1.0 link 37239 <![CDATA[Ford Retrospective]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-valeriani/ford-retrospective_b_37239.html If it hadn't been for Chevy Chase, Gerald Ford would have been elected President in his own right in 1976.

That's what I believe. I was an NBC News correspondent at the time, and I covered some of that campaign. And I believe it was Chase's portrayal of Ford on Saturday Night Live as a bumbling, fumbling clown that had as much to do with his defeat as anything else.

Sure, there was the pardon of Nixon. Despite the uproar,...

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