That is GREAT news.
People made fun of GRF -- and I suspect he brought it on a bit to be a lightning rod. A decent man who was, despite the fun poked at him, an athlete and a great American. He had to serve perhaps the most difficult role of any President ever, and did so with class, dignity and wisdom.
As usual, people underestimate what is "greatness." In a few years he restored dignity to the White House and spent all his years with that class and dignity.
And he also showed America that he could take a joke -- and even throw it.
Most people in the USA don't to this day know how important he was and how he rose to the occasion and the call of his country.
Granted, GRF had the courage of his convictions when he determined that pardoning Richard Nixon was the appropriate thing to do. The nation was reeling from Watergate and still, despite GRF's efforts, suffers its aftereffects in the form of skeptical and cynical voters mistrusting the government.
What irked me, though, beyond redemption, was Ford's insistence that a clemency program be initiated for draft dodgers and other punks.
Of course, Jimmah C. was the ultimate scumbag in this area when he signed a presidential pardon the day after he took office for said draft dodgers.
I wouldn't characterize GRF's presidency as "great" by any means. At best, he might be seen as having been "necessary."
Gerald Ford's Justification
