructive effort to help New York City avoid default. Indeed, the President seems to feel that we ought to welcome insolvency as a healthy, purifying atonement for all our past fiscal sins of omission and commission. \u2026 This totally negative approach was accompanied by a great deal of solemn sermonizing on the city\u2019s abysmal record for waste, extravagance and financial finagling, the lushness of its welfare-state programs, the exorbitant salaries and pensions it has granted civil servants. This recital of wrongdoing was nothing less than a stab in the back of a great city \u2014 an act of cheap politics that plays recklessly on anti-New York sentiment across the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>** For more New York Daily News Flashbacks, subscribe to our morning newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nydailynews.com\/1nydn\/preference\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. It will provide you with our latest coverage of local news, transit, weather and NYC events. **<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 30, 1975: In perhaps its most iconic front page, The News hit out at President Ford for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[267,9,24,55,54,10,12,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-22336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-local-news","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}