Live Thread - President Ford's Body Leaving Capitol for Final Time

FNC ^ | January 02, 2007 | AP

[Mo1]

WASHINGTON — Gerald R. Ford leaves his beloved U.S. Capitol for the last time Tuesday as the period set aside for ordinary Americans to say goodbye gives way to an elaborate invitation-only funeral at the awe-inspiring Washington National Cathedral.

As the first order of business Tuesday, Ford's remains were being removed from the Rotunda to lie in repose briefly outside the Senate before leaving the Capitol where Ford served as a congressman for 25 years. As vice president, Ford also had the constitutional title of president of the Senate.

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[Fudd Fan]

All I see in her mother's eyes is evil, pure evil.

[Fudd Fan]

Don't waste your time on DU, they're lower that anything we'd find on the bottom of our shoes.

[sissyjane]

I had to wash a very nasty dog. I won't explain why , let's just say the work explosive is included....

Does anyone know when the ceremony is starting in Michigan???

[beyond the sea]

Me too................ but mine are my grandmother's.

Are those things worth anything these days???

We have so many of them we could never live in a house boat. We'd sink.

;-)

[onyx]

Check e-bay and tell me. :)

[OldFriend]

Thank you for that update on Johnson. My prayers for his family. I do hope that the son who served in the military takes charge of his dad's hospital room and makes the decision that is best for his dad and the country.

[OldFriend]

I just got home and turned on the boob toob. There was Andrea Mitchell opining that it was Ronald Reagan's fault that Ford didn't win the presidency. It was the primary battle that did it!

Evidently St. Gerald Ford has now reached a state of deification in the media.

[beyond the sea]

Check e-bay and tell me. :)

I'll think about doing that.

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[OldFriend]

Don't forget the Saturday Night Massacre......when Nixon fired the Attorney General, the next one quit and finally one stepped up and agreed to take the position.

Wish I could remember all the details but it was truly a time of madness.

[Txsleuth]

LOL....you are like butter today...on a ROLL!!

[linda_22003]

You said you were "raised a Democrat" and I just assumed it was your parents who raised you.

[Texas_shutterbug]

Yes, I feel for him, and I can't imagine how his family is coping with this. And at the holidays, too.

[La Enchiladita]

Oh my gosh, there is hardly anything as tasteless as being an uninvited guest in someone's hospital room ... is that what you're saying Reid has been doing?

[txrangerette]

Steve Ford, not Jack, was the actor. I expect you've got the right son but just put the wrong name to him.

[OldFriend]

Old Joe Kennedy paid Jackie a million dollars to stay with JFK.

She was for sale to the end of her life. The media made her out to be some kind of saint but frankly she was a prostitute who ended her life living with a man married to another woman.

[sissyjane]

When do the Michigan ceremonies start?

[La Enchiladita]

The jet carrying Ford in his casket just landed in Grand Rapids...