I agree. Unfortunately, President Ford was a victim of the Watergate time. It did not matter what he did, he still had the Watergate and Nixon albatross around his neck.He was getting his act together, but Americans thought differently and gave it to Carter because as many Carter voters told me, he (Carter) would be a fresh breeze. Some breeze Carter turned out to be, he breezed our country toward weakness and vacillation. It took a strong leader like Reagan to make America proud again.
The late Shah of Iran helped Gerald Ford, financially, to continue the presidential campaign and Carter took revenge!
I lost a lot of friends due to my stand for Ford against Carter. They won the election and America lost.