Yahoo news story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061227/ap_ ... /obit_ford
Former President GERALD FORD, dies at 93
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Mr Ford will be remembered, among other things, for using a sticking plaster on the Middle East. At least he didn't try to export democracy to the region. Pardoning Mr Nixon was also slightly dodgy.
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
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I am seen as left of center in the present political climate, but those are the very sort of conservative values I respect and try to uphold.dwinterfield wrote:Ford stood up for public service, moderation, accountability and integrity. We'd be better off if today's leaders had clue about the value of those concepts.
As the news stories point out, Ford was a superb athlete who
declined a career in professional football. Clumsy
he wasn't. But once the media get you in their sights
they follow you around and seize on whatever clumsy
thing you do and howl it from the rooftops, so that it
defines you in the public's mind.
Pardoning Nixon, which Ford knew might cost him
the presidency (he was referred to by the Dems as
'the man who pardoned Nixon'), was a brave thing to do.
Ford believed a trial would do the country more
harm than good, tear it apart, in fact, and prevent it from
doing what it desperately needed to do: move on from
the debacle of Watergate. It would have been sheer agony for
most Americans, and Nixon had already been humiliated profoundly and
reduced to a remnant of the man he had been. It
wasn't pay-back or corruption. Political courage is
costly.
Jimmy Carter summed up Ford and his presidency with
his pronouncement, immediately after his inauguration,
his first words as president:
'Let me thank my predecessor
for all he has done to bring us together again.'
Carter, a more clever and articulate man, ate Ford for
breakfast in the presidential debates. But I expect
that Ford would have been a more successful president.
declined a career in professional football. Clumsy
he wasn't. But once the media get you in their sights
they follow you around and seize on whatever clumsy
thing you do and howl it from the rooftops, so that it
defines you in the public's mind.
Pardoning Nixon, which Ford knew might cost him
the presidency (he was referred to by the Dems as
'the man who pardoned Nixon'), was a brave thing to do.
Ford believed a trial would do the country more
harm than good, tear it apart, in fact, and prevent it from
doing what it desperately needed to do: move on from
the debacle of Watergate. It would have been sheer agony for
most Americans, and Nixon had already been humiliated profoundly and
reduced to a remnant of the man he had been. It
wasn't pay-back or corruption. Political courage is
costly.
Jimmy Carter summed up Ford and his presidency with
his pronouncement, immediately after his inauguration,
his first words as president:
'Let me thank my predecessor
for all he has done to bring us together again.'
Carter, a more clever and articulate man, ate Ford for
breakfast in the presidential debates. But I expect
that Ford would have been a more successful president.
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Justice is costly too, Jim. Mr Nixon was not a very good man, and Mr Ford let him off. I'm surprised at your expression of expedience.jim stone wrote:Pardoning Nixon, which Ford knew might cost him
the presidency (he was referred to by the Dems as
'the man who pardoned Nixon'), was a brave thing to do.
Ford believed a trial would do the country more
harm than good, tear it apart, in fact, and prevent it from
doing what it desperately needed to do: move on from
the debacle of Watergate. It would have been sheer agony for
most Americans, and Nixon had already been humiliated profoundly and
reduced to a remnant of the man he had been. It
wasn't pay-back or corruption. Political courage is
costly.
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
