I always felt like Ford was like us, that he didn't take himself too seriously and he didn't think he was the be all end all because the became president.
Not at all. So true. He stayed real.
Yes! THIS was one quality that made him such a great man and a good President.
It was likely because he knew he'd never been elected to either of the two highest offices in the land. That doesn't mean he wasn't qualified for them, he just knew that he hadn't been chosen by a majority of the voters, in either case, so he didn't act like he had.