Ford’s Legacy of Healing
By Mark Updegrove | Thursday, December 28, 2006 | The Boston Globe
Updegrove is the author of “Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies after the White House”. I present this piece not because I agree with it (I do not), but because it points up the way legacies get distorted when Presidents die. Ford had Cheney as his Chief of Staff. His pardon of Nixon was political suicide, and deprived the US of the judicial process for Nixon’s high crimes in office. He did not preside over the end of the Vietnam War in anything but name. But he’s dead, and people do blather on so about noble ideals when folks die. Bitter? Me? Moi? You bet…BS
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/12/28/fords_legacy_of_healing/
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