A Ford, Not a Lincoln By James P. Estrada January 18, 2007 The passing of President Ford has led to the seemly unavoidable melancholy look back to his presidency with an inevitable comparison to presidencies past and present. Ford himself once said that he was “a Ford and not a Lincoln”, and so we got a Ford and not a Lincoln Presidency out of this man. There are those that would say Ford was a great president and cite reasons from his unifying the country after Nixon to his seamless handling of the Mayaguez incident, where US Marines boarded and...
