Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977.

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Dec 1, 2025 · Gerald Ford was the 38th president of the United States (1974–77), who, as the 40th vice president, had succeeded to the presidency on the resignation of President Richard Nixon, under the …

President Ford's memoir, A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford, was published in 1979. After leaving office, President Ford continued to actively participate in the political process and to …

Gerald R. Ford is sworn in as the thirty-eighth president of the United States by Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in the White House East Room, August 9, 1974.

President Ford and Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev set new limitations upon nuclear weapons. President Ford won the Republican nomination for the Presidency in 1976, but lost the election to his …

Jan 16, 2025 · Ford was the first vice president chosen under the Twenty-fifth Amendment. In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, he succeeded the first president to ever resign from the …

His latest subject is Gerald Ford, a 13-term Michigan congressman who was never elected to the presidency or vice presidency but fell into these jobs as a result of two unprecedented freaks of history.

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Dec 27, 2006 · Gerald Rudolph Ford, who died on Tuesday at the age of 93, may not have been the first American to have the presidency thrust upon him by act of man or god. But he was the first to …