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Re: ascan's age?
« Reply #30 on: February 25, 2007, 06:08:12 PM »
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Quote from: Litigious on February 25, 2007, 08:21:10 AM
I remember Jimmy Carter being President.

I remember Ford fallin..... I mean being president.

He fell while boarding a plane or something, didn't he? :laugh:
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Re: ascan's age?
« Reply #31 on: February 25, 2007, 06:09:36 PM »
Quote from: odeon on February 25, 2007, 06:08:12 PM
Quote from: Scrapheap on February 25, 2007, 05:36:21 PM
Quote from: Litigious on February 25, 2007, 08:21:10 AM
I remember Jimmy Carter being President.

I remember Ford fallin..... I mean being president.

He fell while boarding a plane or something, didn't he? :laugh:

yes.

i think he fell while going on stage for a debate as well.

but i don't remember that as a live memory, but something that i read or saw later.
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Re: ascan's age?
« Reply #32 on: February 25, 2007, 06:11:01 PM »
I remember watching it on the news. For some reason, it was a big issue.
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Re: ascan's age?
« Reply #33 on: February 25, 2007, 07:32:20 PM »
Quote from: odeon on February 25, 2007, 06:11:01 PM
I remember watching it on the news. For some reason, it was a big issue.
it is.

the perception is ineptness.
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Re: ascan's age?
« Reply #34 on: February 25, 2007, 09:51:05 PM »
Gerald Ford was the only President we ever had that was neither elected by the people to be President nor Vice-President.  I believe that he was selected by the Senate.
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Re: ascan's age?
« Reply #35 on: February 26, 2007, 01:32:39 AM »
Why was he selected by the Senate?
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Re: ascan's age?
« Reply #36 on: February 26, 2007, 10:18:30 AM »
Quote from: odeon on February 26, 2007, 01:32:39 AM
Why was he selected by the Senate?

Sorry, I was mistaken.  Gerald Ford was selected by the House of Representatives, not the Senate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford#Vice_Presidency.2C_1973.E2.80.9374

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Vice Presidency, 1973–74

On October 10, 1973, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned. According to The New York Times, "Nixon sought advice from senior Congressional leaders about a replacement. The advice was unanimous. 'We gave Nixon no choice but Ford,' House Speaker Carl Albert recalled later".
 
Ford was nominated to take Agnew's position on October 12, the first time the vice-presidential vacancy provision of the 25th Amendment had been implemented. The United States Senate voted 92 to 3 to confirm Ford on November 27, and on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35.
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Re: ascan's age?
« Reply #37 on: February 26, 2007, 10:33:42 AM »
Wasn't Ford extremely colorless or am I mistaken?
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Re: ascan's age?
« Reply #38 on: February 26, 2007, 10:43:39 AM »
I don't know about colorless, but try to find something of historical significance with his name on it.

There's a part of my mind is thinking "Panama Canal", but that is fuzzy right now. It could have been Carter. I'll research, to refresh my memory.

Who ever gave it away was a dunce!
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Re: ascan's age?
« Reply #39 on: February 26, 2007, 10:45:40 AM »
Quote from: DirtDawg on February 26, 2007, 10:43:39 AM

I don't know about colorless, but try to find something of historical significance with his name on it.

There's a part of my mind thinking "Panama Canal", but that is fuzzy right now. It could have been Carter. I'll research, to refresh my memory.

Who ever gave it away was a dunce!

I'm not 100% sure, but I think it was Carter. Sweden gave up all of Norway peacefully in 1905. It had been in a forced union with Sweden since 1814. Typically Swedish.  :(
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Re: ascan's age?
« Reply #40 on: February 26, 2007, 11:03:24 AM »
Gerald Ford did not get a lot of media attention, but he was actually a very decent human being, IMO.

He was perceived as clumsy because he tripped on a step and was filmed doing it, then Chevy Chase lampooned him on Saturday Night Live as being extremely clumsy.  Actually, he was captain of the football team in high school and he played football in college as well.  He was a gifted athlete.

He was criticized for granting a Presidential Pardon to Richard Nixon for his involvement in the Watergate cover-up after he resigned and that is probably a big part of the reason that Jimmy Carter won the next election.  Another part is that Gerald Ford was appointed to be the Vice President after Spiro Agnew resigned because of a tax evasion and bribery scandal, and when that was compounded by the Watergate scandal, I think voters just wanted a change for their next president, someone who was above even the appearance of evil.  Also, the economy was a great concern duing Ford's administration and those stupid Whip Inflation Now (WIN) pins did not do a lot to actually stop inflation.

He did do a couple of really good things while he was president, IMO.  He signed a law in 1975 guaranteeing full educational rights and opportunities for "Handicapped Children", and he was a strong supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Re: ascan's age?
« Reply #41 on: February 26, 2007, 11:14:25 AM »

Thank you.
I had forgotten about the Equal Rights involvement.

It's hard to imagine that they were still having to pass laws about that, at that late date, but I have been sheltered, I guess..
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Re: ascan's age?
« Reply #42 on: February 26, 2007, 11:20:29 AM »
The Equal Rights Amendment was never ratified.
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Re: ascan's age?
« Reply #43 on: February 26, 2007, 04:28:47 PM »
I never thought he was that bad but OTOH, I was 11 when he lost the election to Carter.
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