President Ford was the recipient of the worst press coverage I can recall. The press constistently portrayed him as a bumbling idiot and took delight in highlighting his physical mishaps even though he was he most athletic president in history.
You can replace Ford with Bush and it sounds exactly the same.. The press hates anyone with an "R" after their name.
"The press constistently portrayed him as a bumbling idiot and took delight in highlighting his physical mishaps even though he was he most athletic president in history."
You got that right. His wife was a dancer when young. Ford was very athletic. I wish him the best. He has lived a long and full life, a good man who came along at the right time as a much needed transitional President who could calm the country down. And he did.
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At his swearing-in President FORD stated that "America's long nightmare of Vietnam was over."
NOT.
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
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I remember it well, along with how they portrayed Jimmah as the nice guy, the savior, with the permanent Cheshire cat grin on his face. And, as a first time voter, I fell for it. Jimmah, the first, and last, Democrat I ever voted for.