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.

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 ...

Gerald Ford, the Congressman, had become House Minority Leader, which was really one of his highest aspirations. And then gets positioned to become Vice President after the departure of Spiro ...

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.