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From Softball to Hardball
2018
Overview
Gerald Ford dreamt of being Speaker of the House of Representatives, but as with many dreams life intervened. He had retired by the time his Republican Party finally got a House majority in 1994. Meanwhile, President Nixon’s choice of Ford as vice president in 1973, then his next-year farewell, left the Michigander with a consolation prize—the presidency. By comparison, the dream of his successor, James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr., was realized in an American schoolbook way: “the small-town man [a peanut farmer from the tiny burg of Plains, Georgia] who dreams of becoming president, and who by hard work
