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To: Mo1 No, I didn't forget anything. Gerald Ford was president for approximately 2years after Nixon resigned. Ford maintained that he would not run for president. He lied but won the nomination over a conservative therefore giving us one of the worst Democrat presidents ever.

677 posted on 05/06/2006 8:17:40 PM PDT by texastoo ("trash the treaties")

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Cva--fyi

Texasforever-- you response "balony"

Mo1-- your response, "I think you need to reread history".

Here is your history lesson that you evidently didn't read.

The Ford Memoirs Behind the Nixon Pardon

471 U.S. 577> On the Decision to Run Again. Ford was, he tells us, so sincere in his intention not to run again that he thought he would announce it and enhance his credibility in the country and the Congress, as well as keep the promise he had made to his wife, Betty.

Kissinger talked him out of it. “You can’t do that. It would be disastrous from a foreign policy point of view. For the next two and a half years foreign governments would know that they were dealing with a lame-duck President. All our initiatives would be dead in the water, and I wouldn’t be able to implement your foreign policy. It would probably have the same consequences in dealing with <225 USPQ 1088> the Congress on domestic issues. You can’t reassert the authority of the Presidency if you leave yourself hanging out on a dead limb. You’ve got to be an affirmative President.”

Someone, evidently, leaked this as it was common knowledge during the election.

http://eric_goldman.tripod.com/ipcourse/nationarticle.htm