Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977. He washed dishes at his fraternity house to earn money for college expenses. Regardless, historians believe the controversy was one of the major reasons Ford lost the 1976 presidential election, an observation with which Ford agreed. In an editorial at the time, The New York Times stated that the Nixon pardon was a 'profoundly unwise, divisive and unjust act' that in a stroke had destroyed the new president's 'credibility as a man of judgment, candor and competence'. On October 17, 1974, Ford testified before Congress on the pardon.
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