RIP President Gerald Ford

I mourn President Ford today.

He was a good and honorable man who was put into a horrible situation when President Nixon was forced to resign.When Ford gave Nixon the pardon I like many Americans at the time was outraged but as the years have passed I now believe it was something he had to do for the good of the country. A trial of Richard Nixon would have torn this country apart.

In 2001 the John F Kennedy Library honored President Ford with a "Profiles in Courage" award.

Ford wrote in his autobiography that Nixon's pardon “wasn't motivated primarily by sympathy for his plight or by concern over the state of his health. It was the state of the country’s health at home and around the world that worried me.”

It was the right thing to do.

They hated him in New York City but he may have saved the city from itself

When President Gerald Ford threatened to veto a federal bailout of New York City in October 1975, the now-famous Daily News front-page headline screamed:
"Ford to City: Drop Dead."