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None of the four living ex-Presidents harbor any of these complaints. Not long ago Gerald Ford thought back over his short but tumultuous residence, remembering the high of becoming President and the low of losing to Jimmy Carter. Then he smiled and said about himself and his wife Betty, "We never got bored in the White House. It was a beautiful experience. We tried hard to stay...
...Fords once took Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip up to the private quarters before a state dinner. "We got on the elevator," recalled Ford. "It goes up, gets to the second floor, the door opens, and there is our son Jack standing with his shirt off, and he says, 'Oh, I'm trying to find my dress shirt and studs.' Betty apologized. The Queen said, 'Don't worry, we have one just like...
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Like quiz contestants nervously blurting out wrong answers, some incumbent Presidents have lost debates because of pressure-of-the-moment gaffes. Jerry Ford made his bizarre 1976 declaration that Poland was not a communist country and foolishly stuck to it for five days because he misremembered a briefing on the Helsinki Accords, which implied recognition of Soviet control of Eastern Europe. Did it really make substantive -- as opposed to political -- difference that in 1980 Jimmy Carter blurted out that he had been discussing arms control with his precocious 13-year-old daughter...
...Henry Ford...