Live Thread: Funeral of President Gerald Ford (Arrival at the Capitol)

www.freerepublic.com | December 30, 2006

[Howlin]

The President's plane is arriving at Andrews Air Force Base at this moment.

[tina07]

look who woke up again...

[Right_in_Virginia]

Fox has been very respectful. No commercials.

Agree.

[Coldwater Creek]

Actually, Billy Graham said that Bubba missed his calling as an evangelist.

[John W]

Rummy stuck in New Mexico snowstorm-NBC.

[Arizona Carolyn]

She died ten months before Nixon, she had a stroke in 1976 and again in 1982 and died of lung cancer.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I just noticed, the Navy guys are E-3's..wonder how they were picked?

[Miss Marple]

What a shame! I know he would want to be here for this.

[STARWISE]

I don't understand your participation on a thread in which you have no interest, in fact sounds like you disdain it. What on earth is the payoff for you?

[advance_copy]

I am sick of the press saying that Ford became "good friends" with Jimmy Carter."

Here is what Ford said about Carter in 1981:

(From "Ronald Reagan in Private" pg 98)

…And then one more person emerged from somewhere. I apologized again and asked for one more photo and assured them this was the last photo.

“You’re right,” snapped Carter. “I don’t care who else is on this plane, I’m not doing any more photos.” He turned on me, raising his voice. “Do you understand me?”

“Yes, sir, I do,” I told him. Carter stormed out of the executive lounge.

I was devastated. The thirty-ninth president of the United States had just taken me apart. The photos hadn’t seemed like such a big deal and, in fact, Ford hadn’t objected.

“I really screwed this up for President Carter,” I said to Ford.

“No, you didn’t young man,” Ford said warmly. “That worked fine.”

He grinned at me as if he were confiding a secret.

“I’ve always said,” he told me, “that you can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shi*t.”

With that, he shook his head. President Ford made me feel human again.

That is what President Ford thought of Jimmah Carter, chicken sh*t.

[Coldwater Creek]

Thanks for the reply.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Can't wait to here all the sadness around here when Clinton croaks. Hypocrites.

You need to back away from your bong, turn off your computer, and get some much needed sleep.

[gab1279]

One of the pallbearers is from our area (Southeast TX) - he's the African American sailor. :) We're proud!

[Arizona Carolyn]

So he will not be there to welcome the family into Blair House like he did the Reagan Family.

[tina07]

I'm certain you meant 'hear' not here..and there is a time and a place for your comments, both of which aren't now

[Miss Marple]

Oh, thank you! That restores my faith in Mankind!

Old Friend, please read post 449!

[Coldwater Creek]

Sometimes I get really cranky when I am tired or having a bad day. Are you o.k.?

[Txsleuth]

I don't know...I need to ask my nephew what he might know about what steps he has to take..

[Arizona Carolyn]

Then he was in NM... very unlikely he would be able to get out, I guess he could drive down to Phoenix and get a flight out of there.

[SevenofNine]

I think it going be while before First pimp go to big brothal in the sky

I think next guy going to go Jimmy Carter he dont' look good

George Bush 41 he has plenty of years ahead of him he is next guy that give through into 90s

[tina07]

and your boy has made out realll good doing the same, $150K and up per speech..go away