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Ford at his 90th birthday with Laura Bush, President George W. Bush, and Betty Ford in the White House State Dining Room in 2003 In April 1997, Ford joined President Bill Clinton , former president Bush, and Nancy Reagan in signing the "Summit Declaration of Commitment" in advocating for participation by private citizens in solving domestic ...
Gerald Ford, born July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska, his maternal grandfather was Illinois politician and businessman Levi Addison Gardner and his paternal grandfather was banker and businessman Charles Henry King, Ford's parents separated Just sixteen days after his birth and his mother took the infant Ford to Oak Park, Illinois, Ford later said his biological father had a history of beating ...
February 6 – President Ford signs Executive Order 11904 establishing the Defense Superior Service Medal, to be awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces (most often presented to senior officers in the flag and general officer grades, followed by a lesser number of Colonels and USN and USCG Captains) who perform "superior meritorious service in a position of significant ...
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 2, 1976. The Democratic ticket of Jimmy Carter, the former governor of Georgia, and his runningmate Walter Mondale, the senior senator from Minnesota, narrowly defeated the Republican ticket of Gerald Ford, the incumbent president, and his runningmate Bob Dole, the junior senator from Kansas.
Graph of Ford's approval ratings in Gallup polls Democrat Jimmy Carter defeated President Ford in the 1976 presidential election Outgoing President Gerald Ford and President-elect Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office on November 22, 1976. Ford made the first major decision of his campaign in mid-1975, when he selected Bo Callaway to run his campaign ...
Following the Watergate scandal and resignation of President Richard Nixon, Vice President Gerald Ford was elevated to the presidency on August 9, 1974.Because Ford had been appointed vice president by Nixon following the resignation of Spiro Agnew from the position, he became the only president to assume office without having been previously elected president or vice president by the ...
The ski house President Gerald Ford built in Vail, Colo., in the 1980s has been on and off the market since August 2008, just a year after its current owners bought the property from the Fords.
Wednesday, August 18, 1976, saw the uncommitted delegates break on the 1st ballot for President Gerald Ford, who won the nomination on the 1st roll call of delegates by a vote of 1,187-1,070. Richard Schweiker gambit and the search for an alternative