Gerald Ford has died at age 93

[Lanya]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ford27dec27,0,5566263.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon's scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America's history, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday. He was 93.

[yellow_crane]

I can recall two quotes from Ford:

1) "the business of America is business."

2)  'he's pardoned.'

[Xavier_Onassis]

Ford perfected the Nixonian retirement coup of getting rich from being an ex-president without costing the taxpayers much.

Every year or so, he would move from one tasteful Palm Springs mansion to another. Palm Springs is full of social climbers whose crowing career trophy is living in an ex-presidential home. He could sell anyplace he lived in for a cool million more than it cost to build. Whole neighborhoods formed around his homes.

Nixon only moved about four times, but the Fords were veritable gypsies.

He was not the sharpest tack in the box, but compared to Juniorbush he was a statesman. Better than Franklin Pierce, Warren G. Harding and on a par with Millard Fillmore, anyway.

Our best unelected president.

[Plane]

I remember the Swine Flu shot I never got.

And the wrestling with Reagan for the right.

All in all a good guy with a goofy humor and humility .

No one elese was ready and able to collect the shreads of the Executive and start to mend them when he did.

I see his presidency and Carters together as a period of wounded convelesence , and in those terms ,a success.

[Michael Tee]

<<I can recall two quotes from Ford . . . >>

Well, "I'm not a Lincoln, I'm a Ford" wasn't bad at all.

I'll remember him kindly as the guy who refused to put the plug back in after Congress finally pulled it on Viet Nam.

[Xavier_Onassis]

What was truly ironic was the thought that Ford was not as intelligent as Reagan.

Reagan was a good actor who knew less than nothing about anything except for acting, and simply was surrounded with a huge cadre of screeners who only let his monumental ignorance shine through about one a week, which was not enough to convince the ratwingers.

[Amianthus]

Our best unelected president.

And so far, our only unelected president.

[Mucho]

Ford was the last & rarest of breeds: A Republican that could be respected. He wasnt a genius, but knew it. He had humor and a great wife.

[kimba1]

isn`t chester arthur unelected.
and a pretty good one also

[Amianthus]

isn`t chester arthur unelected.

He was elected vice-president.

Ford was appointed to the position of vice-president, then took over as president when Nixon resigned. Ford never won an election for office as either vice-president or president.

[Brassmask]

Also, Ford was a co-conspirator after the fact in the murder of JFK.

[Amianthus]

Also, Ford was a co-conspirator after the fact in the murder of JFK.

Only in the minds of a very few. Not an actual fact, however.

[Xavier_Onassis]

isn`t chester arthur unelected.
and a pretty good one also
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Chester A. Arthur was elected Vice President, and took over when Garfield was assassinated..

Gerry Ford was not elected to anything other than the House of Representatives from Grand Rapids.

Nixon chose a crook, Spiro T Agnew to be his VP. When it became likely that Nixon would be impeached and removed from office, previously hidden evidence against Agnew was brought forth, because the GOP did not want Agnew in charge of the party or the country, so Agnew was confronted with the charges, and allowed to plead nolo contendere in return for his resignation. Then Ford, who was Minority leader of the House was named VP.

Then Nixon turned out to be a crook and had to resign, and Ford became president.

Ford's VP was Nelson Rockefeller, also named by a joint committee.

Rocky died humping his mistress, apparently.

[Brassmask]

Only in the minds of a very few. Not an actual fact, however.

Have you figured out some way to deny that he was a member of the Warren Commission?

[Amianthus]

Have you figured out some way to deny that he was a member of the Warren Commission?

That only makes him a "co-conspirator after the fact" in the minds of a very few, and it's still not an actual fact.