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It also requires jump-starting the country 's ruined economy , refurbishing its schools and almost non-existent health system , opening airports and harbours and building roads - while the same time nurturing greater political freedom . This odd little gentleman was dressed in a loose surtout of sky-blue satin , with tight breeches to match , fastened with silver buckles at the knees . I lost not a moment , accordingly , in throwing overboard first my ballast , then my water-kegs , then my condensing apparatus and gum-elastic chamber , and finally every article within the car . The initiative will support three distinct efforts to strengthen journalism education : curriculum enrichment ( based at journalism schools at the University of Southern California ; University of California , Berkeley ; Northwestern University and Columbia University ) ; News21 ( an innovative student internship program ) and the Carnegie-Knight Task Force on Journalism . Nearly 10 per cent of the graduating seniors from universities such as Harvard and Yale are volunteering for Teach for America — ready and willing to spend two years teaching in the roughest public schools . With the exception of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt , no president has inherited a situation as difficult as that which faced Gerald Ford on Aug. 9 , 1974 , when he took the oath of office . In sharp distinction to the situation in other industrial countries , there is an increasing move away from respecting the scientific method in US schools . Suspended by blue ribbons to the end of this fantastic machine , there hung , by way of car , an enormous drab beaver hat , with a brim superlatively broad , and a hemispherical crown with a black band and a silver buckle .