A Sea Of Red

President Ford passed away last night.

Discuss.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

ATrain wrote: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.

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.

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?

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.

WinthropEagleFan wrote:

ATrain wrote: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.

Sly Fox wrote: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

Sly Fox wrote: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)?

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.