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Gerald
Ford - 38th President
Party: Republican
Term: Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977
Age at Inauguration: 61
Life Span: July 14, 1913
Spouse: Betty Bloomer Warren - Age
at Marriage: 35
Vice President: Nelson Rockefeller |
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- Appointed as vice president when Spiro
Agnew resigned in 1973, he succeeded to the presidency upon the
resignation of Richard Nixon in August 1974 Vice
President Gerald Ford
- Ford had two contact offers to play
professional football Football Presidents
- Ford is the only Eagle Scout to be
president
- Gerald Ford is the only person to
be vice president and president without having been elected to
either posititon
- One month after taking office he issued
a full pardon to former President Richard Nixon
- The move reeked of a conspiratorial
agreement by the two before he assumed the Oval Office
- Ford suffered the consequences when
he lost his bid for election in 1976
- Gerald Ford knew how to get rid of
guests who overstayed their welcome, or wrap up long boring meetings
in the Oval Office by training his dog, Liberty to enter at his
secret command and begin barking
- Mr. Ford suffered two assassination
attempts in the same month, September 1975, both at the hands
of women. Assassination Attempts
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