I am gonna drive everyone crazy the next few weeks writing about Cooter’s U.S. History textbook, as we focus on recent history, the events that have shaped the last 40 years of our country and my life.
Cooter commented that Gerald Ford got only three paragraphs, out of the 1000-page text. He asked if I remembered anything about him. I had to laugh because the only thing I remembered was funny montages of his stumbling and fumbling his way from the helicopter on the lawn to the house. His eyebrows went up. “Really? You know he was a football player.”
Well, I think the skimpy coverage does say something about the guy who was the 38th president of our nation and who was NEVER elected as president NOR vice president. How is that possible? Nixon APPOINTED him when his vp Agnew resigned, and so Ford elevated when Nixon resigned.
What the quick treatment says is he did pretty much nothing (except immediately pardon Nixon), he basically kept the seat warm for Carter who was swept in during a very anti-Republican election. Ford barely beat out Ronald Reagan for the presidential party nomination in 1976. Then got stomped by the post-Nixon, anti-Republican sentiment. And so we ended up with Jimmy Carter…who was a very good man, but not as good of a president.
And for that reason alone, yes, Nixon, you were a crook.
I almost feel slimy posting a link to his trippings...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlz0he9rtKw
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