Ed. Interesting and accurate history.
Townhall.com Patrick J. Buchanan December 29, 2006
Gerald R. Ford was a good man who served his country well in an evil time.
When he took office on Aug. 9, 1974, and declared, “Our long national nightmare is over,” Ford did not fully appreciate that those who had done the most to create the nightmare were still here. The establishment that Nixon had humiliated in his 49-state landslide, having just effected a coup d’etat, had crawled back into power.
This White House file photograph, provided courtesy of the Gerald R. Ford Library, shows President Gerald Ford, center, as he confers with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, left and National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Oct. 8, 1974. Ford, who declared “Our long national nightmare is over” as he replaced Richard Nixon but may have doomed his own chances of election by pardoning his disgraced predecessor, died Tuesday Dec. 26, 2006. He was 93. Ford’s golden retriever, Liberty is in the foreground. (AP Photo/White House,Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library, David Hume Kennerly) That establishment, which had hated Nixon since the Alger Hiss case and loathed Spiro Agnew for his wildly popular attacks on the liberal press, embraced “Jerry” Ford, and never more eagerly than when he elevated one of their own, Nelson Rockefeller, to the vice presidency.
August 1974 was the happy hour of American liberalism, when the press discovered that, amazingly, Jerry Ford actually toasted his own English muffins in his kitchen and buttered them himself, before heading off to the White House. How wonderful it all was.
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