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post Dec 28 2006, 08:48 AM
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I wanted to put this up for tributes to our 38th President, but also to share this article in newsweek. It seems Ron Reagan tried really hard to get Gerald Ford to be his VP, instead of George HR Bush, which would have meant a total rewriting of the role of a VP, into more of a co-President type of job. This is a long, but interesting read.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16371870/site/newsweek
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post Dec 28 2006, 08:56 AM
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Also another interesting article was how Ford affected us in NW Indiana with the expansion of the national lakeshore

http://www.post-trib.com/news/189019,ford.article

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Ford left mark with expansion of lakeshore

December 28, 2006
BY STEVE WALSH Post-Tribune
Former President Gerald R. Ford's ties to Northwest Indiana include agreeing to preserve some of the most valuable real estate in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, visiting Lake County before and after his short presidency, and ousting a congressman from Rensselaer from a House leadership post.

Northwest Indiana environmentalists remember him as the man who signed the single largest expansion of the Indiana Dunes Na-tional Lakeshore since the park was created in 1966.

The bill expanded the park by 4,205 acres, including the Heron Rookery at the west end of the park. That represents 28 percent of the current park's size.

With 2 million visitors a year, the National Lakeshore is one of the most heavily visited in the country, said Conni Clay, resource specialist for the Michigan City-based environmental organization Save the Dunes.

"I would have to say from Save the Dunes' perspective that one bill ranks high on his list of accomplishments," she said.

Out of the White House for nearly a decade in July 1986, Ford spoke at a pair of breakfast meetings at the Radisson (then the Holiday Star) in Merrillville, including a fund-raiser for James Butcher, a Republican Congressional candidate from Kokomo.

"I was impressed with him as a peron, not just a president," said Dolores Aylesworth, whose husband, Michael, was Porter County GOP chairman in 1986. She sat next to Ford at the breakfast and asked about his wife, Betty.

Ford had been campaigning hard for congressional candidates that year. He was expected to drop in on at least 30 fund-raisers around the country. He nearly missed the Lake County date, when his plane could not land in Valparaiso, according to Post-Tribune archives.

Al Evans, a GOP organizer, lined up Ford's visit. He talked with the former president for 20 minutes before he was scheduled to go on stage.

"We just sat there and chatted. He was so kind and such a gentleman, you hardly remembered you were talking to a former president," Evans said.

Later in the morning, Ford appeared at the South Lake Christian Men's Fellowship breakfast in another part of the banquet center.

"I don't remember what he said that day, but I remember his demeanor. He has a strong commitment to his faith," said Tom R. Ferrall, retired spokesman for U.S. Steel, who helped organize the breakfast.

Ford spent most of his political career in Congress. As House Republican leader he was the featured speaker in 1972 for the Lake County GOP Lincoln Day dinner at St. Sava Serbian Hall in Hobart, according the Post-Tribune archives.

Ford began his breakthrough in GOP Congressional leadership in 1963 when he took the helm of the House Republican Conference. Then in 1965, he ousted DeMotte native Charles Halleck, who kept a Rensselaer address during his three decades in office, from the House minority leadership post he had held for six years in a 73-to-67 secret ballot. The Republicans had suffered big losses in the 1964 national elections, sweeping out some of Halleck's supporters and raising a sense of urgency within the Republican ranks.

One of the public highlights of the Ford minority leadership was a weekly news conference with Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-Ill., which quickly became know as the "Ev and Jerry Show." Ford lacked Dirksen's oratorical talents, and he sometimes found himself on the losing end of exchanges with the Illinois senator.

It was at this period of his career that Ford was on the receiving end of two well-publicized gibes of President Lyndon Johnson. The president once suggested that Ford couldn't "chew gum and walk at the same time" and also commented that "there's nothing wrong with Gerald Ford except he played football too long without a helmet."

Ford incorporated this last remark into some of his own speeches, correctly giving the original authorship to former Detroit Mayor Gerald Cavanaugh.

Reach Steve Walsh at 648-3120 or swalsh@post-trib.com

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So far the NYSE, NASDAQ, federal government, and the federal reserve bank are all going to be closed on Tuesday. It will be interesting to see if regular banks and the futures exchanges will be open or not.
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