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The "accidental" president whose innate decency and steady hand restored the presidency after its greatest crisis
Times Books
February 2007
On Sale: February 6, 2007
Featuring: Gerald Ford
224 pages ISBN: 0805069097 EAN: 9780805069099 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
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previously unpublished documents (including a remarkable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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