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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: chesty_puller

Were you one of the Marine honor guards?


81 posted on 12/26/2006 8:58:57 PM PST by Pyro7480 ("Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world." - Pope Blessed Pius IX)
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To: chesty_puller

I met him in Athens and had a 15 minute one on one conversation with him while he was waiting to go on a cruise ship in the 90s. I have a picture inscribed with a personal greeting to remember the event. Very down to earth, pleasant person. Served this country well in a critical period. He did the right thing in pardoning Nixon.


82 posted on 12/26/2006 8:59:11 PM PST by kabar
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To: Borges

May he rest in peace, and prayers for his family.

He is the first president I really remember :)


83 posted on 12/26/2006 8:59:24 PM PST by Santa Fe_Conservative
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I think he died in the hospital he was not swimming he was sick


84 posted on 12/26/2006 8:59:31 PM PST by al baby (Hi mom)
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To: Borges
RIP President Ford - he was a good man in a tough spot.


Gerald R. Ford, Jr. on the field of Michigan Stadium at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 1933.

Gerry's gone up to join Schembechler and Yost at the Big House in the sky....

85 posted on 12/26/2006 8:59:32 PM PST by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity.)
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To: Borges

Prayers for President Ford and his family.


86 posted on 12/26/2006 8:59:34 PM PST by mysterio
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To: Borges

RIP and thanks to President Gerald Ford.


87 posted on 12/26/2006 8:59:35 PM PST by NewLand (Always Remember September 11, 2001)
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To: Borges

The first KING to be president.


He was born Lesley King and had his name changed when he was adopted.


88 posted on 12/26/2006 8:59:41 PM PST by irishtenor (Save the whales. Collect the whole set.)
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To: Borges

93 years, a good long run. May he rest in peace. Prayers to Mrs. Ford and the family.


89 posted on 12/26/2006 8:59:51 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: PhilDragoo

great picture


90 posted on 12/26/2006 8:59:56 PM PST by tina07 (In Memory of my Father - WWII Army Air Force Veteran)
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To: LisaMalia
FYI.. In my stocking this weekend, I got a book, "Halsey's Typhoon"..about the storm that struck the Pacific Fleet off Okinawa in WW II. Among the pics is one of Lt Gerald Ford playing basketball aboard one of the carriers just before the storm hit.

Ford's legacy is still debatable, IMHO, and not because he didn't know that Poland wasn't then a free country, but rather because his pardon of Nixon gave us four years of Carter...

I do hope that the Ford family has a modest burial, lest comparisons with Reagan's funeral be made.

91 posted on 12/26/2006 9:00:19 PM PST by ken5050
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92 posted on 12/26/2006 9:00:32 PM PST by Kirkwood
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To: Pyro7480
Were you one of the Marine honor guards?

Army

93 posted on 12/26/2006 9:00:41 PM PST by chesty_puller (USMC 70-73 3MAF VN 70-71 US Army 75-79 3d Inf Old Guard)
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Thank you for you service to our nation President Ford. Rest with God now.


94 posted on 12/26/2006 9:00:45 PM PST by backtothestreets (Invite Jesus to pray with you.)
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To: Borges
My favorite Gerald Ford quote was "A government big enough to give you everything you want is also a government big enough to take from you everything you have."

Well, he did have a very long life.

95 posted on 12/26/2006 9:00:47 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I'm 84 days from outliving Steve Irwin)
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To: ken5050
but rather because his pardon of Nixon gave us four years of Carter...

Which then gave us eight years of Reagan.

96 posted on 12/26/2006 9:00:55 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: chesty_puller
He was a very fine man.

Yes he was. I share his hometown and alma mater so I do have a bias though. Still, I remember when he spoke to a small political science class while I was at Michigan and explained the Nixon pardon. I have never forgotten his genuine goodness and love of country.

97 posted on 12/26/2006 9:00:55 PM PST by Dolphy
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To: Borges

Wow. Prayers.


98 posted on 12/26/2006 9:00:57 PM PST by RushCrush (Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man)
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To: ken5050

Glad he had a long and rich life. RIP.


99 posted on 12/26/2006 9:00:58 PM PST by umgud (I love NASCAR as much as the Democrats hate Bush)
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To: Borges
President Jerry Ford worked with Peter Paul in support of his efforts to make California the leading state in the three year Bicentennial of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.


100 posted on 12/26/2006 9:01:02 PM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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