RIP, President Ford
Charles Johnson
Wed Dec 27, 2006 at 8:06 am PST • Views: 181
Former President Gerald Ford Dies at 93.
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) - Former President Gerald R. Ford, who declared “Our long national nightmare is over” as he replaced Richard Nixon but may have doomed his own chances of election by pardoning his disgraced predecessor, has died. He was 93.
The nation’s 38th president, and the only one neither elected to the office nor the vice presidency, died at his desert home at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday.
“His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country,” his wife, Betty, said in a statement.
Ford was the longest living former president, surpassing Ronald Reagan, who died in June 2004, by more than a month.
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