Oldest living US President. Rest In Peace.
A good article here
http://cbs4.com/topstories/topstories_story_227195601.html
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Just sat down to the computer for the first time all day and saw that he passed on. How cool to live to 93 and to leave a permenant, positive mark on history. God Bless Pres. Ford and his family.
For a man who only served 800+ days in the WH, he certainly made a huge, healing impact on our nation. God Bless the best athlete to serve as our president. RIP President Ford
I used to know a couple of guys who played football with him. They all thought very highly of him.
Completely in character was his quiet modesty and wry self-deprecation - “I’m a Ford, not a Lincoln.” Always under-promised and over-delivered. We can all learn from him.
Great op-ed memoriam to President Ford by Mel Laird in today’s Wall Street Journal. And a great - on-topic - quote from Ford:
“the greatest defeat of all would be to live without courage, for that would hardly be living at all.”
Speaks for itself.
And, of course, a great triathlete! 
Great op-ed memoriam to President Ford by Mel Laird in today’s Wall Street Journal. And a great - on-topic - quote from Ford:
“the greatest defeat of all would be to live without courage, for that would hardly be living at all.”
Speaks for itself.
From the same op-ed, I rather like his quote: “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
It’s remarkable that opponents at the time, along with their fatuous fellow travelers at Saturday Night Live, derided him as a klutz and a fool. He tolerated this with a grace that evinced his great character.
-jens
He was a fine President in a tumultuous time in U.S. history. History shall remember him as the great healer.
Doesn’t this belong in the LR?