Gerald Ford

The first female candidate for vice president was Sarah Palin. She was the running mate of John McCain in 2008.

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme is 69 years old (birthdate: October 22, 1948).

The Charles Manson follower tried to shoot President Gerald Ford in 1975, and spent 33 years in prison.

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In Ford's case, he pardoned Nixon. That was very unpopular with a large part of the American people. In Jimmy Carter's case, he wound up looking weak and ineffective with the Iran Hostage situation.

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He ordered an airlift of about 300,000 Vietnamese refugees into the United States

its not necessarily good (for the native americans, anyway) but he did the whole trail of tears thing, pushed the indians out west, and allowed for more American settlement in the places the natives had vacated

In 1780, the abolitionist movement began in England, and carried over into the US. Members formed the Underground Railroad to help slaves who escaped captivity. Legislation was passed in 1850 to ban the slave trade within the United States.

In disgust of the northern states expansion of the federal government and their disregard for the Tenth Amendment (which gave states sovereignty from the federal government), the southern states decided to withdrawal from the union. In 1861 the Civil War began. After losing many battles and soldiers, Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation to Free the slaves in the southern states. This hurt the economics of the southern states; the free labor that was helping the south gain it's independence from the US was released and had to be compensated for their work.

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves to use economic warfare to prevent the southern states from winning their independence.

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No U. S. President has ever been directly elected by the people.

Pardoning Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford worked as a park ranger in the summer of 1936. He also worked as a male model. He went to Yale Law school, got his law degree and was admitted to the bar in 1941. He worked as a lawyer until the US entered the war and he joined the navy. Gerald Ford was a Lieutenant Commander in US Navy during WWII, 1942-1946; After the war, he became a member of the US House of Representatives for many years and became the House minority leader before being appointed Vice-President.

At birth, Gerald Ford's name was Leslie King.

Eisenhower laid the groundwork for U.S. involvement in Vietnam with the Eisenhower Doctrine, which proclaimed that, when it came to the Middle East, the U.S. would be "prepared to use armed force...[to counter] aggression from any country controlled by international communism." Eisenhower was also the first president to send economic and military aid to South Vietnam.

Kennedy followed in Eisenhower's footsteps by gradually increasing the amount of enonomic and military aid sent to South Vietnam. And it was Johnson who first sent large numbers of American ground troops to fight in Vietnam.

The White House staff does whatever the president assigns them. The Cabinet serves as an advisory body to the president.

No. There is no known relationship between these two men, In fact, Gerald Ford's real last name wasn't even Ford. He was adopted by his step-father, named Ford< after his mother re-married. His birth name was Leslie Lynch King, Jr and was legally changed to Ford when he was 13.

Gerald Ford's favorite breakfast food was English muffins, which according to news reports when he became president, he toasted every morning.

In 2000 there were 3,806,700 households in Michigan. The average household size was 2.55 people. The 2010 Census data for these statistics will be released sometime before April 1, 2011.

The major challenge that President Ford face involved former President Nixon. He had resigned in the midst of the Watergate scandal and President Ford pardoned him for any crimes he may have committed.

When he was born he studdered till he was 10 years old:( <3

Spiro Agnew in 1973. He was the second to resign.

Gerald Ford aka Leslie King Jr. He became the Vice President when Spiro Agnew had to resign as Vice President, owing to his involvement in the tea pot dome scandal. And later when Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 due to Watergate scandal, he became the President.

He was really into law and he loved politics.

How can you run for RE-election when you were never Elected, in the first place, for the office you are holding. You should be considered as running for Election not Re-election. Yet historical accounts always seem to indicate that Gerald Ford ran for Re-election not, in fact, for Election.