Daily Archives: January 2, 2007
The Adopted President
Today we bury a president whose name at birth was Leslie Lynch King Jr. All this comes to mind today as we bury an adopted President, Gerald Rudolff Ford Jr. (Ford was kind enough to alter the spelling to Rudolph, perhaps in honor of Santa Claus bringing him the Presidency.) His given name at birth […]
Remembering President Ford
The State Funeral and proceedings for Gerald R. Ford have been beautiful today and over the course of the New Year’s weekend. History is lived and revealed through these proceedings, and in some cases history is being rewritten. Several themes have dominated the media coverage of President Ford: President Ford was a kind, decent man […]
