On 14 July 1913, Leslie Lynch King Jr was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He grew up as Gerald Ford of Michigan, which is how history knows him: the only man to serve as both Vice-President and President of the United States of America, without ever being elected to either office; no President served a shorter term than Ford and lived to tell the tale; no ( Read more... )

When we stayed in Washington in 2005, the table where we ate breakfast at our hotel was beside a tremendously vigorous picture of Betty Ford dancing on a table in the White House. I kid you not.

Anyway, it's a sad reason to revisit my various stats.

Longevity of women married to American Presidents and Vice-Presidents (top twelve, including the two ( Read more... )

In Write It When I'm Gone, DeFrank chronicles three decades of interviews with Gerald Ford, from his appointment as Vice-President in late 1973 to a final conversation in late 2006. For most of that time, Ford was old news; he ruled himself (with some bitterness) out of the presidential running fairly early in 1980 and settled down to being an ( Read more... )

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Today is 121 days after Gerald Ford's 93rd birthday. He has therefore outlived Ronald Reagan, who died on 5 June 2004 at the age of 93 years and 120 days. To pre-empt press coverage he issued this (largely unreported) press statement on Friday: "The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends. I thank God for the ( Read more... )

Yes, everyone, livejournal is back!!!!

And so I have three sets of interview questions, which I will answer as follows:

From loveandgarbage

1. Your LJ is always very interesting to read and you exhibit an eclectic range of interests. What has led you to have such a diverse range of interests; and do you feel that this range of interests led you to seek out your work ( Read more... )

Not me, but Gerald Ford after a few days in hospital, for the fourth time this year. Wishing him a speedy recovery...

14) 31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today, by Barry Werth ( Read more... )

Look at your LJ userpics list ( Read more... )

He's had a pacemaker fitted.