In a speech about his book 31 Days that he gave last month at the Ford Library (and C-Span broadcasted yesterday), Barry Werth made the interesting point that in 1974, when Rumsfeld and Cheney were making their first inroads at the White House as officials of the Ford Administration and Richard Perle Read More
Gerald Ford, now gravely ill, appears likely to be remembered more as a punch line than as a President. This rendezvous with parody is thanks in no small part to Chevy Chase’s pratfall impersonations of the accidental President on Saturday Night Live, the only-in-the-70’s earnestness of Mr. Ford’s “Whip Inflation Now” and swine-flu crusades, and Read More
Gerald Ford, now gravely ill, appears likely to be remembered more as a punch line than as a President. This rendezvous with parody is thanks in no small part to Chevy Chase’s pratfall impersonations of the accidental President on Saturday Night Live, the only-in-the-70’s earnestness of Mr. Ford’s “Whip Inflation Now” and swine-flu crusades, and Read More
