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Fri Nov-10-06 04:18 PM
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Ford set to become oldest President |
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Gerald R. Ford is closing in on a record held by Ronald Reagan - living longer than any other U.S. president. Ford, who turned 93 on July 14, will become the oldest president Sunday by living to 93 years and 121 days. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061110/D8LA9A180.html
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THUNDER HANDS
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Fri Nov-10-06 04:19 PM
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I wonder who the oldest was before Reagan?
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Fri Nov-10-06 04:24 PM
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3. John Adams born - October 30, 1735 died - July 4, 1826 |
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Fri Nov-10-06 04:28 PM
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5. Interesting fact about that, BTW... |
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Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within hours of each other on July 4, 1826--the 50th anniversary of American independence. Just before he died, Jefferson said, "Adams still lives." He was right, but not for long.
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Fri Nov-10-06 04:44 PM
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10. I do believe it was the other way |
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Adams said "Jefferson still lives," though Jefferson had dies hours earlier. Also they had both been invited to a celebration in DC but both declined
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Sat Nov-11-06 12:01 PM
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19. I do believe you're right. |
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Should have checked in Adams' biography, but I was feeling lazy. It's an extraordinary story either way.
Thanx! :hi:
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Sun Nov-12-06 05:22 AM
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30. much more impressive, lving that long back then |
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Fri Nov-10-06 04:43 PM
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9. And he still has his mind. Reagan was pretty well gone by |
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late 1995. I remember how Bob Dole pretended to be getting advice from him over the phone in 1996, after The Gipper's daughter had written months before that she thought her father no longer knew who she was.
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Fri Nov-10-06 04:50 PM
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14. st ronnie's mind was taking vacations |
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before he left office. I remember watching him speak @ some event and in mid sentence he stopped, then started talking about some old movie.
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Fri Nov-10-06 10:04 PM
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18. Reagan was gone in 1981 |
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Reagan was out there enough in 1981 that after a few doozies, he started having WAY fewer press conferences.
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Fri Nov-10-06 04:21 PM
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Too bad John Kennedy isn't the one living onto old age instead of one of the conspirators who helped off him and cover up the crime.
Congradulations, Mr. Un-elected former POTUS.
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Fri Nov-10-06 04:42 PM
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8. Ford would still be older than JFK |
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Ford was born in 1913, JFK in 1917
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Fri Nov-10-06 04:44 PM
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11. But if JFK had lived, it is highly unlikely Ford would ever have been president. |
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Fri Nov-10-06 04:46 PM
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JFK would have served to '68, and then Nixon could have been after. Granted Vietnam wouldn't have been the Vietnam we know it as, it oculd stil have happened.
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Sun Nov-12-06 09:58 AM
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32. What if RFK hadn't been killed either? |
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JFK to 68. RFK till 76.
Then who knows...Carter...Reagan in 80.
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Fri Nov-10-06 05:03 PM
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15. I said, "Living into old age" rcognizing that fact... |
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...thanks for sharing anyway.
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Sat Nov-11-06 12:30 PM
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21. Gerald Ford was a conspirator? |
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What are you talking about?
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Sat Nov-11-06 02:19 PM
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22. Ford was J Edgar Hoover's plant on the Warren Commission |
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Ford was a long time operative for Hoover
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Sat Nov-11-06 07:37 PM
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24. He had his share of health problems |
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I'm not sure if he would outlive Ford or Reagan, but I could see him living to be in his 70's, and maybe 80's, since wasn't something invented a few years after his assassination that made Addison's Disease more bearable?
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Sun Nov-12-06 10:00 AM
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33. What kind of world would we live in |
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If JFK hadn't been shot, and still was alive at 89 years old, an elder stateman of the Democratic Party. His younger brother RFK, also having been president for 8 years from 1968 through 1976, by his side at the opening of the Clinton library with Jimmy Carter next to them.
What kind of world would that be?
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Fri Nov-10-06 04:25 PM
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He can replace Chimpy until 2009.
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Fri Nov-10-06 04:29 PM
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6. Anytime anyone beats Reagan at anything it's good. |
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Edited on Fri Nov-10-06 04:29 PM by newscott
Unless your name is Bush.
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Fri Nov-10-06 04:35 PM
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7. That's the best news I've heard about a Repub all week! |
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Fri Nov-10-06 04:46 PM
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12. Look out for Grover Norquist, Jerry |
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Norquist heads up the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, and you can bet that in his demented little brain, Ford's longevity is a direct affront to the Gipper. Hang in there until Sunday, Jerry, but keep alert.
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Fri Nov-10-06 05:09 PM
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16. He'll beat Reagan? Me likey! -nt |
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Fri Nov-10-06 09:50 PM
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He may have been a klutz, but he was one of the better Republican Presidents...IIRC, he even nominated a liberal to the Supreme Court. *Gasp!* :D
Breaking Reagan's record will be icing on the cake--YEAH!
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Sat Nov-11-06 12:11 PM
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20. Hope he stays out of wolf-infested woods until then. |
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Sat Nov-11-06 07:27 PM
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I want him to beat Raygun in at least one thing since it was Raygun that screwed Ford when he ran for Prez in 76.
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Sat Nov-11-06 09:57 PM
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25. Wait 'til he sees what Bush took out of his social security savings! |
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Sat Nov-11-06 11:07 PM
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26. I hope Bill Clinton makes it to 100 |
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That would really drive Republicans nuts.
He would probably still be smarter than a roomful of right-wingers too.
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Sun Nov-12-06 01:26 AM
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27. Happy birthday, Gerry... |
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Sun Nov-12-06 03:43 AM
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28. Congratulations to President Ford |
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Ford was the kind of president one could disagree with on everything he said or did, and yet one will feel no animosity toward the man.
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Sun Nov-12-06 02:01 PM
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34. Exactly....and he would have told guys like |
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Rove to shove it. I truly believe that anyone with the ethics and morals of the Rove's and Delay's of this world, would never have stepped foot in Mr. Ford's Oval Office. He is a class act, as is his wife.
Of course today the repugs have the ethics and morals of Kenny Boy, Abramoff, Delay, and Rove, so Gerry would truly be an outcast in his own party.
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Mon Nov-13-06 12:12 AM
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36. Rummy was Ford's Sec'y of Defense |
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Yep... Rummy has held the job twice. And Dick Cheney was Ford's White House Chief of Staff.
I think admiration of Ford is misplaced. He helped a lot of today's toxic neocons get their start.
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Sun Nov-12-06 04:04 AM
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Ford would've been too conservative for me; but he was much better than current Republicans!
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Sun Nov-12-06 09:47 AM
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31. Years before he became pres, he was a speaker at an ethnic |
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convention I attended. He spoke and he spoke and he spoke until people started falling asleep, leaving their seats, turning out the lights, etc. And still he spoke. I remember thinking, he seems like a nice man, but he is sooooo boring. Of ocurse I was a teenager then, so all politicians were boring.
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Mon Nov-13-06 12:03 AM
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35. I guess if you're a brain-dead Republican... |
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You live longer as ex-president. Like LBJ said, "Jerry Ford played too much football without his helmet."
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