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Former President Ford Dead At 93...

First Posted: 03/28/08 03:44 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 01:00 PM ET

Associated Press:

Former President Gerald R. Ford, who declared "Our long national nightmare is over" as he replaced Richard Nixon but may have doomed his own chances of election by pardoning his disgraced predecessor, has died. He was 93.

The nation's 38th president, and the only one neither elected to the office nor the vice presidency, died at his desert home at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday.

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