Gerald Ford

The Race in Michigan's Third -- Gerald Ford's Old District

Peter D. Rosenstein | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Equal Rights Amendment, Trevor Thomas, Gerald Ford, Steve Pestka, Governor Grenholm, Justin Amash, Republican Party, Tea Party, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Politics News

Considering what is happening to the Republican party today, Gerald Ford couldn't win a primary in his old congressional district.

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A Blatant Cover-up of Corrupt Practices at the Federal Reserve by Its "Independent" Inspector General

Robert Auerbach | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Mark Bialek, Wright Patman, Bob Woodward, J.L Robertson, Bill Proxmire, Saddam Hussein, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ron Paul, Barney Frank, Girard Bank, Arthur Burns, Ben Bernanke, Henry Reuss, The Washington Post, Business News

Chairman Burns' stonewalling to keep the Fed from being caught in the Watergate scandal was extreme undue political interference. Inspector General Mark Bialek's report bypasses this information that was made available to him.

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Gerald Ford Graffiti Pops Up In Michigan Hometown

AP | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Grand Rapids, Gerald Ford, Video, Former Presidents, West Michigan City, Street Art, Graffiti, Michigan, I-196, Arts News

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Former President Gerald Ford is remembered in his hometown of Grand Rapids by a museum and a stretch of interstate. Now, a graf...

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Both Sides: Is Scalia a Pol in Robes? What If Races Reversed in Shooting?

HuffPost Radio | Posted 04.02.2012

Matalin and Kuby clash over health and race. If five Republican justices again rule along party lines, who are the judicial activists? What about Fox's complaint about a rush-to-judgment in Trayvon -- i.e., the Sherrod-Wright cable network? Then: Gaffe-Gate!

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4 Kinds of Republicans

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Abortion, Jack Kemp, Gerald Ford, Rascism, William F. Buckley, Olympia Snowe, Birther, Contraception, Anti-Woman, Republican Party, Politics News

The Republican Party elite is depending on uneducated aging frightened white males and radical anti-abortion females for their votes. Long term the party is doomed.

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A Republican Presidential Candidate Reaches Out to Hispanic Voters

Fred Karger | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Statehood, Gerald Ford, George Deukmejian, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Hola Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Primary, Fred Karger, Republican Party, Politics News

The Hispanic Community and the Republican Party have much in common. We should work very hard to emphasize all our shared beliefs and work together to defeat President Obama.

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THE UNPERSUADED: Who Still Listens To A President?

newyorker.com | Ezra Klein | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Politics, Politics News, Ronald Reagan, President of the Untied States, Voters, Presidential Speeches, Gerald Ford, Barack Obama, Politics News

Richard Neustadt, who died in 2003, was the most influential scholar of the American Presidency. He was a founder of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Gov...

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Time to Clip the Right Wing's Wings

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 05.06.2012

In 8th grade, I was an odd kid from Chester, PA. I listened to news (KYW) and talk radio (WCAU) as much as country music (WEEZ) and rock (WFIL and WI...

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Millenials and the Culture of Compliance

Matt Durham | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Political Crimes, Political Scandal, Watergate, Millenials, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Dick Cheney in My Time, Dick Cheney, Politics News

A dangerous moral vacuum exists among our nation's leaders. They know certain things they can always get away with, and certain things they cannot. Indefinite detention? Fine. Infidelity? Your head on a platter.

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Beware the Brokered Convention!

Ken Blackwell | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Political History, Brokered Convention, Presidential History, 2012 Election, Ronald Reagan, Elections 2012, Republican Presidential Candidates, 2012 Republican Primary, Republican Convention, Politico, Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Bv-Politics, Politics News

If we think the products of past brokered conventions were good for America, good for good for the conservative cause, or even good for the Republican Party, we should think again. A brokered convention could only leave us all, well, broker.

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I'm Voting Against the Other Guy

Bob Banov and Roger Ohlsen | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Polls, Responsibility, Candidates and Choice, Maturity, Super PACs, Compromise, Making a Difference, Lawrence O'Donnell, Political Ideologues, Andy Newman, Influence Peddlers, Career Politicians, Political Propaganda, Voting, Public-Apathy, Gerald Ford, Newsweek, Politics News

If maturity and compromise are essential to a democracy as we were taught in school, then as the old Chinese Proverb has it, "If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed."

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Why I'll Be Watching Yet Another Republican Debate Tonight

Andy Ostroy | Posted 03.27.2012

What I'm waiting for is that delicious moment all politicians dread. The moment in a debate where a candidate suffers from humiliating foot-in-mouth disease, in some cases blowing the campaign.

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Accomplishments of Recent Presidents Worth Remembering

Byron Williams | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: George Bush, Bill Clinton, History, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Presidential History, Gerald Ford, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Presidents, Politics News

From Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush, each commander-in-chief has made lasting accomplishments that warrant our collective praise.

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The U. S. Government's Largest Means-Tested Anti-Poverty Program Has Severe Problems

Robert Auerbach | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Milton Friedman, Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Douglas Schulman, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, John Kennedy, Nina Olson, University of California Los Angeles (U.C.L.A., Beverly Hills, George Mcgovern, Lyndon Johnson, Watts), Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Barack Obama, Politics News

During these dire times for millions of people, many of whom have been unemployed for long periods, the nation's safety net is mangled and inefficient.

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Somalia: Henry Kissinger and Me, Circa 1980

Richard Walden | Posted 10.08.2011

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At the time of Ronald Reagan's election, Somalia was sagely thought by Henry Kissinger to be ready for a tour de force, however off our collective radar screen it was at that time.

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Remembering Betty Ford

Palm Desert, CA Patch | Posted 09.11.2011

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At the heart of a memorial service honoring former first lady Betty Ford sits a vibrant Palm Desert church, where past presidents and first ladies wil...

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Bold Betty: Recounting The Former First Lady's Lasting Impact

Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Betty Ford Center, Betty Ford Clinic, Activism, Betty Ford Funeral, Betty Ford Memorial, Gerald Ford, Betty Ford Health, Betty Ford, Advocacy, Betty Ford Quotes, Betty Ford Breast Cancer, Impact News

Betty Ford will be remembered for the waves she created and the change she enacted as a pioneer in women's rights and health care. The former Repub...

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For Her Own Funeral, Betty Ford Requested Political Eulogy

AP | LINDA DEUTSCH | Posted 09.10.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Former first lady Betty Ford, always known for her take charge attitude, chose the people who will eulogize her and the subjects t...

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Former First Lady Betty Ford Dies At 93

AP | CONNIE CASS and LINDA DEUTSCH | Posted 09.07.2011

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Betty Ford said things that first ladies just don't say, even today. And 1970s America loved her for it. According to Mrs. Ford...

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Did We Save Bin Laden From a "Fate Worse Than Death"?

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Saddam Hussein, Gerald Ford, Ron Paul, Assassination, Michael Moore, Frank Church, Bin Laden, Castro, President Carter, President Reagan, Al Quada, Politics News

It would have been better and wiser for us and the world -- and worse for al Qaeda -- if we hadn't summarily assassinated Osama bin Laden.

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Educating for Democracy: Are Politicians 'Dumbing Us Down?'

Joel Shatzky | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Senator John Kerry, Standardized Testing, Gerald Ford, Albert Einstein, Sarah Palin, Education News

The recent flak over Sarah Palin's grossly inaccurate recollection about "Paul Revere's Ride" makes me wonder if one of the future qualifications for the Presidency will be the candidate's "Ignorance Quotient."

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Donald Rumsfeld: Obama Made The Right Decision On Bin Laden Raid

AP | ANGELA K. BROWN | Posted 07.20.2011

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FORT WORTH, Texas — The Bush administration would have used the same strategy to kill terrorist Osama bin Laden had those circumstances arisen y...

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Gerald Ford Wins His Place in History

Al Eisele | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, George Washington, John Boehner, Gerald Ford, Politics News

The unassuming former House Republican leader from Michigan joined the pantheon of America's greatest presidents on Tuesday when his statue was unveiled in an elaborate ceremony in the U.S. Capitol amid effusive bipartisan praise.

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Michelle Obama Makes First Lady History... and What Was She Wearing?

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was a gray dress. Enough said. Credit/Getty Images More vital to the long-term interests of the nation than the clothes she wore one particular...

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Ranking the Presidents Since WWII

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Dwight Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, Global Leadership, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Presidents Day 2011, Lyndon Johnson, American Caesars, Harry S Truman, Politics News

If, on Presidents Day 2011, I had to rank the last twelve presidents since America became the world's most powerful empire in World War II, I'd put them in the following order.

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