President Ford - R.I.P.
Published Wed, Dec 27 2006 1:28 AM
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The 38th President of the United States is dead.
Texas Fred has breaking details.
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President Ford served a short term. He was appointed to the Vice Presidency under the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution when Spiro Agnew resigned. He became the United States' only unelected President when Richard Nixon resigned.
He would have been an infinitely better man to serve another term as president than his successor, Jimmy Carter. Sadly it was not to be.
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Stander's Point trackbacked with "R.I.P. -- Gerald Ford: 1913 - 2006"
Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States of America, has passed away at the age of 93.
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