Sad news today:
RANCHO MIRAGE, California (CNN) — Former President Gerald Ford, who became president in 1974 after the resignation of Richard Nixon, died Tuesday at age 93.
Ford, the oldest surviving former U.S. president, died peacefully at 6:45 p.m. PT (9:45 p.m. ET) Tuesday at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, according to a statement from his office. The cause of death was not given.
I was 6 years old when Ford became President. Ford is the first President that I remember as a child (I don’t really remember Nixon being the President before Ford). Ford was the only unelected president in America’s history — I remember our teacher emphasising that fact.
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OTHERS:
- Rick Moran at Right Wing Nut House recounts meeting President Ford, just the two of them, alone in a hall way, and remembers him as a “good and decent man”.
- The Gun Toting Liberal remembers “Jerry” as an “extraordinary patriot”.
- Ann Althouse — “What I liked was the fact that he hadn’t presumed to seek the presidency. I have always instinctively resented anyone who thinks he should be President, and that has the overwhelming tendency to include everyone who ever runs.”
- Wonkette, being…well, the irritating and sour bitch that she is…can’t help but write a less-than-gracious post on President Ford.
Wonkette is a man.
The original writer, Ana Marie Cox, has moved on to cushy gigs bashing blogs at the behest of mainstream journalism.
Left by Preston on December 27th, 2006 at 1:48 pm