IMHO, President Ford is only remembered for being in the shadow of Nixon’s resignation AND the mess with Spirew Agnew. In fact, the only thing textbooks can say is that he’s the only President never elected. Matter of fact…I’m not even sure where he came from! But, I was too young to care.
So, do you think Pres. Ford will just be a hiccup in the annals of history?
If he can keep breathing for a few more months, he’ll be the longest living president. That’s worth another textbook entry.
I’ll always remember him…as the deliverer of the longest most boringinst crappiest nonsensical pointlessest speech I’ve ever sat through. As far as his presidency, I don’t know, I was not in existance yet and all of my history books were too old to have him in them yet.
He was related to Chevy Chase, right?
Does history remember Zachary Taylor, who served only one year and three months? Or his VP, Millard Fillmore, who finished the final three years? Just being POTUS secures their places in the books.
My elementary school was named after Zachary Taylor.
Which supports your point, I guess.
He will be “remembered” more than a lot of other presidents only because of his connection to Nixon and Watergate. That and because of the interesting bit of trivia that he was never elected.
A high school student, class of 2200, might have a test question like “Who became president when Nixon resigned?” or “Under what circumstances did Gerald Ford become president?” but I doubt he or she will be expected to know anything about Ford’s actual presidency.
Who?
President Ford: Frankly, I’ve never found voting all that essential to the process.
Michigan.
Whether or not history will remember him, I always will, as the last Republican I ever voted for. It was a mock presidential election and I was in grade school, and I cast my fake ballot for Ford. He won my class but lost the nation.
I know this reflects terribly on my grounding in American history, but for some reason I conflate Coolidge, Wilson, and Ford into one mighty decade-spanning Nebula-in-Chief.
Glenn Ford was president? 
I’ll say this for Gerald Ford: he was a straight talker.
That’s a terribly long decade. 
Coolidge/Hoover were president from 1921-1933. Ford became president 41 years later, in 1974 and served until 1977. So your decade lasted 56 years. 
I meant decade spanning as in inter-decadal, not intra-decadal.
But it was a long presidency nonetheless. 
Where have you people been hiding that you can’t remember how he broght inflation to a screeching halt with the WIN buttons?
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Leslie Mielsen: "I wonder what President Ford would have done?
(Looks at painting of Harrison Ford)
--- Scary Movie 3
President Ford will get more space in the histiory books than Queen Lady Jane Grey. And she’s already a shoo-in.
William Henry Harrison High School. Hell, there’s more than one of them.
I mean, at least Ford lived through his own inaugural address.
Of COURSE history will remember him.
What the hell are the posters on the classroom wall with the little mini-portraits gonna say otherwise?