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Great Moments in Navy History
The USS Gerald R. Ford will be the first aircraft carrier ever built without urinals, the independent Navy Times reports in a story not yet on line. In a related...
Betty Ford, Former First Lady, Dies at 93
The wife of former president Gerald Ford passed away Friday evening surrounded by family members. Ford will be remembered as one of the most outspoken First...
Pelosi's Coming-Out Party
It just so happens that incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be launching her career as Democratic House leader the same week that the District hosted...
Different Strokes
After former President Gerald Ford suffered one or possibly two mild strokes while attending the Republican National Convention last week, his doctors quickly...
The Ford File and Its Surprises
Twenty-five years ago last Sunday night, there were thousands of people in Lafayette Park, eager witnesses to the final act of Richard Nixon's tortured...
The Spirit of '76
For Bob Teeter, the 1992 campaign is shaping up like a recurring nightmare. It was 16 years ago that Teeter, serving as Gerald Ford's campaign pollster, watched...
The Nation: Life with a Perfect Father
Since President Nixon nominated Gerald R. Ford to be Vice President, the Ford family has made two important decisions. One was not to move out of the...
Press: Stealing a Book Is Theft
A judge condemns the early exposure of the Ford memoirs Books by ex-Presidents have become a lucrative business. Each of the past four occupants of the White...
Pratfalls of the Presidency
It was almost enough to take one back to the days when Gerald Ford fell off a plane ramp and Americans began wondering about their President. Had he forgotten to...
Nation: Inside the Jerry Ford Drama
How the Republicans' dream ticket was bornand died The extraordinary hours in which the friends and agents of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan tried to fashion a...
Nation: Ford: Ready to Tee Off?
In the wake of New Hampshire, there is li little doubt that for mer President Gerald Ford is on the verge of deciding whether to plunge into the race for the...
Nation: An Ex-President Is Available
Ford's chances of running are remote, but the possibility exists He is not a candidate for President, and will not become one. Unless . . . well, says Gerald...
Nation: Ford's Memoirs
"The monkey off my back " He was a "terribly proud man" who detested weakness in other people and often spoke "disparagingly of those whom he felt to be soft...
THE NEW PRESIDENT: A MAN FOR THIS SEASON
"It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of...
DIPLOMACY: How the Allies Rate Ford
His first trip to Europe as President had clearly tired Gerald Ford. By the time Air Force One jet touched down in Rome last week, on the final stop of an...
REPUBLICANS: Ford Is Close, but Watch Those Trojan Horses
Fifteen new votes from Hawaii. Eight from New York. Five from Virginia. One each from Delaware, Illinois, Louisiana, South Carolina. Mississippi, clinging to a...
VICE PRESIDENCY: A Rush to Judgment on Gerald Ford
The hearings had originally been scheduled to be protracted affairsthe House's lasting until mid-December and the Senate's stretching on until early 1974...
Congress: Seeking a Coalition
One Republican with some firm ideas on how to make the G.O.P. more attractive to more voters is Michigan Congressman Gerald R. Ford. Writing in FORTUNE for...
THE ADMINISTRATION: President Ford's Far Eastern Road Show
The point of Gerald Ford's journey halfway round the world last week lay chiefly in its symbolism. He sought no major new agreements with leaders of Japan,...
THE ADMINISTRATION: Gerald Ford: Wrestling with Inflation
More than the pardon, more than amnesty, more even than the "healing" he likes to talk about, the wobbly U.S. economy has been Gerald Ford's driv ing concern as...
