Letter from Washington

God and Man and Ford at Yale? It was a good week for the rumors and theories that form the staples of political conversation here. Two of the best concern Gerald Ford, who still lacks an appropriate forum from which to communicate with the nation, and thus keep his name in the forefront of the national consciousness as the leading Republican presidential contender for 1980.

The most intriguing of the rumors has Ford being offered and accepting the presidency of Yale. Kingman Brewster, who is leaving to become ambassador to Great Britain, became highly suspect among older and more conservative alumni during the excesses of the late Sixties and early Seventies, when he seemed to many an apologist for the counterculture. But Ford, so the theory goes, would quickly ungreen that image, his appointment pleasing many of those alumni whose affections for Alma Mater waned and whose donations fell off during the greening of Brewster.

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God and Man and Ford at Yale? It was a good week for the rumors and theories that form the staples of political conversation here. Two of the best concern Gerald Ford, who still lacks an appropriate forum from which to communicate with the nation, and thus keep his name in the forefront of the national consciousness as the leading Republican presidential contender for 1980.

The most intriguing of the rumors has Ford being offered and accepting the presidency of Yale. Kingman Brewster, who is leaving to become ambassador to Great Britain, became highly suspect among older and more conservative alumni during the excesses of the late Sixties and early Seventies, when he seemed to many an apologist for the counterculture. But Ford, so the theory goes, would quickly ungreen that image, his appointment pleasing many of those alumni whose affections for Alma Mater waned and whose donations fell off during the greening of Brewster.