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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The Return of Squeaky Fromme: Attempted Presidential Assassin and top Charles Manson lieutenant leaves prison...

By Jack Brummet
All This Is That Law and Justice Editor

This is kind of a mindf***er! Who'd have ever though Lynnette "Squeaky" Fromme would see the light of day again? I remember the day she tried to shoot President Ford. The only thing that stopped her from killing him was a secret service agent who somehow managed to jam his thumb in front of the the hammer of the gun. And I might add, we came one thumb away from President Nelson Rockefeller. And now she is out. She had earlier turned down parole, but took one this time around.


Gerald Ford with Bill Clinton

Fromme was Charlie Manson's head honcho when he sent his followers on a two-day killing spree in 1969, in which eight people were killed, including actress Sharon Tate (and her unborn baby). The killings were allegedly done to trigger a race war. Fromme did not actually participate in the murders 40 years ago in Los Angeles. She avoided prison and was able to take a shot at Gerald Ford a few years later.



Manson and five others did go to prison for life. But then, Squeaky was also to sent to prison for life. Charles Manson is in the California State Prison at Corcoran and will again be eligible for three years from now. Charles is now 74 and Squeaky is 60.
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