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Two presidential children, John Quincy Adams and George W. Bush, have become president in their own right. John Scott Harrison is the only person to be both a child of a U.S. president and a parent of another U.S. president, being a son of William Henry Harrison and the father of Benjamin Harrison .
Steven Ford with his mother, Betty Ford, in 1976. Ford is the third child and youngest son of former President Gerald Ford and former First Lady Betty Ford.Ford graduated from T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia, on June 13, 1974, at which his father, then Vice President, gave the commencement address. [1]
Susan Elizabeth Ford Bales (born July 6, 1957) is an American author, photojournalist, and former chair of the board of the Betty Ford Center for alcohol and drug abuse. She is the only daughter of Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States, and his wife Betty Ford (née Bloomer).
Steve Ford, son of former president Gerald Ford, read aloud a eulogy his late father wrote about Carter. The two men had made a pact to speak at each other's funerals – an oath Carter himself ...
A woman vice president would have to be elected with the president in a general election, like Selina Meyer, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, in the HBO show Veep, but Ford hoped she would escape ...
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977.A member of the Republican Party, Ford assumed the presidency after the resignation of President Richard Nixon, under whom he had served as the 40th vice president from 1973 to 1974 following Spiro Agnew's resignation.
On September 5, 2006, Ford announced that he was stepping down as president and CEO, naming former Boeing senior executive Alan Mulally as his replacement. Ford continues as the company's executive chairman. [3] At the time of his stepping down, Ford was ranked 264th on Forbes' list of top-earning CEOs, at $10 million per year. [10] [11]
Upon Ford's death, President George W. Bush said in a written statement: . Laura and I are greatly saddened by the passing of former President Gerald R. Ford. President Ford was a great American who gave many years of dedicated service to our country.