The only man never elected to either vice president or president who served both has passed away. Most people don\'t know too much about Fords politics so here\'s a crash course so you can act smart:
*Republican
*vice president for 1 year 1973-8/9/1974 under Nixon
*Became president on Nixon’s resignation, 1974-1977. Gave full pardon to Nixon.
*Upon becoming president he stated "I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, and so I ask you to confirm me as your President with your prayers."
*Gave conditional pardons to "draft dodgers" who had left the country. Unconditional pardons did not come in until then Carter administration
*Offered to have Homer over to watch the football game, drink a few beers and eat some nachos
*Oldest living president at time of death
*Appointed Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense in 1975
*Yet another Yale produced president (not a skull and bones member)
*President during the bicentennial year of 1976
*Negotiated the signing over of the Panama Canal to panama which took place on 12/31/99
*Appointed the Warren commission (first in-depth investigation into JFK assassination)
*Withdrew our troops from Vietnam, 4/30/75 we evacuated the American embassy in Saigon by helicopter, one of the most famous images of the end of the war
*1976 election had to win the republican nomination, barley beating out California governor Ronald Regan. Lost to democrat Jimmy Carter.
is it bad that the only thing I could think of when I heard about this was the old SNL skit with "Tom Brokaw" going on vacation so he had to read a whole bunch of "possible news stories" and they were all about Ford dying in odd ways.
yup. He\'s kind of forgotten about as a president, but I would rather have him than agnew. The only thing I could think of was the chevy chgase xmas at the white house and the simpsons episode with him and gw1.
gerald ford was also born in omaha, nebraska.
^^^ that\'s so corn-y!
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called for excessive use of painful double-entendres