[GR_Jr.]

“What got us Jimmy Carter was Ford’s pardon of Nixon not the fact that he won these two primaries.”

You got a point. But Reagan almost took that nomination in ‘76. And if Ford could manage to fall just short of defeating Carter, you got believe the Gipper would have beat Carter.

But what’s done is done. We got Regan 4 years later to clean up Carters mess.

(BTW: I was only 5 in 1976, but I remember that election. And I’ve read enough about since then)

[Mikey_1962]

But Reagan almost took that nomination in ‘76.

I remember the negotiations between Ford and Reagan about some sort of "Co-Presidency".

It was lunacy.

Ford was a good man but he let his loyalty to Nixon take him down.

I gave up on Nixon right after he took us off the gold standard.