Like President Ford, I had visited the hospital prior to my official stroke diagnosis.
Greenspan writes that politics carries much more weight in the Bush White House than it did under President Ford.
It was an ignominious end to a painful war, and by most accounts, it reflected badly on President Ford.
Indeed, a telling rejoinder to the House managers' argument comes from President Ford.
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At the 1976 Republican convention, President Ford was able to fight off a challenge from former California governor Ronald Reagan.
President Ford said he feared the victorious communist Vietcong would have no mercy for abandoned infants, especially those fathered by American soldiers.
In 1974, President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former President Nixon.
President Ford tried one last time to inject millions of dollars into the flagging South Vietnamese government, but Congress would have nothing of it.
Sometimes, the media focus on "gaffes, " like then-President Ford's declaration in 1976 that he didn't consider Poland to be dominated by the Soviet Union.
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In the mid-'70s, the Big Apple paid 8% on 10-year paper, a great to-do for the brave of heart after President Ford told us to drop dead.
Looking overseas, one smiles at the memory of President Ford declaring in 1976 that Romania and Poland were not under the domination of the former Soviet Union.
He stayed on in that role in President Ford's administration.
They'll work with Ford's next generation of leaders--people like Mark Fields, group vice president of Ford's Premier Automotive Group, and Martin Leach, president of Ford of Europe--to shape a strategy.
The steel lobby claims foreign competition is killing the industry, but that is simply not true: American steel-making capacity is no lower now than it was when President Ford was contemplating sanctions.
Later on, Souter became a full-fledged member of the court's unabashedly liberal caucus, featuring yet another Republican, John Paul Stevens (appointed by President Ford in 1975), who remains a member of the court to this day.
The Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) was created in 1976 by President Ford in response to recommendations made by the Rockefeller Commission calling for a Presidential-level body with specific oversight responsibilities for the legality and propriety of US intelligence activities.
In 1976, President Ford sent a bipartisan delegation comprising many accomplished American women to Geneva to draft the initial text of CEDAW. Hutar's skill as a negotiator proved critical in persuading Communist countries to approve the text of the treaty.
When President Ford was faced with a Supreme Court vacancy shortly after the nation was still recovering from the Watergate scandal, he wanted a nominee who was brilliant, non-ideological, pragmatic, and committed above all to justice, integrity, and the rule of law.
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And what will they turn on -- a personality quirk like Gore sighing impatiently during a debate with Bush in 2000, a factual slip-up as in 1976 when President Ford said Poland was not under control of Soviet Union, or a deeper discussion on an important issue?
History reveals that sitting presidents do not suffer from debate results unless they say something remarkably stupid as President Ford did in his debate with Jimmy Carter or when the man already holding the job is forced to face an unusually skilled and charming communicator such as Ronald Reagan.
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Ford also didn't flinch when the Federal Reserve's anti-inflation tightening plunged the U.S. into its worst economic downturn since the 1930s. (Sadly, the gains against inflation--the rate had fallen almost three-fourths by the time Ford left office--were lost, and then some, under President Jimmy Carter.) And, unlike the current White House occupant, President Ford readily used his veto pen on excessive spending bills and other legislation he thought harmful.
Last but not least, President Gerald Ford pardoned former president Richard Nixon.
They sent a lot of letters to President Gerald Ford and the president logically decided that the ship should be named after our spaceship Enterprise.
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Former President Gerald Ford, the nation's 38th president who turns 91 next month, said he and his wife will attend Reagan's funeral.
And, as almost every reviewer has noted, President Harrison Ford is so absurdly over-endowed with gifts that he's really President James Bond.
Like when President Gerald Ford prematurely liberated Eastern Europe at a 1976 debate.
In 1975 President Gerald Ford had told New York City, which was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, to drop dead.
One speech that often receives attention in top 10 lists is President Gerald Ford's State of the Union address in 1975.
The president of Ford Australia, Geoff Polites, said on Friday that any more stoppages could trigger a shift to overseas suppliers.
In 1976, incumbent President Gerald Ford challenged Democratic nominee Jimmy Carter to a debate, heralding a new era of presidential debates.
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