[Alberta's Child]

When making historical comparisons, you can take everything related to President Ford and throw it out the window. He was never elected President in the first place. In fact, he was never elected Vice President, either. He was appointed as Nixon’s VP after Spiro Agnew resigned.

Gerald Ford was a man who had the charisma of a grapefruit, and had no political base of support outside the District of Columbia.

[Theodore R.]

Ford said that the highlight of his administration was the nomination of ultra-liberal John Paul Stevens in 1975.