Thread by @PrezWisdom

Happy Birthday Gerald Ford 🇺🇸!
Born #OTD 1913.

Ford's birth name was actually Leslie Lynch King, Jr.

Gerald Ford 🇺🇸 is the only Vice President and President to not be elected to either position
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Young Gerald Ford 🇺🇸, ladies and gentlemen.

For those of you whose parents cut your hair at home as a kid to "save money"....
....you too can grow up to become President.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson 🇺🇸 asked future POTUS Gerald Ford 🇺🇸 to be on the Warren Commission that investigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy 🇺🇸
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Gerald Ford's 🇺🇸 poll numbers dropped dramatically when he pardoned Richard Nixon 🇺🇸

Interestingly, an ABC News poll taken in 2002 in connection with the 30th anniversary of the Watergate break-in found that six in 10 Americans said the pardon was the right thing to do
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Gerald Ford 🇺🇸 and his wife Betty Ford appeared in a 1983 episode of the soap opera "Dynasty" playing themselves.
They were paid $330 each (the industry standard) for their minor contribution.
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HOMETOWN HERO
Presidents and the newspapers in their home state.

Gerald Ford 🇺🇸 (1974)
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Early during Gerald Ford’s 🇺🇸 Presidency, on Christmas Day 1974, a man claiming to be the messiah crashed a Chevrolet Impala through the Northwest Gate and drove up to the North Portico.

He got out with flares strapped to his body but eventually surrendered.

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The Green Bay @packers attempted to sign future President Gerald Ford 🇺🇸 out of the University of @UMichFootball but Ford opted to pursue higher education instead
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