Rate Jerry Ford as President

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Poll question: Rate Jerry Ford as President

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1. Great. Now may he rest in peace.

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2. I agree may he rest in peace but why do you think he was "great"?

no arguement just wondering.

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12. Great for the following reasons.........

1.) He had been the first Vice President chosen under the terms of the Twenty-fifth Amendment and, in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, was succeeding the first President ever to resign.
2.) Ford was confronted with almost insuperable tasks. There were the challenges of mastering inflation, reviving a depressed economy, solving chronic energy shortages, and trying to ensure world peace.
3.) The President acted to curb the trend toward Government intervention and spending as a means of solving the problems of American society and the economy. In the long run, he believed, this shift would bring a better life for all Americans.
4.) As President, Ford tried to calm earlier controversies by granting former President Nixon a full pardon.
5.) Ford established his policies during his first year in office, despite opposition from a heavily Democratic Congress. His first goal was to curb inflation. Then, when recession became the Nation's most serious domestic problem, he shifted to measures aimed at stimulating the economy. But, still fearing inflation, Ford vetoed a number of non-military appropriations bills that would have further increased the already heavy budgetary deficit. During his first 14 months as President he vetoed 39 measures. His vetoes were usually sustained.
6.)Preventing a new war in the Middle East remained a major objective; by providing aid to both Israel and Egypt, the Ford Administration helped persuade the two countries to accept an interim truce agreement. Detente with the Soviet Union continued. President Ford and Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev set new limitations upon nuclear weapons.
7.) On Inauguration Day, President Carter began his speech: "For myself and for our Nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land."
8.)The Ford administration saw the withdrawal of American forces from the Vietnam War and the execution of the Helsinki Accords amid the Cold War.
9.)Ford was chosen for his integrity and trustworthiness; his peers in Congress put him in the White House because he told the truth and kept his word. He was nominated for Vice President after Spiro Agnew was forced to resign to avoid indictment for accepting bribes. Ford was confirmed by a House and Senate that expected him to replace a President who was also facing indictment for crimes.
10.)Ford was in the White House only 895 days, but changed it more than it changed him.

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9. dupe. posted to wrong reply.

[AndyA]

3. I think Ford defined his Presidency when he pardoned Nixon.

Had Nixon been held accountable for his acts, we might not have the mess we have today. Nixon was a criminal. So is Bush. People in their position should know better than an average American, which makes their crimes especially heinous. No leniency!

[AnneD]

4. ITA...

been thinking that same thought. He was nice enough, but we should have taken our medicine. It sure would have made future presidents think twice.

[Nikki Stone1]

5. At the time, he seemed below average. But in hindsight, compared to chimperella, he's a genius

So I'll go with above average, even with the Nixon pardon

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6. No kidding

the bar has been set so low now everyone is a genius except the chimpster.

[Nikki Stone1]

7. Sad, isn't it.

I'd say I don't know how we could get any lower, but there's always 2008.

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8. I never thought someone could almost make Reagan look smart

:D

[indepat]

10. Best Republican Prez by far since Eisenhower

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11. Other here

How can we rate something that is not supposed to be. He was culled from a congress made up of supplicants. He would do the bidding of the establishment instead of what the law read and the citizens desired. In effect he was not really elected by very many people and was more of a follower than a leader

We are kind stuck into the same thing here as it were in the 70's. We have a congress that was elected by a mandate to put the stops on the Iraq invasion / occupation but a congress too willing to acquiesce to an out of orbit presidency. This Ford guy was part of this, lest we forget. Them congress's continued to fund the Viet Nam conflict against the wishes of the people by the request of the president. This is the same thing we have today.

The accidental president is not much different from the substitute teacher

(snip)
You think we look pretty good together
You think my shoes are made of leather

But I'm a substitute for another guy
I look pretty tall but my heels are high
The simple things you see are all complicated
I look pretty young, but I'm just back-dated, yeah

Substitute your lies for fact
I can see right through your plastic mac
I look all white, but my dad was black
My fine looking suit is really made out of sack

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth
The north side of my town faced east, and the east was facing south
And now you dare to look me in the eye
Those crocodile tears are what you cry
It's a genuine problem, you won't try
To work it out at all you just pass it by, pass it by

Substitute me for him
Substitute my coke for gin
Substitute you for my mum
At least I'll get my washing done

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