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Gerald R. Ford - The 38th President, 1974-1977 (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Gerald R. Ford - The 38th President, 1974-1977 (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Series: American Presidents (Times)
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The "accidental" president whose innate decency and steady hand
restored the presidency after its greatest crisis When Gerald R.
Ford entered the White House in August 1974, he inherited a
presidency tarnished by the Watergate scandal, the economy was in a
recession, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close, and he had taken
office without having been elected. Most observers gave him little
chance of success, especially after he pardoned Richard Nixon just
a month into his presidency, an action that outraged many
Americans, but which Ford thought was necessary to move the nation
forward.
Many people today think of Ford as a man who stumbled a
lot--clumsy on his feet and in politics--but acclaimed historian
Douglas Brinkley shows him to be a man of independent thought and
conscience, who never allowed party loyalty to prevail over his
sense of right and wrong. As a young congressman, he stood up to
the isolationists in the Republican leadership, promoting a
vigorous role for America in the world. Later, as House minority
leader and as president, he challenged the right wing of his party,
refusing to bend to their vision of confrontation with the
Communist world. And after the fall of Saigon, Ford also overruled
his advisers by allowing Vietnamese refugees to enter the United
States, arguing that to do so was the humane thing to do.
Brinkley draws on exclusive interviews with Ford and on previously
unpublished documents (including a remarkable correspondence
between Ford and Nixon stretching over four decades), fashioning a
masterful reassessment of Gerald R. Ford's presidency and his
underappreciated legacy to the nation.
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