[BC] President Ford dies

[Robert Meuser]

He would be a centrist by today's standards.  There are few real 
conservatives left. Compared to today's neo conservatives he was almost 
a liberal.

R

Craig Bowman wrote:

> President Ford and Senator Dole lost by only a very very slim margin.  
> Many believe that had the election been held one week later they would 
> have won.  President Ford was far from a centrist, he was very 
> conservative having vetoed more than 40 spending bills with only 
> (approximately) 1/3 overturned despite the Democrat party having 
> overwhelming control of Congress.  He cut taxes which brought us out 
> of a recession and the DOW to nearly 1000 which was higher than the 
> entire Carter administration.
> Being from Congress he knew very well how to play the game.
>
> Craig Bowman
> Durand, MI
>
> John Buffaloe wrote:
>
>> I know you're kidding Doug, but I think this is one politician that 
>> everyone
>> held in the highest regard as a person.  He may have been a 
>> Republican by
>> choice of party, but he was also one of the last true centrists with an
>> interest in getting it right, not just winning his side.  I wish we had
>> given him a second (first?) term, but his pardon of Nixon, now 
>> believed to
>> be the correct thing to do for the country and a moment of extreme 
>> courage
>> on Ford's part, sunk his chances.  He went from a staggering 75% 
>> approval
>> rating to somewhere in the 30's literally overnight and never 
>> recovered.  I
>> met his daughter, Susan, when he was still vice, and she was as 
>> pleasant and
>> easy to be around as your best pal.  She hated the attention but 
>> suffered it
>> well.  She was also very proud of and attached to her dad.
>