Gerald Ford was the 38th president of the United States of America. He became president right after Richard Nixon resigned in 1974. This was not an expected time to have a new president. Ford said, “I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances … This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts (thewhitehouse.gov pg. 1).” While Ford had not planned to be a president, he still did great tasks, served 25 years in Congress, and he did his best.
Early Life
Gerald Ford was born on July 14, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska. His real name at that time was Leslie Lynch King, Jr. His mother’s name was Dorothy Ford. When Ford was an infant, his parents divorced. His mother then married Gerald R. Ford, Sr. After that, his name changed from Leslie Lynch King, Jr. to Gerald R. Ford, Jr.
When Gerald Ford grew up, he went to the University of Michigan and started playing football there. As soon as he started playing football, he became a star at it. He was one of the best football players at the college. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1935 and then went to Yale University in 1941. When Ford was in Yale, he earned a law degree and was known as a star gridiron – football player. During World War II, Ford joined the navy and served in the South Pacific. Then later in 1948, Ford met Betty Elizabeth Ann Bloomer Warren. This was the woman that Ford got married to. She later became known as; “Betty Ford” (britannica.org pg. 1). They had four children. Their names were Michael, John, Steven, and Susan.
Ford served 25 years in Congress, winning the role of House Minority Leader in 1965. He won because he was well-liked and ideologically flexible. This was Ford’s working position until 1973 when Richard Nixo...
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In August 1999, President Bill Clinton, awarded Gerald Ford, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Ford was 86 years old when he received the medal. He earned this medal because of his public service in binding the nation together after Richard Nixon’s Watergate Scandal.
Gerald Ford died on December 26, 2006 of cardiovascular disease. He lived to be 93 years old and is currently the oldest president ever to live.
CONCLUSION
Gerald Ford was not a well known president but he sure is famous for his clumsiness. He did everything he could to make America very wealthy and peaceful. He solved a lot of tasks. Comedians today make many jokes about Gerald Ford being clumsy. Some people even imitate him falling down. Ford was a very funny president. He made a lot of people laugh. Gerald Ford should be known much more around the world.
Ford’s political life began in 1917 when he announced his intention to seek election as a senator for the state of Michigan. Once his campaign began, the state’s majority appeared to favor Ford. This voter popularity was gained largely after Ford revealed his life story - the son of a simple farmer; he overcame many obstacles rising to the status of a multimillionaire business person and potential Michigan senator. Many voters also admired Ford for his engineering feats, his notably low costing automobiles, and the high salaries that he paid his employees. Running as a peace candidate and not claiming affiliation to a political party, Ford placed his name on both republican and democratic primary ballots. All of the democratic candidates withdrew from the primary race, securing the nomination for Henry Ford, while Truman H. Newberry would eventually win the republican nomination.
Despite the fact that Gerald Ford began his presidency as the first president not chosen by the American people, he started with high approval ratings. These ratings were rather short lived then spiraled downward when Gerald Ford on September 8, 1974, granted, Richard Nixon a full pardon for his offenses against the United States of America in the Watergate scandal. This shocking event caused many Americans to wonder if Gerald Ford himself had previously made this agreement to pardon Nixon from the beginning. Ford declared that his reason to grant the pardon as an attempt to put the scandals in the past and close the wounds, this decision only had the reverse affect.
Ronald Wilson Reagan served two terms as the 40th president of the United States of America. Reagan was known for having a strong faith in the goodness of people. In college he was known as, “the jack of all trades” for excelling in everything he did (“Life Before the Presidency”). President Reagan’s beliefs gave him lots of respect from citizens around the world. One of his main beliefs was that peace comes with strength. I believe that Ronald Reagan was a great president because of his leadership qualities, domestic policies, and foreign policies.
...t to aid the administration in finding the best fit for the new vice president. 2 days later, on October 12, 1973, the speaker of the house Carl Albert nominated Ford for the Vice Presidency. “Nixon looked to his senior congress for advice on the nominee but the decision had already been decided, it was Ford or bust.” Speaker of the House Carl Albert in the New York Times reported to the New York Times in November that the Senate voted Ford into office with the majority vote of 92 to 3 in favor of Ford. Followed by the December 6, vote by the House of Representatives in favor of Ford, 387 to 35. Ford took the Vice Presidential oath the same day. He was vice president from president, Ford was like a breath of fresh air to the public. He wanted to share any information he could on political subjects and how the county was moving forward with foreign affairs.
Born July 30, 1863 in Dearborn, Michigan, Henry Ford was the first child of William and Mary Ford. As a young man he became an excellent self-taught mechanic and machinist. At age 16 he left the farm and went to nearby Detroit, a city that was becoming an industrial giant. There he worked as an apprentice at a machine shop, while months later he would begin work with steam engines at the Detroit Dry Dock Co., where he first saw the internal combustion engine, the kind of engine he would later use to make his automobiles.
This article speaks to the long term impacts of the Progressive Movement and what it has become to today’s society. Roosevelt was a symbol for the Progressive Movement and although Howell does not specifically list Roosevelt’s successes, he does detail some of the major breakthroughs of the Progressive Movement.
In 1965 Ford ran for the state senate majority leader and won by a margin of 305 votes, and in his only term, Ford introduced twenty-two pieces of legislation that went on to become laws (Fampeople). Two years after his election to the state senate, he was elected Lt. Governor and became the state’s 49th governor in 1971. In 1974 Ford was elected to the U.S. senate and would be re-elected three times after that. Also as a senator, Ford was either the chairman or co-chairman of the inauguration committee from Reagan’s second term through both of Clinton’s terms (Wendell ).
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was loathed by some and yet loved by so many. Becoming one of the most beloved presidents in U.S. history for the four terms he was in office. His unusual charm and optimism that he communicated through the confidence of others is what people easily remembered him by. He often brought a confidence and a smile in to any room he entered and yet never underestimated his own responsibilities to specific situations that needed his undivided attention. Those actions alone helped sustained the nation through some of it’s darker times such as the Great Depression and World War II.
In 1933 FDR was elected President Of The United States. One unique thing about Roosevelt is that he was the only president to be elected 3 times. He ran against Herbert Hoover who was elected the 31st president 4 years before FDR’s term and,was running again for a second term. During FDR’s presidency he led the country through WWII and The Great Depression.
Ford directed more than two hundred movies throughout his career. Following in his brother’s foot steps; Ford produced, directed, and wrote many films. Throughout his career, which spanned nearly fifty years, he worked for such studios as Universal, Fox Film Corporation, RKO, United Artists, 20th Century Fox, Republic Pictures, and Warner Brothers. John Ford was born to Irish immigrants on February 1, 1894 or 1895, in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. His birth name was Sean Aloysius O’Fearna (Feeney). He changed his name when he began his career in the film industry. John’s brother, Frances Ford took him under his wing and showed him the ropes. He started out in Hollywood by doing stunt work, camera work, and film editing. In addition, Ford performed in such movies as Lucille Love, Girl of Mystery (1914), The Mysterious Rose (1914), The Broken Coin (1915), The Hidden City (1915), The Bandit’s Wager (1916), The Lumber Yard Gang (1916), and Chicken-Hearted Jim (1916). He even pl...
There are many factors to take into account when looking at Ford’s presidency. One of the biggest is how he came into office. After Spiro Agnew, the Vice President to Richard Nixon, resigned because of bribery and tax evasions, Gerald Ford was selected to be the new vice president to Nixon. Richard Nixon was involved in the Watergate Scandal which led to him resigning as well and placing Ford in the position of the Presid...
Gerald Rudolph Ford was born July 14th, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska. He grew up attending Grand Rapids public schools and then attended The University of Michigan until 1935 where he was an all-star athlete and had received several offers to play professional football. Ford declined these offers and instead attended the University of Yale to practice law until 1941. After graduating from law school he moved back to Grand Rapids to practice law for a bit, and then in April of 1942 Ford joined the U.S. Navy where he served for nearly 4 years during WWII and was discharged in January of 1946 with the rank of lieutenant commander.
Harrison Ford was born to the proud parents of Dorothy Nidelman and Christopher Ford on Wednesday, July 13, 1942. His birth came almost six months after their marriage on February 3, 1942. Days later, he was named Harrison Ford in honor of his maternal grandfather. Most of his young life, he preferred that people call him by his grandfathers name, Harry.
In 1974 history was made, as Gerald Ford became President of the United States. His presidency was so historic because he is the only president to take office without having been elected president or vice president. President Ford took the presidential office after Richard Nixon resigned, for fear of congressional impeachment in consequence to the Watergate Scandal. Based on the circumstances Gerald Ford had taken over in, a plummeting United States economy, citizens losing trust in their elected officials, and facing the impending collapse of an ally, President Ford actually accomplished a lot for the country. He took over in a time when congress was controlled by the Democrats, yet he was still able to get bills passed. Many people have
When Henry Ford was born on June 30th, 1863, neither him nor anyone for that matter, knew what an important role he would take in the future of mankind. Ford saw his first car when he was 12. He and his father where riding into Detroit at the time. At that moment, he knew what he wanted to do with his life: he wanted to make a difference in the automobile industry. Through out his life, he achieved this in an extraordinary way. That is why he will always be remembered in everyone’s heart. Whenever you drive down the road in your car, you can thank all of it to Henry Ford. Through his life he accomplished extraordinary achievements such as going from a poor farm boy to a wealthy inventor who helped Thomas Edison. When he was a young man, he figured out how to use simple inventions, such as the light bulb. He then taught himself the design of a steamboat engine. His goal was to build a horse-less carriage. He had come up with several designs and in 1896, he produced his first car, the Model A. When Ford’s first car came out, he had been interviewed by a reporter and when asked about the history of the car, he had said “History is more or less bunk.” Ford worked in Thomas Edison’s factory for years and the left to become an apprentice for a car-producer in Detroit. While working there, he established how he was going to make the car.