Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gerald Ford comes home again to open a museum in his honor...
When he was the nation's 38th President, Gerald Rudolph Ford acquired an unwanted, and perhaps undeserved, reputation for stumbling, bumbling and bumping his head upon leaving presidential aircraft. So it was entirely fitting that, stepping off Air Force One to greet Ford in his home town of Grand Rapids, the 40th President collided with the 38th and almost stumbled down the top step. Once on the right foot, the ceremonial opening of the Ford museum last week was a fitting tribute to the man who helped rescue the honor of the American presidency from the ignominy of Watergate...
...their respects: President José Lopez Portillo of Mexico, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau of Canada, former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing of France, Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda of Japan, and even the emperor of Hollywood, Bob Hope. There were fireworks and fishing contests, viewings of the Gerald Ford stamp collection, and a $1,000-a-plate dinner of chicken breast complemented by Michigan wine (Tabor Hill Winery's Vidal Semi-Blanc...
...Labour Party, and a man whose wealth of experience--newspaper editor, literary scholar, political columnist, book critic, and the most respected orator in Britain--he should make the United States thoroughly embarrassed at the previous occupations of her last three presidents: acting, peanut farming, and modeling (yes, Gerald Ford was a fashion model back in the 1930s...
...executive vice president of the Ford Foundation's international division, Bell administered an annual budget of more than $40 million in development grants. Bell has also served as the director of the United States Agency for International Development and of the Bureau of the Budget during the Kennedy administration...