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	Michael Foot
		Michael Foot (born July 23, 1913) was a British politician and leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983.
		Following the Labour Party's general election defeat by Margaret Thatcher Foot was elected leader, gaining support through appearing to offer a compromise between Denis Healey (the candidate of right of the party) and the leftwing feeling centered around the figure of Tony Benn.
		Foot was not a natural leader, nor was he a good orator or political campaigner.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Michael_Foot.html (438 words)

	Michael Foot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Isaac Foot was an active member of the Liberal Party and was Liberal MP for Bodmin in Cornwall 1922–1924 and 1929–1935 and a Lord Mayor of Plymouth.
		Foot was however a critic of the west's handling of the Korean war, an opponent of West German rearmament in the early 1950s and a founder member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
		Foot was married to the film-maker, author and feminist historian Jill Craigie from 1949 until her death in 1999.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Foot (1631 words)

	Michael Foot@Everything2.com
		Michael Foot was born in Plymouth in 1913.
		Foot was a critic of the then Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell and became involved with the campaigns against nuclear weapons which would lead to the formation of the CND.
		Foot, although a decent, honourable man, was unable to steer his party effectively, and his image was tainted by bouts of bile from the right-wing press.
	www.everything2.com /?node_id=647450 (828 words)

	Michael Foot,
		Michael Foot was born at 1, Lipson Terrace in Plymouth on 23 July 1913 to Eva Mackintosh Foot.
		Michael Foot went on to become the first Labour MP for Devonport in 1945, successfully defending the seat against Randolph Churchill in 1950 and 1951.
		In fact Foot was dedicated to the workers of the dockyard and spent much of his energies in supporting the workers in improving their pay and conditions and would clearly not have seen the route to peace in arbitarily closing the industries that relied on the military in various forms.
	uk.geocities.com /jannerboyuk/foot/Foot1.htm (349 words)

	Michael Foot and left\|21Apr07\|Socialist Worker
		Foot came from a family of rich radical Liberals and was active in the Liberal Party as a student at Oxford university.
		Foot was on the left of the party on domestic issues – he stood firmly behind Bevan when the latter resigned from cabinet over the introduction of NHS prescription charges.
		Foot’s whole career expressed the contradictions of a party that is supposed to represent workers within a system that is hostile to their interests.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=11174 (1646 words)

	Michael Foot - FREE Michael Foot Biography \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
		MICHAEL FOOT was a somewhat flawed leader of the British Labour...
		As the chattering classes move to beatify Michael Foot, the Mail's sketch writer says he's the worst Labour leader ever and a hypocrite to boot.
		The Sunday Telegraph London; 3/25/2007; Anthony Howard; 866 words; Michael Foot: A Life BY KENNETH O. 25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 At the age of 93, Michael Foot is easily the doyen among the nine or...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-FootMich.html (1358 words)

	Michael Foot
		Foot was initially from a comfortable Radical rural background, which in the early part of the century still looked to the Liberal Party to encompass dissent.
		Foot was educated at a Quaker academy, at the behest of his father, Isaac.
		Michael Foot did protest privately at the incomes policy, attitude towards the Vietnam war and Wilson's extreme caution in changing any part of the British constitution.
	labhist.tripod.com /mfoot.htm (653 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Michael Foot and the Satanic Verses - Tuesday \| February 20, 2001
		Foot, who became both writer and politician, considers his own number one accomplishment to be his book on Aneurin Bevan, calling it "the most important thing I ever wrote".
		Foot went on to become editor of the Evening Standard under Lord Beaverbrook's patronage in 1942, and then entered Parliament in 1945 when Attlee's government came to power in the Labour victory after the war.
		Foot's credentials as a writer and bibliophile are sufficiently strong that he was chairman of the Booker Prize Committee the year Salmon Rushdie's book Satanic Verses was in the competition.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20010220/cleisure/cleisure5.html (735 words)

	BBC - Devon - Features - Taking on Thatcher
		Michael Foot really was the victim of bad timing - he was handed the leadership of the Labour Party at a time of desperate party in-fighting between left and right wings.
		Foot, a veteran left winger and a campaigner for nuclear disarmament, was a reluctant leader.
		Michael Foot says that looking back, his time as leader of the Labour Party was all about keeping the party together and preventing further defections to the SDP.
	www.bbc.co.uk /devon/discovering/famous/michael_foot.shtml (520 words)

	How The Labour Party Put The Wrong Foot Forward (from Sunday Herald)
		Michael Mackintosh Foot was still a cradle West Country Liberal then, what Kenneth O Morgan describes as a "nonconformist patrician".
		Foot was his comedy "beard" and there is no excuse, from that day to this, for Michael Foot, member of the National Union of Journalists, editor in name, running Beaverbrook's Evening Standard.
		Foot is excused at every turn, even when he chose to be a loyal minister of the crown.
	www.sundayherald.com /arts/arts/display.var.1251011.0.how_the_labour_party_put_the_wrong_foot_forward.php (878 words)

	: : drb.ie – dublin review of books : :
		Foot, then, was originally pro-Europe and was even disciplined by Transport House in 1948 for attending the founding conference of the Council of Europe at the Hague (the Labour government subsequently, in 1949, succeeded in greatly weakening the council’s potential as a vehicle for European union).
		Michael Foot frequently evokes Cromwell and was a vice-president, as was his brother John, of the Cromwell Association.
		Foot was at the time very sympathetic to Zionism as was, generally, the left of the Labour Party, obviously deeply affected by the sufferings of the Jews in Europe during the war.
	www.drb.ie /sept_thekingof.html (5197 words)

	Michael Foot
		Foot joined the Labour Party and was the unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for Monmouth in the 1935 General Election.
		Foot's left-wing views made him unpopular with the leadership of the Labour Party and he had the Labour Whip withdrawn from March, 1961, to May, 1963.
		Michael Foot was highly critical of Neville Chamberlain and his appeasement policy and welcomed his resignation on 10th May, 1940.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRfoot.htm (824 words)

	Isaac Foot by Michael Foot and Alison Highet
		Isaac Foot by Michael Foot and Alison Highet
		Michael Foot is one of the outstanding politicians of the twentieth century.
		Alison Highet is Isaac Foot's granddaughter and has painstakingly researched the vast range of material left by her grandfather, and has edited it and provided important linking passages from members of his family.
	www.politicospublishing.co.uk /titles.php/itemcode/70 (317 words)

	Michael Foot's lucky life - TLS Highlights - Times Online
		Michael is shown in Morgan’s volume as the favourite of Isaac and Eva’s seven talented, competitive children, three of whom succumbed to drink.
		When Jill and Michael Foot bought a new house in St John’s Wood for £6,000 (a lot in 1954), Jill raised £2,000 by selling the Renoir (only a minor one, we are assured) given her by an admirer, Malcolm (son of Ramsay) MacDonald.
		Michael White is an assistant editor (politics) of the Guardian, whose political editor he was from 1990 to 2006.
	tls.timesonline.co.uk /article/0,,25346-2637313,00.html (1943 words)

	.:: Breaking News ::.
		Michael was testing and riding at the Osborn Training facility, they had just put in a riding session and decided that the track needed some attention.
		Michael’s right foot suffered several minor breaks and his left foot suffered the majority of the damage.
		Michael would like to express a Thank You to his supporters and let the Canadian fans know how truly sorry he is that he will be unable to attend this race.
	www.racerxill.com /breakingnews/article/4936/michael-willard-injured.aspx (267 words)

	MichaelMoore.com : Mike's Books + Films
		One of the most controversial and provocative films of the year, Fahrenheit 9/11 is Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore's searing examination of the Bush administration's actions in the wake of the tragic events of 9/11.
		Michael Moore might have thought he'd have a problem doing a follow-up to "Roger & Me," his muckraking documentary that took General Motors CEO Roger Smith to task for closing a Buick plant and throwing thousands out of work.
		Michael Moore, the acclaimed filmmaker and #1 best-selling author whose latest movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, is the highest-grossing documentary of all time, will publish a collection of letters written to Mr.
	www.michaelmoore.com /books-films (1303 words)

	Michael Foot, by Alex Mayer
		The Foot boys were expected to succeed and by 1945 Foot was already doing well in journalism earning in the region of £4000 a year when the average salary of an MP was £400.
		Foot tried to help with the issue of the maintenance of employment at the dockyard which was always a problem for the people of Devonport.
		Foot was in favour of disarmament and as we have seen although he was warned not to mention the issue by local party members, he ignored their advice and made his views very public.
	www.mattmayer.com /essays/foot.htm (10898 words)

	Foot Michael Mackintosh - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Foot, Michael Mackintosh (1913- ), British politician, former Labour Party leader (1980-1983).
		Foot was born the son of Sir Isaac Foot (Liberal...
		Foot, in human anatomy, lowest structure on the leg, consisting of 26 bones and loosely resembling the hand.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Foot_Michael_Mackintosh.html (171 words)

	Michael Foot. - book reviews Contemporary Review - Find Articles
		Michael was a Devon man and like Drake he beat his drum for such causes, whether in such remarkable pamphlets as 'Guilty Men' or 'The Trial of Mussolini'.
		Throughout Michael's career there seems to be a distinct flavour of the liberalism into which he was born and which enabled him to strike up a cordial relationship with David Steele during the Lib/Lab understanding which preceded the demise of the Callaghan Government.
		Michael Foot was not alone in helping to shape the ideas of those voters who put Labour into power in 1945 and it is perhaps fitting that Victor Gollancz should be his publisher.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_n1542_v265/ai_15695177 (1006 words)

	Michael Foot at 90 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Michael Foot, author and Labour leader, was born in 1913, son of the Liberal MP Isaac Foot.
		Foot was a devout Bevanite, supporting Nye Bevan in his 1950s battles against Gaitskell.
		Michael Foot won the leadership of the election narrowly.
	www.tribweb.co.uk /michaelfoot/biography/archivebiog.htm (756 words)

	Michael Foot Biography
		Michael Foot (born 1913) was a left-wing journalist, a British Labour Party member of Parliament, and leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983.
		Michael Foot was born on July 23, 1913, in Plymouth, England.
		Michael Mackintosh Foot (born 23 July 1913) is an English politician and writer.
	www.bookrags.com /Michael_Foot (95 words)

	Augusta Chronicle - Foot injury fails to derail boy's dreams 06/19/03
		Michael Holley dreams of taking the mound for the South Augusta Sidewinders and leading his team to a USSSA Youth Baseball national championship in July.
		Michael lost the big toe on his right foot, and faced the possibility of never playing baseball again.
		With Michael on the mound, the Sidewinders are headed to Dublin, Ga., this weekend to compete in a USSSA state tournament.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/061903/mue_MPS-5648.000.shtml (801 words)

	Review: Michael Foot by Kenneth O Morgan \| By genre \| guardian.co.uk Books
		To describe the Eighties as they really were is not to diminish Michael Foot, particularly since some of the problems arose from his natural inclination towards tolerance and understanding.
		Foot was, and still is, a great man who deservedly inspires affection as well as admiration.
		Foot was the greatest polemicist of his day, whose speeches and pamphlets - denouncing both the Tory government and the Labour governments of which he disapproved - no other controversialist could match.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/biography/0,,2030913,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10 (1022 words)

	Jill Craigie, wife of Michael Foot, dies
		JILL CRAIGIE, the actress, author and wife of the former Labour leader Michael Foot, has died at the age of 85.
		It was while she was working on The Way We Live that she met Mr Foot, then standing as the Labour candidate for Plymouth Devonport in the 1945 general election.
		Michael and herself were desperately in love and it has lasted all this time.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/12/15/ncra15.html (508 words)

	Michael Foot at 90 - LSHG Message Board
		Michael Foot is ninety years old on 23 July 2003.
		As a birthday present and to mark the publication of a new anthology of his essays, The Uncollected Michael Foot.
		To fully establish Michael's cyber presence and to get across to him the difference between the internet and a fax, we want to have a section that he can read on screen but that we can also print and present to him on his birthday.
	www.londonsocialisthistorians.org /messageboard/showthread.php?t=135 (385 words)

	Saint Michael? You must be joking \| Mail Online
		Foot may argue that his notorious support for the unions' rapacious demands in the 1970s - demands that practically bankrupted Britain - flowed from a belief in organised labour.
		Foot, as a newspaperman, professed his ardent desire for freedom of speech, yet he pushed through the closed shop system for the National Union of Journalists, an outrageous brake on the freedom of writers.
		Foot's allies often put it about what a charmer he was, but in public there were few more acerbic orators.
	www.mailonsunday.co.uk /pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=447224&in_page_id=1770 (3142 words)

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