President Ford Passes Away


Gerald Ford remembered for post-Watergate leadership - CNN.com

RANCHO MIRAGE, California (CNN) — Democrats and Republicans on Wednesday remembered the late former President Gerald R. Ford as a man who led the nation out of the dark days of the Watergate scandal.Ford, 93, “died peacefully” Tuesday evening at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, his widow, Betty Ford said in a statement.

Brains and Eggs has a very good post about him. I don’t remember him as a president, I was alive, I just cared more about my saturday morning cartoons than I did politics. I have read A Time to Heal many years ago and was impressed by his candor. If you have some time and haven’t read it, it is one of the most readable presidential autobiographies you will ever find.

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