This will be the first Presidential election since 1952 (Ike vs Stevenson) in which neither the sitting President nor sitting Vice-President is running. In fact, Dick Cheney will be the first Veep since Agnew to not run for the White House.
Wasn't Ford's Veep Rockefeller? When did he run for the WH? When Ford ran for re-election he had Dole as his running mate, which seemed odd to me.