[Magdalen] Trump and nuclear war

[Grace Cangialosi]

I always thought that Gerald Ford, like Jimmy Carter, was much too decent and honorable to be a successful president. 

> On Sep 6, 2018, at 8:36 PM, Donald Boyd <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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>> 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?
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>>> 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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