'I have not sought this enormous responsibility, but I will not shirk it'
Gerald Ford dies at 93(By Mark Feeney, Globe Staff)Gerald R. Ford Jr., the 38th president of the United States, whose earnest manner and manifest personal decency helped restore the confidence of a nation traumatized by the Watergate scandal, died Dec. 26.
Gerald R. Ford, 1913-2006Ford was a man of modest vision and plain habits, a natural conciliator whose talents were burnished by 25 years in Congress. |
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JEFF JACOBY: An award JFK would have liked (By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist, 5/24/01) Caroline Kennedy presented former President Gerald Ford with the 2001 Profile in Courage Award this week, saluting his ``controversial decision of conscience to pardon former President Nixon and end the national trauma of Watergate.'' In so doing, she said, he ``placed his love of country ahead of his own political future.''
SCOT LEHIGH: We now know: Ford had a better idea
(By Scot Lehigh, Globe Columnist, 5/23/01) SEPT. 8, 1974, WAS A DAY OF DISMAYING DESCENTS. A bomb exploded aboard TWA Flight 841, bound for Rome from Athens, sending the plane plunging into the Ionian Sea.
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COMMENTARY: A profile in courage
(By David Shribman, Globe Staff, 5/21/01)
(By David Shribman, Globe Staff, 5/21/01)
The pardon of the president was a fire bell in the night, awakening the nation from its September slumber, prompting disbelief and outrage. It led to the resignation of Gerald R. Ford's own press secretary, who wouldn't explain his boss's decision because he couldn't defend it. It launched 1,000 conspiracy theories, the perfect coda to perhaps the greatest political conspiracy ...
(By David Nyhan, Globe Staff, 8/13/99)
We make too much of Richard Nixon. And too little of Gerald Ford. In our politics, journalism, history, and pop culture, Nixon is celebrated, plumbed, defamed, psychoanalyzed, defended, found wanting, and periodically reinvented. This week's 25th anniversary of Nixon's being driven from office via the 1974 impeachment threat triggered the usual media landslide: grainy footage of the jowly hero-villain, eyebrows ...
(By Anne Gearan, Associated Press, 8/12/99)
Twenty-five years to the week after he was thrust into the presidency by Watergate, Gerald R. Ford returned to the White House yesterday to be praised as the steady hand that helped America heal.
Presidents and prayer
(By David Shribman, Globe Staff, 12/11/94)
(By David Shribman, Globe Staff, 12/11/94)
It happened, it turned out, on a Sunday. As President Bill Clinton and a high-level delegation of negotiators worked out an agreement on Haiti in mid- September, a White House speech writer began the lonely task of crafting a speech that the president would deliver on the subject to a nationwide television audience. Clinton liked the draft. But there was ...
(By Brian Tucker , Associated Press, 9/18/81)
A $7 million museum honoring Gerald Ford's presidency was dedicated before more than 250,000 people today, with President Ronald Reagan hailing Ford as the man who "healed America because he so thoroughly understood America."
