Talk:Gerald Ford/Archive 1

message: For pics go to http://www.ford.utexas.edu/avproj/media-photo-kit.asp --LuisLJ403 05:53, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures

message: No mention of 1980 Veep consideration.  What's up with that?  --WinOne4TheGipper 22:21, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Umm Hello?

message: For my fellow genealogy buffs.
President Gerald Rudolph Ford and George Herbert Walker Bush "Sr." are 7th cousins.  Their common ancestors are Hendrick “Henry” Vanderburgh b.1685/86 and Maria Magdalena Knight . Their families resided in  the Dutchess County, New York area.
Lori Brill McKee lbrill@kdsi.net
:Please provide link/source. Thanks 198.151.12.8 16:25, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gerald Ford and George Bush Sr. are 7th Cousins 

message: Having added a source for the bit about Gerald Ford promising to milk people's cows if elected - and isn't that technically a bribe? - I will forever lament that I didn't write, in the edit summary, "Added source attesting to Gerald Ford's milk production" - Ashley Pomeroy 13:28, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't think you can be arrested for promising to milk cows ; ). Funnyhat 23:33, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Milk 

message: Is Gerald Ford the shortest-serving President who did not actually die in office? -Litefantastic 03:50, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. -- SNIyer12 20:03, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Thought

message: The early life section says that Ford was not formally adopted and then says that he was one of two presidents who were adopted. Could someone (who is better at writing) please fix that. CDA 18:12, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Adoption

message: Decry or confirm: does Ford have the shortest standing term in office for a President who didn't die in office? -Litefantastic 23:25, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia question

message: Scholarship is not in the eye of the beholder.  The article Scholarly method explains how scholarship works. Wiki has rules that the standards of a discipline must apply and in this case that's history.  History has very wellestablished procedures for telling scholarly books, and hundreds of journals that review these books.   Rjensen
*Please stop this edit war.  Both you and Markles have violated the 3RR today, and could be reported and blocked.  --JW1805 (Talk) 21:36, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scholarship 

message: I removed <note to editor the picture link has mispelled reagan as reagen.> from right the 1976 header that a concerned newly minted editor had put there. I explained things on the editors talk page.--Dakota ~  ° 01:54, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed edit

message: "Ford said little, his position compromised by his position." Huh? We also seem to jump from him being VP to acting President without actually mentioning it. Most bizarre. --kingboyk 15:01, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's been fixed.  Jtmichcock 15:11, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Looks like you were working on it at the same time as I commented. I didn't fix it myself, since I came to the page as an uninformed reader :) --kingboyk 11:20, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vice Presidency 

message: Wasn't washington also never elected?69.9.28.147 01:18, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, he was elected.  By white men with property, but elected nonetheless.  Jtmichcock 01:20, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Quite the contrary - Washington was the only person ever unanimously elected by the electoral college. Raul654 03:52, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Only president never elected president or VP?

message: :Alkivar phone number vandal uses Sympatico, everyone contact 1-877-877-2426, [abuse@sympatico.ca]
:Algee12 00:47, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: peaze? S.morton 01:15, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Well everyone calling Sympatico should make them notice... ;) --Rory096 09:04, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Posting Personal Information Into Edit Summary

message: While I'm not fan of the show I do remember that Gerald Ford made a guest apperance Dynasty (1981 TV series) in one episode but there is no mention of this in the article. The Fading Light 01:33, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dynasty Apperance

message: What? Nothing about Johnson's claim that Ford couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time?!! It's what defined his presidency. 81.107.34.65 01:41, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Gum

message: The photo caption for the young Ford under the Early Life section says that he is pictured with his pet Boxer, but the dog in the image appears to be a Boston Terrier. Any sources on the Boxer statement? -- Tyler 04:43, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The two breeds do look quite similar.  The page from which the picture came claims it is a boston terrier. PrometheusX303 14:27, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pet boxer? 

message: I believe that the lead should be just that--the lead.  That Ford was VP is important, but not so important that it should be mentioned before mentioning his presidency.  Look at other articles.  Nixon, LBJ, George H.W. Bush--none of these mention in the lead sentence the fact that the man was VP.
In Ford's case his vice-presidency was unique, having been the first appointed to the position under the terms of the 25th Amendment. That, however, is still not as significant as the fact that he did serve as President. Unschool 05:57, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born 14 July 1913) was the 38th (1974–1977) President of the United States and the 40th (1973–1974) Vice President and the 67th Minority Leader in the House of Representatives (1965-1973) and the 18th Representative from the 5th District of Michigan (1949-1973) and the 2nd chairman of the G7 (1976) and the 28th starting center for the Michigan Wolverines (1932-1933)"?  
I mean, these all have their place in the article.  But not in the lead sentence. Unschool 01:06, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead Sentence 

message: Nice work on this article. I had remembered Ford as ineffectual and intellectually weak president in the usual republican mold. Looking back, that seems a little unfair. With the democratic majority in congress, there may have been little more he could do besides going around promoting WIN buttons..
In any case, he seems to have earned broad and sincere respect from both parties. Undoubtedly quite a decent fellow.. A lot's been said here about President Ford's age. But whatever age he eventually reaches (I wish him long life), it's clear he belongs to another era.
--Philopedia 22:41, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nice Job 

message: Betty Ford's full maiden name was Elizabeth Ann Bloomer, and Warren was added after her later divorced marriage to William G. Warren, so I have a right to change the info in the President cell. If there's any question, please discuss it here. --65.73.0.137
Her name was simply Bloomer.  To state that her "name" was Warren falls into the same trap as stating that her name was "Ford" and so your logic doesn't hold.  If she was not Betty "Ford" then equally she was not Betty Warren.  She was Betty Bloomer. --User:wjhonson
* Hmm, in checking a few other presidents infoboxes, see LBJ, Nixon , Ike, it looks like the wife's name is listed as First OnePreviousLastName MarriedLastName.  I'd leave it as Betty Ford, as that is what she is commonly known as.  In her article the info about names/marriages is covered.  Plus, I'm thinking the whole what is a woman's correct name discussion is more appropriate for article titles, not in-article references.  2c  -- MrDolomite | Talk 17:51, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Betty Ford]]'s name

message: Is there any reason the  tag is still on this article? I'm not seeing any coverage of current events here. ---DrLeebot 12:46, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  He went in the hospital last night, as noted in the article. wikipediatrix 12:49, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any reason for "Current" tag? 

message: Before the trivia section there is the following unsourced statement:
"Ford, the oldest of the living ex-presidents, has requested a state funeral and plans to be buried at his Presidential Library honoring him in his former hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan called the Gerald R. Ford Library"
However, the Ford library is in Ann Arbor; the Ford Museum is in Grand Rapids so something is wrong here. Does anyone know what's correct? Does anyone have a citation ? 71.71.126.86 13:56, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Funeral plans 

message: I fleshed out Ford's military service based on material posted on the U.S. Naval Historical Center web site. I also checked the sources used in that FAQ and spoke to the author, Ms. Kathy Lloyd, Chief of the Navy Operational Archives. The text is all public domain. Johnfmh 13:32, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Military Service 

message: was fords pardon of nixon to early? or should it not have happened at all?
64.8.188.133 18:23, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The question is irrelevant. Wikipedia is about collecting and dissemination information about things that are, and things that have happened…notn about things that should have happened. I'm sure there's a political or historical message board somewhere where you can discuss your question.--RattBoy 22:20, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pardon of Nixon 

message: Hello everyone. It seems there is only one tiny paragraph about Fordy's two earth-shattering falls. SO, I suggest the article be expanded with an obstensive section for Ford's fall-down-ed-ness and also maybe add this line to the opening paragraphs: ".....as well as being the United State's most clumsy  and most wanted to be assasinated president." I think the benefits of theses changes are obvious. Cheers! -- I don't know how to make the signature0 <Time-date][code- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.51.176.208 (talk • contribs) 23:36, 20 September 2006
:Just add four tildes at the end of your "contribution," such as it is.--RattBoy 10:07, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disenchantment 

message: Arlen Specter was also on the Warren Commission—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.52.129.58 (talk • contribs) 01:44, 23 October 2006
:No, he wasn't. According to the Warren Commission article, Specter "worked as a staff attorney for the commission." Ford is the last surviving member of the Commission.--RattBoy 10:10, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Warren Commission 

message: I duplicated the statement that Ford was the longest lived president, by placing a copy of the sentence in the first paragraph into the trivia. I did that because I came here looking for that item, and checked trivia first since I did not think it worthy of mention anywhere else. I have seen this duplication in a number of Wiki articles. Nwbeeson 13:32, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, he will not.  It should mention, though, that he was the longest living president in the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.149.236.86 (talk) 05:18, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest-lived President 

message: Can someone please verify if the quote box containing "I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln.
—Gerald R. Ford, December 1973[6]" is overlaping the text, I'm looking at it in Firefox and it appears so. 65.8.142.34 20:30, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It does not overlap. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Brian25 (talk • contribs) 18:20, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Life 

message: Here's an article (the only complete one I could find) about Ford's death--someone should add a link to it in the "Death" section. http://cbs4.com/topstories/topstories_story_227195601.html
Gah, see!  I'm horrible at finding things..good job.  Oreo
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBIT_FORD?SITE=WDUN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Should Help. Make sure to include. 
"My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age," Mrs. Ford said in a brief statement issued from her husband's office in Rancho Mirage. "His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country." --Luislj403 05:19, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death 

message: FoxNews has been broadcasting live ever since the news broke, without commercial breaks.  ABC, CBS, and NBC cut off for late night shows. MSNBC and CNN did??? anyone know? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Luislj403 (talk • contribs) 08:11, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  In The Media 

message: < http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gerald_Ford&diff=96680482&oldid=96658992 >:
It's just past 21:00, here in Coachella Valley.
So, I guess that it had been prior to 18:00?
Thank You.
[[ hopiakuta  | [[ %c2%a1 %c2%bf  %7e%7e%7e%7e  -]] 05:15, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please do use the [[tilde]]s.  [[%c2%a1]] [[%c2%bf]] [[ %7e%7e%7e%7e ]] 

message: should this also be noted under the "Trivia" section, as he has now passed away?Nitrous231 05:16, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If the factoid can be referenced using reliable sources, then yes, it can. -Fsotrain09 05:20, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: yeah... it can't be referenced because it's wrong information =/ I got Nixon and Reagan confused, but I don't know how.Nitrous231 05:23, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Lol. Go and check some internet sources. BTW, will there be a state funeral for Ford? I haven't heard of anything yet atm. Terence Ong 05:26, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Newsmax.com  states that all presidents except Clinton have filed a wish for a state funeral with the Washington Military District. --Charlene 05:34, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  38th to be born, 38th to serve, 38th to die