I did not know until his funeral that Gerald Ford was either an All-American National Champion football player or that he was a Phi Beta Kappa. I knew that he had been a good athlete, but not a great athlete. Nor did I know until watching early Sat. Night Live shows that the mocking of him was cone every week.
The MSM had complete power back then. The difference now is that they have given up even the pretense of lack of bias.