Washington — Democratic U.S. Rep. Hillary Scholten of Grand Rapids launched a new campaign ad this week featuring Gerald Ford, the former president who also represented west Michigan in the U.S ...

Description. This lesson explores the first 100 days of Gerald Ford's presidency. The lesson, which features Presidential historian Richard Norton Smith, opens with two reflective questions that ...

President Gerald R. Ford gives an opening day speech during the World Energy Conference in September 1974. "No one anticipated, when that amendment was passed, ...

Gerald Ford, in eulogy read by son, calls Carter his ‘old friend’ In an extraordinary moment at the Carter funeral, one president speaks to another from beyond the grave.

During a Aug. 9, 1974, ceremony at the White House, Vice President Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office. ... Ford’s inauguration speech — a talk, he called it — was brief.

Historian Alexis Coe looks back at a speech former President Gerald Ford gave to a bunch of school kids and wonders if he—and whole bunch of film and TV writers—was right all along.

Secretary of the Interior Rogers C.B. Morton was the stand-in for President Gerald Ford at Expo ‘74 and delivered the same speech, in large part, that Ford had originally been scheduled to give.