[Magdalen] Trump and nuclear war

[Donald Boyd]

Ford was actually a pretty decent place-holder President.  In all of the 
best-to-worst-President rankings that I have seen (the media offer us 
such lists from time to time) there are others who are deemed far worse 
than he.  He had one job to do:  Clean Up The Mess so as to Restore 
Confidence in the Presidency.  I think there is general agreement that 
he accomplished that as well as anyone could have.   He was not a suave 
smooth-talking pol and the media delighted in depicting him as a hapless 
clown (in fairness, he gave them plenty of material), but I don't recall 
anyone's suggesting that he was morally unfit for the office.


On 9/6/2018 6:46 PM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> Ford? The only President never elected to either top 2offices.
> Lynn
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> On Sep 6, 2018, at 4:07 PM, Roger Stokes via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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>> On 06/09/2018 19:48, ME Michaud wrote:
>> Spiro Agnew was forced to resign.
> He resigned after pleading guilty (in a plea deal) to offences arising from corruption and payments while he was VP. Are there any allegations of similar corruption against Pence?
>
>> He was succeeded by Gerald Ford.
>> Who made a spectacular president when Nixon was forced to resign.
> Sarcasm? Is he the only person, certainly in relatively recent history, to have become President without having been on the ballot for either President or VP?
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> Roger
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