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Article: Remembering Ford.(Gerald R. Ford)(In memoriam)
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- The Washington Monthly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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I shared the warm feelings for Gerald Ford that were so evident in almost everyone during the week of mourning. There were very few discordant moments. A minor one that irritated me was the television commentators who insisted on talking over the music at the funeral, which was often as beautiful as their prattle was mindless. And I was troubled by the failure of so many congressional bigshots to interrupt their holidays to greet Ford's body as it returned to Capitol Hill. It was especially desirable that Nancy Pelosi be there. If she is to have any chance of restoring the spirit of comity to the House, she must show a human side that has heretofore not been a conspicuous ...
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