Word: gerald
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...Voters were unwilling to forgive Gerald Ford for his great act of forgiveness, the unconditional pardon of Richard Nixon. But there was another side to the pardon, the presidency and the 1976 campaign that received much less attention, in part because Ford wanted it that way. The contest between Ford and Jimmy Carter was a battle between two born-again Christians - but only one was willing...
...nation's political establishment, 3,244 strong, filed solemnly into the Washington National Cathedral for a service, as the program put it, "in celebration of and thanksgiving for" Gerald Rudolph Ford, President of the United States in the tumultuous post-Watergate years. Bob Michel, Al D'Amato, Paul Laxalt - the mourners, who now get together only for conventions and funerals, vividly evoked a very different time in American politics, and a very different Republican Party...
...Former President George H.W. Bush, who had challenged Ford in the Republican primaries of 1976, noted that Americans tend to "eschew notions of the indispensible man," but said Ford was a perfect match of man and moment. "Gerald Ford's decency was the ideal remedy for the deception of Watergate," the former President said. Several times he said: "Gerry Ford's word was always good...
...only an accidental President but a famously and endearingly accident-prone one as well. Fate evidently had elaborate designs on Gerald Rudolph Ford and fulfilled them on the world's stage in a dazzling combination of high pomp and low slapstick...
...There were a couple of unusual details along the way. He was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. in Omaha, Neb., in 1913. Two years later his parents divorced, and his mother moved with him back to her hometown, Grand Rapids, Mich., where she met and married a businessman named Gerald R. Ford. She changed her son's name to that of his stepfather, and he did not learn his true identity until he was, as he later recalled...