Back when Ford was President, Brokaw used every opportunity to portray Ford as an awkward and stupid man. The implication was Nixon chose Ford as his vice president because of his stupidity. Today Brokaw was singing Fords praises. I doubt if he even once mentioned that he (Brokaw)had been wrong in his assessment of Ford in the 1970s.
First let me tell you of my personal experience with Gerald Ford. Ford when he was Minority leader of the House was close friends with an Republican congressman from Ohio. I owned a highly rated radio station in this Ohio Congressman's district. When I went to Washington D.C., which I did fairly frequently, I always called on my Congressman. >He would nearly always invite me to have lunch with him and quite often his good friend Congressman Ford would dine with us.
Ford was a very bright man. Talk with him for a minute or two and his intelligence was apparent. He had also been a starter on a Michigan football team that won the national championship.
How many awkward and stumbling people ever get a starting position on a National Championship Michigan Football team?
That means he must be a less than bright athlete, right? Wrong!!! Ford graduated 3rd in his law school class at Yale. He also won a phi beta kappa key. How many dummies do you think graduate 3rd from the Yale law school while earning a phi beta kappa key? None would be a good answer.
Gerald Ford was not a great public speaker. But he was a brilliant man as anyone who tried to debate him one on one certainly knows.
He took over this nation at the depth of Watergate. There was 14 percent inflation and over 9 percent unemployment. He took the heat to put Watergate behind us. He took the proper steps to cut inflation and unemployment in half. He healed a very sick nation and in return got attacked daily in the main stream media.
It angers me that media types trash men like Ford and Reagan when they are alive and then praise them when they are dead.
I take comfort in the fact that the media anchors receive praise while they are alive, but I believe they will be trashed for centuries after their deaths.
Even the media anchors now understand what a great job Gerald Ford did as president... even with the total opposition of the media.
Thanks for sharing all that. I'm glad I missed seeing Tom Broke-jaw on TV. Miserable hypocrite. So typical of the elitist Left.
I enjoyed your recollections about Ford. It isn't every day you hear things like that from someone who used to sometimes lunch with a President-to-be. Lucky you!
What I've heard several times on FNC is that Gerald Ford graduated in the ***top one-third*** of his Yale Law School class. I've read most of your posts about him, which I've thoroughly enjoyed, and in each you say he was ranked no. 3 in his class.
I wonder if we, or someone else (I'm too busy caring for my chronically ill mother), can find a credible source to settle that point of difference...