[SuperJon]

President Ford passed away last night.

Discuss.

[Sly Fox]

Didn't like him as a President. I remember the day Nixon resigned like it was yesterday. Not pleasant.

[PAmedic]

Was the first prez I really paid attention to.

subject of many SNL skits, always falling on his keister.

I respected him, then again we're right wingish 'round these parts and vote the big "R"

seemed like a pleasant guy in his old age.

[WinthropEagleFan]

Heck of a college football player too, or so I've heard...since I'm not old enough to remember him as a president, much less as a lineman at Michigan.

[mrmacphisto]

I could've sworn my news people said James Brown.

[4everfsu]

I like Ford as a president, he was better then the clown that followed him.

[ATrain]

Ford was well before my time, but it is sad to see him go. Regan was the first prez to die in my lifetime, I didn't think I'd be hearing about another one just 2 years later.

[WinthropEagleFan]

Ford was well before my time, but it is sad to see him go. Regan was the first prez to die in my lifetime, I didn't think I'd be hearing about another one just 2 years later.

Don't forget that Nixon died in 1994.

[bigsmooth]

President Ford was not the best president ever, but certainly not the worst. he did some good things while in office. my condolences to his family.

[PAmedic]

I'd like to point out that I was pretty young during his tenure- just a kid- but he was the first president that I was aware of, with a basic understanding of civics. Probably where my interest in that subject started, as well as the beginning stages of becoming the history buff I am today.

I also remember general panic ensuing when hearing "we" lost to a Democrat Jimmy Carter? President? whatever will happen to us?

[Sly Fox]

Ford was never elected to any office above his congressional district in Michigan. He was either the most fortunate politician in U.S. history or one of the more shrewd in a time of politcial disaster inside the Beltway.

And yes, anybody not named Rutherford B. Hayes was a better president than the peanut farmer from Georgia with the embarassingly drunk brother.

[ATrain]

Ford was well before my time, but it is sad to see him go. Regan was the first prez to die in my lifetime, I didn't think I'd be hearing about another one just 2 years later.

Don't forget that Nixon died in 1994.

Oops...well, Regan was the first to leave that I remember.

[PAmedic]

Ford was never elected to any office above his congressional district in Michigan. He was either the most fortunate politician in U.S. history or one of the more shrewd in a time of politcial disaster inside the Beltway.

And yes, anybody not named Rutherford B. Hayes was a better president than the peanut farmer from Georgia with the embarassingly drunk brother.

Millard Filmore

[Libertine]

And yes, anybody not named Rutherford B. Hayes was a better president than the peanut farmer from Georgia with the embarassingly drunk brother.

What's your beef with Hayes (not Purple)?

[Sly Fox]

Let's just say RBH left a less than impressive legacy in the White House. And neither did fellow Buckeye U.S. Grant ... but Grant did force the Southerners to abandon their slave-loving ways so he gets a free pass.