# Will History Remember Pres. Ford? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 7, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653 "2006-04-07T00:34:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/1 "2006-04-07T00:34:02Z")
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? - Jinx ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/2 "2006-04-07T00:45:23Z")
If he can keep breathing for a few more months, he’ll be the longest living president. That’s worth another textbook entry. ---
**Author:** ![xbuckeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9e8a1a/32.png) [@xbuckeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xbuckeye)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/3 "2006-04-07T00:56:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![raindog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raindog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raindog)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/4 "2006-04-07T01:10:06Z")
He was related to Chevy Chase, right? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/5 "2006-04-07T01:27:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/6 "2006-04-07T02:03:28Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Does history remember Zachary Taylor My elementary school was named after Zachary Taylor. Which supports your point, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/7 "2006-04-07T03:00:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/8 "2006-04-07T03:01:30Z")
Who? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/9 "2006-04-07T03:18:38Z")
President Ford: Frankly, I’ve never found voting all that essential to the process. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/10 "2006-04-07T04:17:34Z")
> [@Jinx](#): > > Matter of fact…I’m not even sure where he came from! 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. ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/11 "2006-04-07T06:15:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/12 "2006-04-07T06:24:04Z")
Glenn Ford was president? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/13 "2006-04-07T06:31:36Z")
I’ll say this for Gerald Ford: he was a [straight talker](http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/P/gf38/speeches/su75grf.htm). > [@](#): > > The state of the Union is not good. ---
**Author:** ![Mayo\_Speaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mayo\_Speaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayo_Speaks)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/14 "2006-04-07T06:43:36Z")
> [@Lama Pacos](#): > > 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. 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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/15 "2006-04-07T06:55:31Z")
I meant decade spanning as in inter-decadal, not intra-decadal. ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/16 "2006-04-07T06:56:37Z")
But it was a long presidency nonetheless. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/17 "2006-04-07T12:23:31Z")
Where have you people been hiding that you can’t remember how he broght inflation to a screeching halt with the WIN buttons? hh ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/18 "2006-04-07T12:42:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/19 "2006-04-07T13:26:38Z")
[William Henry Harrison High School.](http://www.wvec.k12.in.us/harrison/) Hell, there’s [more than one](http://www.southwestschools.org/harrisonhigh/mainpage/hsmain.htm) [of them](http://www.evsc.k12.in.us/schoolzone/schools/harrison/index.htm). I mean, at least Ford lived through his own inaugural address. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653/20 "2006-04-07T13:34:29Z")
Of COURSE history will remember him. What the hell are the posters on the classroom wall with the little mini-portraits gonna say otherwise? > [@](#): > > . > . > . > Lyndon Johnson 1963-1969 > Richard Nixon 1969-1974 > Some Guy 1974-1977 > Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 > . > . > . [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-history-remember-pres-ford/351653.md?page=2)