The 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford, funeral service will be held today at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Ford took office in August, 1974.
Funeral services were held in the cathedral for former presidents Eisenhower in 1969 and Reagan in 2004, and ex-President Wilson is buried there.
Ford will be laid to rest in Grand Rapid, Michigan.
A Republican President who understood the country was being torn apart by the Vietnam war...unlike today unyielding republican President George Bush, Jr. with our troops in Iraq.
Former Secretary of the State, Henry Kissinger called Ford an humanitarian. in restoring dignity to the office of the United State presidency. "In his understated way he did his duty as a leader, not as a performer playing to the gallery," Kissinger said. "Gerald Ford had the virtues of small town America."
In 1976 Jimmy Carter defeated the accidental president with nearly 90% of the African-Americans votes.
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