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President Gerald Ford is dead
Fox | 12/26/06

Posted on 12/26/2006 8:49:25 PM PST by Borges

Just Announced on Fox


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brotherford; ford; geraldford; masons; presidentford; rip
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To: Mr. Silverback

Gerald Ford should of pardoned everyone involved in Watergate. God rest his soul.


621 posted on 12/27/2006 3:37:59 PM PST by Ptarmigan (Ptarmigans will rise again!)
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To: tina07

It's on newsmax too :(


622 posted on 12/27/2006 3:56:15 PM PST by ImAmericanFirst (www.gopteamleader.com <--Let's Start Working on 2008 NOW! (Formerly MaineVoter2002))
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To: Borges

I read that Chevy Chase found him to be a fine man and a great individual


623 posted on 12/27/2006 4:06:11 PM PST by sodpoodle (if you can't handle the truth, try satire.)
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To: Borges

Does everyone remember President Ford's vice-president?

hint(NJR)


624 posted on 12/27/2006 4:09:43 PM PST by sodpoodle (if you can't handle the truth, try satire.)
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To: sodpoodle

His wife was sure Happy!


625 posted on 12/27/2006 5:39:02 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: ohioWfan

I also realize in retrospect that he was a man who was very comfortable in his own skin.

I think that helped him to be unfazed by the jokes, etc. He was an expert in American history also; very much so.


626 posted on 12/27/2006 6:14:23 PM PST by La Enchiladita (People get ready . . .)
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To: Borges

Gerald Ford knew where he kept his veto pen, and how to use it. Perhaps W could find it in himself, in his last two years, to emulate this.

President Ford had class, something that is rarely found in Washington today.

Bush is not the first Republican President to have a Bull's Eye painted on his back by the MSM. It was nauseating to turn on the news in those days and watch the constant pathetic and sickening belittlement of Ford because he was not a Democrat.

As in many other cases, Jimmy Carter could not have been elected without the press. He did not beat Ford by much, and that after a full court press by the MSM (and no internet). Frankly, if you take the media's blatent cheerleading into account, the fact that Carter barely won is an indication of what a loser he really was.


627 posted on 12/27/2006 6:30:13 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there)
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To: Borges
May God rest his soul.

...Under rather trying circumstances, he did his very best during his presidency in the mid 1970's in the shadow of a recently disgraced Richard M. Nixon.

...It's just too bad he didn't beat Jimmy Carter.
628 posted on 12/27/2006 6:54:38 PM PST by T Lady (The Mainstream Media: Public Enemy #1)
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To: Borges
I don't think Ford himself was on the program; it was his press secretary, Ron Nessen.

That actually was a rather amusing show!

629 posted on 12/27/2006 7:12:32 PM PST by 6323cd ("It is prohibited to make use of such emotional signs in a cellphone!")
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To: Borges

I heard he did fine and actually managed to down inflation by 6% in two years, and that he just gets bad press because he excused the president.


630 posted on 12/27/2006 7:30:34 PM PST by Vivianna
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To: higgmeister

Very good.

Who remembers that Bob Dole was on the 1976 GOP ticket?


631 posted on 12/28/2006 4:46:40 AM PST by sodpoodle (if you can't handle the truth, try satire.)
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To: MaestroLC

632 posted on 12/28/2006 7:17:32 AM PST by meg88
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To: Borges
Ford really was a good man. One more of the finer old guard passes, may he be blessed in his next life.
633 posted on 12/28/2006 7:34:48 AM PST by Candor7 (Into Liberal flatulance goes the best hope of the West, and who wants to be a smart feller?)
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To: Borges

See also:

Vail's Betty Ford Alpine Garden--A Garden of Repose


634 posted on 12/28/2006 3:23:51 PM PST by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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To: silent_jonny

Here's a very nice picture of President and Mrs. Ford, Post # 8.

Since you know how to post pictures, at your convenience, could you please post this to the daily dose, as an antidote to that non-complimentary picture CNN chose?

Thanks!
jm


635 posted on 12/30/2006 6:41:04 PM PST by JockoManning (http://www.klove.com listen online)
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To: meg88; silent_jonny; Quix

Thanks Megg88, to all, ping to post # 632, excellent picture of President Ford!


636 posted on 12/30/2006 6:42:35 PM PST by JockoManning (http://www.klove.com listen online)
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To: JockoManning

Here is nice letter post election loss to a supporter on sale on eBay. http://cgi.ebay.com/Gerald-Ford-Content-letter-signed-from-1976_W0QQitemZ280065756730QQihZ018QQcategoryZ32988QQcmdZViewItem


637 posted on 12/31/2006 9:48:27 AM PST by xp38
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To: meg88

Liberty!!!


638 posted on 12/31/2006 9:51:49 AM PST by sissyjane (Don't be stuck on stupid!)
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To: xp38

Thank you so much for the ping. I read the letter and it's very touching.

I was quite dissapointed Ford lost that year -- I was just 18, and so, my first time voting, I learned how it felt to have "my" candidate lose.

And my sentiments haven't changed except I am even more disapproving of Jimmy Carter now than I was then, globalist traitor / wolf in sheep's clothing that he is.

May God rest President Gerald Ford's soul in peace, and may He strengthen and comfort Mrs. Ford and the family, and may He continue to watch over and bless the United States.

Blessings to you, FRiend,
jm


639 posted on 12/31/2006 11:03:54 AM PST by JockoManning (http://www.klove.com listen online)
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To: JockoManning

I loved that pic.


640 posted on 01/03/2007 8:37:45 AM PST by meg88
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