GERALD FORD

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GERALD FORD

Before presidency
In 1948, Ford was elected to congress to Democrats swept the Republicans out of office in almost every election in the country. He came to Washington dedicated to the idea that Americans must retain its positive of word leadership.
He is office-house was Representative from Mass. John F. Kennedy. At the other side was the office of T. B. Martin of Kentucky.
In 12/06/1973 Gerald R. Ford became Vice President. President  Nixon had a White House celebration for Ford after formalities were over.
In August 1979 when the Supreme court ordered Nixon to turn over his Watergate   tapes to the special prosecutor. Nixon no longer had choice in the matter and him handed over the tapes.
When everybody knew he did that he quit, and Gerald R. Ford became the 38th President of the United States.
Early Life
Leslie L. King Jr. was born in 07/ 14/ 1913 in Nebraska. His father was Leslie L. King. His mother was Dorothy Gardner. Dorothy only  had one child. The parents divorced in 1915 and Dorothy Gardner moved to Grand  Rapids, Michigan. Then her met got married in 1916 to Gerald R. Ford. Then the young Leslie King got his new name: Gerald R. Ford Jr. At that point he had two half-sisters, three half-brothers.
At elementary school he got a nick name: Jerry. At the Yale University, he played football, penny-ante, poker games. In one case he was a football coach. Ford was a very popular, handsome young man. He won a contest as the ' Most Popular Senior' and traveled to Washington DC to be honored.
In fight school he wrote letters to get an aircraft carrier in the US NAVY. Then he became a navigation officer, he served in combat in the Pacific from Nov. 1943 to Dec. 1944 with th...

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