SOURCES: FORMER PRESIDENT GERALD FORD'S HEALTH TAKES TURN FOR THE WORSE... DEVELOPING...

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[halosfan2002]

SOURCES: FORMER PRESIDENT GERALD FORD'S HEALTH TAKES TURN FOR THE WORSE... DEVELOPING...

[halosfan2002]

That's all so far in red letters on Drudge...much prayers for the former President.

[inkling]

How old is he now? In his 90s?

[halosfan2002]

93 I believe.

[RoyStevens]

What's the deal with this?

[peyton randolph]

Born July 14, 1913.

[RoyStevens]

I believe I just heard he is the oldest living exPresident ever.

[halosfan2002]

Awaiting more details from Drudge.

[inkling]

He's the author of one of my favorite quotes: "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."

[Irish Rose]

Prayers.

[AVNevis]

Prayers up

[AbeKrieger]

I believe I just heard he is the oldest living exPresident ever.

Passed Reagan on Nov 13. He's it.

[Dallas59]

I like him. Hope he gets better.

[Zeon Cowboy]

I'll be praying for him.

[MinorityRepublican]

93 years. That's a long and fruitful life.

[myprecious]

President Ford accepted a very difficult job and performed with grace. May the Lord be with him now.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Prayers for President Ford and his family.

[Rte66]

I've lit a candle for him in the FR Prayer Room. I hope it isn't his time to go, but if it is, bless him!

Burning a Candle for Pres Ford

Light An FR Prayer Room Candle

[California Patriot]

We should all hope for the best for this good man.

Thank you and God bless, President Ford.

[California74]

I'll be praying for President Ford as I go to sleep tonight (in a few minutes).

May God Bless him.

[Lancey Howard]

President Ford accepted a very difficult job and performed with grace. May the Lord be with him now.

Well put. I remember those times clearly (unfortunately) and have always thought that Ford has been underestimated by history. It took guts for him to pardon Nixon, but that was exactly the right thing to do at that time. The ultimate "time to move on".

I also thought he handled that crisis with North Korea very well.

[monocle]

President Ford was the recipient of the worst press coverage I can recall. The press constistently portrayed him as a bumbling idiot and took delight in highlighting his physical mishaps even though he was he most athletic president in history.

[cdnerds]

You can replace Ford with Bush and it sounds exactly the same.. The press hates anyone with an "R" after their name.

[flaglady47]

"The press constistently portrayed him as a bumbling idiot and took delight in highlighting his physical mishaps even though he was he most athletic president in history."

You got that right. His wife was a dancer when young. Ford was very athletic. I wish him the best. He has lived a long and full life, a good man who came along at the right time as a much needed transitional President who could calm the country down. And he did.

[kalee]

Prayers for President Ford and his family.

[MaryFromMichigan]

Prayers for a Michigan boy who who did us proud.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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At his swearing-in President FORD stated that "America's long nightmare of Vietnam was over."

NOT.


Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts

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[RetiredArmy]

He's the author of one of my favorite quotes: "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."

Thank you for that quote. I had never seen it. That SAYS IT ALL. That says exactly what the socialist dimocrats are all about. EXACTLY.

[G Larry]

Prayers up!

[nina0113]

It's amazing how few Americans even know about those camps. America's "long nightmare" did indeed end, but Vietnam's continues.

Do you have a link to a good source for how many people were sent to and died in those camps? I'm making Christmas cookies right now (slacking on Free Republic while I wait for the dishwasher to finish) so don't have time to do much research.

[theDentist]

C'mon Mr. President, hold on as long as you can.

[OldFriend]

Amen.

He was far more of man than the media ever admitted.

[Graymatter]

>>long national nightmare

I thought he was talking about Watergate. Of course I was 20-something at the time...

[mewzilla]

Prayers for the president and his family.

[WestCoastGal]

Sending my prayers for the President.

I worked for him and Mrs Ford off and on for several years when they had parties at the Rancho Mirage home. He is the most genuinely nice man I have ever met.

God bless President Ford.

[Freedom4US]

For some reason, I hear the airhead reporters saying this verbatim. It's not like he's the oldest dead ex-president, so it seems redundant.

[ohioWfan]

Prayers for President Ford and Betty!

[afnamvet]

Prayers for President Ford, Betty and his family.

[Right Brother]

I thought he was talking about Watergate.

You are correct.

[ErnBatavia]

Nothing on the website from the local (Palm Springs area, where we and he live) paper about this yet. A quick driveby to Eisenhower Medical Center would probably reveal a few hints, however.

[newzjunkey]

He's been in the hospital off and on many times this year and was apparently fitted with a pace maker in addition to having angioplasty performed. He's had stroke in the past and brushes with pneumonia.

Bottom line: he's old and we don't last for ever.

[Halls]

you can't live forever, but it will be sad when he passes. God bless Ford.

[fnord]

a good and decent man. not our best President by any measure, but compared to some who followed him, he was a giant.

[alwaysconservative]

Thank you; I had forgotten that. In the very first election in which I voted, I'm proud to say that I voted for President Ford over that sanctimonious twit of a peanut farmer. I have always thought that Ford, a pragmatist, was treated shabbily by the media and press, following the same tired template that they do for all Republican presidents.

[Dave S]

Hasnt this been true for the better part of a year?

[The Mayor]

Prayers for the President.

[McGavin999]

That is a wonderful place. Thank you so much for sharing it, I lit a candle for President Ford.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Literally dodged the bullet once and a near bullet (whacko dame with a .45 but not with a round in the chamber) another time. He's had some close one's I'll say. I will recall him for taking on the Khmer Rouge in the Gulf of Thailand over the SS Mayaguez even though Americans were sick and tired of conflict in Southeast Asia at that time.

[afnamvet]

A drive by may be in order. Nothing on Fox yet.

[meg88]

Hang in there Mr. President!