[Rennes Templar]

“Gerald R. Ford International Airport”

Seems like a lot of things are named after Gerald R. Ford.

Other than pardoning Nixon, what did Gerald R. Ford ever do?

[cyclotic]

I bought a ticket last night to fly there for a family function next month.

Outside of AMWAY, Leslie King is about the most famous person to come out of GR.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

...what did Gerald R. Ford ever do?

He was a great slapstick comedian.

[stockpirate]

He held the country together after Nixon left.

[Fiji Hill]

Other than pardoning Nixon, what did Gerald R. Ford ever do?

Gerald Ford was, indeed, a great president.

• He appointed the great conservative Nelson Rockefeller to be his vice president

• He stood by and did nothing as the North Vietnamese overran South Vietnam

• To fight inflation, he urged everyone to wear a WIN (whip inflation now) button

• His wife Betty was constantly on the phone lobbying for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment

• He snubbed the great Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn so as not to disrupt our policy of detente with the Soviet Union.

• He liberated Poland by proclaiming it to be free of Soviet domination in a debate with Jimmy Carter

[FourtySeven]

I think a lot of the locations you may hear or read named after Ford are in Michigan, which makes sense, since he was from Michigan (I believe he served in Congress in some capacity for the state and also went to the University of Michigan where he played football for the University).

[fieldmarshaldj]

He was the Congressman from Grand Rapids for almost three decades, so a local political figure.