Former President Gerald Ford Dead at 93

Rancid Altoid was one of a large number of readers to tell us that "Former U.S. President Gerald Ford, who was swept into office after the Watergate scandal and later pardoned Richard Nixon, died at age 93, his widow said on Tuesday."

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The King is Dead, Long Live the King

[thermopile]

Interestingly, President Ford is the only person to have served as both Vice President and President, and been elected to neither position.

Obligatory wiki quote.

Minor typo

[SNR monkey]

Not to be a grammar nazi, but it should read "from the too-many-submissions-to-ignore dept"

Re:Cnn does it best

[Mr. Slippery]

It's interesting that the attempt against Regan that injured Brady gets so much notoriety but the two attempts against Ford are never talked about.

I know /. skews young, so it's possible you may not remember Reagan getting shot.

That's the thing: unlike Ford, he actually got shot, as did Brady and a Secret Service guy, Tim McCarthy. Missed killing Reagan by about an inch. We had to wait in suspense to see if he would survive or not. So, yeah, that stands out in people's memories. (I was 11 when it happened.)

Re:Cnn does it best

[WillyPete]

He was also aware in advance of the plan by Indonesia to massacre the East Timorese with U.S.-provided weaponry (~200,00 killed). Now, I'm not certain that we really needed to act militarily, but if the Indosesians wanted to kill a third East Timor's population I fail to see why we got to provide the weapons.

http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_co ntent&task=view&id=975&Itemid=135
http://redstateson.blogspot.com/2006/12/gaw-in-act ion.html