What are Gerald Ford major accomplishments?

Answer 1

* Did not hesitate to send the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Marines to take back the American freighter Mayaguez, illegally seized by Cambodian Communists. * Wielded the power of the Presidential veto 55 times as a major weapon to battle inflation--saving American taxpayers over $9.2 billion in the process as Congress upheld 45 of the vetoes. Betty Ford voiced the sentiments of most Americans in a Parade Magazine interview published on August 15, 1976, when she said she wants her husband:

". . . to be our President for the next four years because he has leadership and honesty and courage. He's already proven himself . . . Why change our leadership when we have a President who's set the country on a good course, who's laid the groundwork for a healthy economy, who's maintaining the peace against formidable odds?"

President Ford's major accomplishments include: 1. Cutting inflation by more than half. * The inflation rate was going up at 12.2 percent a year when President Ford took office. * The inflation rate was down to 4.6 percent for the first half of 1976. 2. Nearly 4 million people have found jobs since the bottom of the recession. * At the recession low in March, 1975, a total of 84.1 million persons had jobs. * In July, 1976, employment had risen to a historic high of 87.9 million, an increase of 3.8 million from the March 1975 low. 3. Unemployment has decreased. * Unemployment reached a high rate of 8.9 percent in May, 1975. * In July, 1976, the unemployment rate was down to 7.8 percent, and the President's economic advisors believe that it will fall below 7 percent before year's end. 4. Key economic indicators are going up steadily. During the past year: * Housing starts have risen by 38 percent. * The Gross National Product has gone up about 10 percent. * Real per capita disposable income has gone up by nearly 5 percent. 5. Farmers are not doing well. * Net farm income reached $26 billion this year, a record high. * Farm exports also are at a record high of $22 billion. 6. Growth of crime has been cut by over 75 percent. * Crime was increasing at a rate of 18 percent a year when President Ford took office. * The rate of increase went down to 9 percent last year. * The growth rate was cut to 4 percent in the first quarter of this year. 7. Dangerous downward trends in defense spending have been reversed. * Congress cut proposed defense budgets by almost $50 billion in the 10 years before President Ford took office. * President Ford reversed that trend this year, persuading Congress to vote a major increase in defense spending. 8. Alliances with the Atlantic Community and Japan have never been stronger. * When President Ford took office, there was great turmoil and uncertainty in the world over the constancy of American will and leadership. * Now the industrialized democracies are carrying forward a program of cooperation in economics, energy, East-West diplomacy, anti-terrorism, arms control and in relations with developing nations. 9. For the first time in over a decade, the U.S. is at peace abroad. * The Nation was still deeply embroiled in Southeast Asia and tensions were high in the Middle East when President Ford took office. * Today, Mr. Ford is the first President since Dwight Eisenhower who can run for election to the Nation's highest office without a single American fighting overseas. 10. The Nation is at peace with itself. * The U.S. was rocked by scandal and inner doubts about its leaders and institutions when President Ford took office. * Today the strain of scandal has been erased from the White House, doubts have been replaced by growing trust and confidence, and the mood of the country has brightened perceptibly. ---- the answer was found at

http://www.ford.utexas.edu/LIBRARY/document/factbook/accompli.htm

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Answer 2

He Created spongebob.