Former President Gerald R. Ford has died at the age of 93.Appointed to fill the vacancy after Spiro Agnew resigned as vice president in October 1973 and assuming the presidency after Nixon resigned the following August, Mr. Ford went from being a congressman from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to the White House in less than a year, and became the only man to serve as president without standing for election for either office.
After Nixon and before the politics of personal destruction and character assassination became the accepted practice, Jerry Ford was a calm, modest, and healing force after Watergate; something we really needed then -- and could use a dose of now. Personally, he was the last Republican candidate for president I ever considered voting for.
As Archie Bunker once said, "He did a pretty good job for a guy nobody voted for."
I hold him and his family in the Light.
