President Gerald Ford RIP
AP: Former President Gerald Ford dies at 93
Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon’s scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America’s history, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday. He was 93.
“My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age,” Mrs. Ford said in a brief statement issued from her husband’s office in Rancho Mirage. “His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country.”
The statement did not say where Ford died or list a cause of death. Ford had battled pneumonia in January 2006 and underwent two heart treatments — including an angioplasty — in August at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
He was the longest living president, followed by Ronald Reagan, who also died at 93. Ford had been living at his desert home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., about 130 miles east of Los Angeles.
Flap remembers President Ford when he traveled to USC during the campaign of 1976. Ford barely beat Ronald Reagan at the August GOP convention and then lost to Jimmy Carter.
Flap always wondered what America would have been like had Ford NOT pardoned Richard Nixon and the GOP held the White House in 1976.
Gerald Ford Rest in Peace……..
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