Posted on 01/02/2007 5:41:07 AM PST by 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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Believe me, I'm thinking it!
16 days!
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My first vote was also against Ford and for Carter. I was young, dumb(er), and believed the BS Carter was peddling. Then I started working for a living, paying taxes, and I realized that the old Democrats were replaced by America haters.
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True, I'm grateful that he didn't completely embarass his invitation to speak, by bashing President Bush.
Unlike at the King funeral, President Bush isn't there today. ;)
I bet that kept him awake at night--trying to figure out a way.
He is a small man that seems to need big men to prop him up. Hence his 'best friend in history' routine.
The very thing that Jimmy has done to his successors. Perhaps that was what President Ford was hoping to have happen by this gesture. I don't think that Carter is smart enough, or humble enough to understand it. Particularly as evidenced by the words he delivered.
Well, a weak eulogy was followed by a strong one. I think Richard Norton Smith did a terrific job.
Benjamin Harrison, I think. Caroline Harrison died just as they were moving out of the White House. He remarried and had another daughter who was four years old when he died.
Thanks, but it was "since the Civil War", where someone else tripped up. The answer is Hoover.
Sorry, now I slipped up. I got my Harrisons mixed! :)
I bet Carter is already figuring ways he can dine out on that "best friend of Jerry Ford" story for the next five years.
Well, Hoover also outlived his wife, I'd forgotten. Hoover lived into his 90s, I think. Benjamin Harrison served as President after the Civil War, though he was born prior to it (he served in the Civil War). So I guess it depends on how you define "since the Civil War." I think. Now I have to verify this myself....
Benjamin Harrison did outlive his wife. So I guess the error was in the wording of the question. Or you could say the three are Nixon, Hoover, and Harrison. Wilson outlived his first wife, but not his second.
Given newspaper research, you're probably right - I shouldn't have thought of Wilson at all, most likely.
The grandchildren are getting to participate now; I think that's wonderful.
Reciting prayers -- including the older great-grandson and granddaughter who called him "Gramps".
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