Tuesday, January 11, 2011

My favorite photographs of President Gerald R. Ford (with Cheney, George Harrison, Brezhnev, Garagiola, and other Presidents)

 By Jack Brummet
Presidential History Editor

I always liked Gerald Ford, despite the Nixon pardon, and the fact that he wasn't a great president in his 22 months there.  On the other hand, what he did have going for him was a warm disposition, and the fact that he was not Richard Nixon.  Here are some of my favorite photos of him, mostly from his Presidency. . .

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also one of my favorite Clinton photos


Watching returns with pal Joe Garagiola the night he was defeated for election (not re-!)

Ford with Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney

with Billy Preston, George Harrison, and Ravi Shankar

With Speaker of the House Tip O'Neil

Secret Service running Pres. Ford from the attempted assassination in SF, 1975

With Vice President Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger

With a few other Presidents

With Leonid Brezhnev

Announcing his pardon of President Nixon

Playing football at the University of Michigan

in the Oval Office with his dog Liberty
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