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In reply to the discussion: Do you know who's utimately responsible for our current situation? [View all]Botany
(74,873 posts)Ford worked his way through the University of Michigan and with a football scholarship too.
His teams won 2 national championships and he was an All American too. He turned down
a chance to play in the NFL and went to Yale Law School after Pearl Harbor he joined the US
Navy and left the service as a Lt. Commander.
Although I disagreed with him pardoning Nixon and I have no doubt that some kind of
deal was in place for Nixon Ford has publicly said that when he became President Water-
gate and Nixon were taking up 70% of his time so he pardoned him. Nixon never said
thank you to President Ford in private or publicly.
This is a true Gerry Ford story. When in the White House his dog took a crap on the
carpet in the Oval Office and a bunch of staff jumped up to clean up the mess but Ford
stopped them and did it himself and said, "I expect no man to do that for me."
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