1.0 link 37195 <![CDATA[Gerald Ford--A Man For His Time]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/russell-shaw/gerald-forda-man-for-his-_b_37195.html Back when I was in college, three of my buddies came to visit me in the hospital as I recovered from pneumonia.

One of them was Jack Ford. Jack's father was then House Minority Leader, Gerald Ford.

Ford came to our campus a few months ago and went out with a few of us for beers.

Then came the events of Watergate, Ford's accidental Presidency, and the regrettable pardoning of Nixon.

But despite Ford's mistakes, he was of a pro-environment, pro-choice stripe that we...

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