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President Gerald Ford - Papers

President Gerald Ford


Outline
I. Introduction
II. Early Life

III. Presidency

IV. Conclusion

V. Bibliography

Introduction

Ford may not be the most important president during his time, but he
did more than some presidents did for the people. One of them was raising
their spirits and hopes for the people to the government. He helped people
gain confidence in their president again after losing confidence with Nixon.
He set new records and started getting the United States on its feet again
after having a very hard time in the past. He started his presidency with
an oath on August 9, 1974 which he said - "Our long national nightmare is
over (4, page 422)" ...

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Page 1). During his High School years, he was the most popular Senior
having been a great athlete and competing within 5 sports, his best being
Football. Being good at Football, he got a M.V.P, a scholarship to
Michigan with a Football scholarship and was offered a contract by the
Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions. He finally took a job as
assistant Football coach at Yale.

While at Yale, he became interested in law and asked to take courses.
He was soon invited to learn law in the college and didn't graduate till he
was 27 because of his late start. 1941, he set up a practice in Grand
Rapids Michigan which closed after World War II (4, page 145). He joined
the Navy and was discharged as lieutenant commander.

He married Elizabeth Bloomer Warren and entered the Republican primary
in Michigan during 1948. November, he was elected to the House of
Representatives and was reelected every two years till 1973. In the House,
he was know to be a moderately ...

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Ford
offered a conditional amnesty to Vietnam draft evaders. There was the
overthrow of the Lon Nol regime in Cambodia Kampuchea by Communist forces.
There was a successful rescue attempt for the recapture of the U.S.
Freighter Mayaguez and its crew which were seized by Cambodian forces. We
got the people back safe (1, Page 2).

His economic plan was initialed W.I.P. This meant Wip Inflation Now.
This said that average people could beat inflation if we all worked
together. This plan was meant to include everyone in fighting the rising
economic problems. He even received personal mail which said that people
were listening about what he had said to them about the W.I.P. idea ...

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Added: 4/28/2008 04:06:12 PM
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