The thing that stands out in my mind about Gerald Ford is that he vetoed just about every damn high-spending, high-taxing bill that the Democrats could send his way. It didn’t take Jimmy Carter long to reverse that trend and, in the process, create the worst economy since the Great Depression.
That being that, the thing that will stand out now that President Ford has left us at the ripe old age of 93 is his genuine goodness as a human being. No pretense like Bill Clinton, no preaching like Carter, no prevarication like George Bush (and Clinton), Ford was a true example for our nation, probably the last president not to be subjected to constant cheap shots because his character stood above that (and it helped that he hadn’t been elected in a bitter campaign). We as a nation can only hope we can find another person of Gerald Ford’s character to occupy the White House and bring some peace to our nonstop cultural wars. The question is—is such cultural peace even possible anymore?
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