Ford was a much smarter and more perceptive man than he is normally given credit for. I think had he been elected in the normal fashion and not tainted with Nixon and Watergate, he might have had the opportunity to show himself a much better President.

"If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have." -- Gerald R. Ford, July 14 1913 - December 26, 2006