VALE JERRY FORD

Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States died yesterday. He was the longest-lived US president.
The Boston Globe sums him up with the following observation:

. . . whose earnest manner and manifest personal decency helped restore the confidence of a nation traumatized by the Watergate scandal . . .

My memory is, that he was treated harshly by the media, who gave him no margin for error. Yet he was, I believe, a traditional Republican, a political view that can be respected by opponents. His personal qualities are sadly missed.

Postscript:

Juan Cole has a more comprehensive review of the Ford Presidency and a better memory.

Investigative journalist, Robert Parry, in a interview with Amy Goodman at Democracy Now provides a less charitable view of the Ford Presidency, in which I believe Kissinger continued as Secretary of State.