Gerald Ford’s son Steve Ford read his father's eulogy for Jimmy Carter at Thursday's funeral service, drawing a few smiles, laughs, and tears.
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File: Former president Gerald Ford visits President Jimmy Carter at the Oval Office, May 24, 1978. (Photo by Wally McNamee/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) Steven Ford spoke at Carter’s funeral ...
One of the more emotional moments during the service for President Carter Thursday morning came from the words of former ...
May 1975 - Cambodia seizes the American ship Mayaguez. Ford sends in the Navy, Marines and Air Force. The ship is retaken and the crew of 39 is rescued, although 41 American service members are killed ...
"By fate of a brief season, Jimmy Carter and I were rivals, but for the many wonderful years that followed, friendship bonded ...
and a public viewing and interment at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan. January 9, 2025 – Ford’s son, Steven Ford, reads a eulogy written by Ford at ...
Ford died in 2006, but he had asked his son Steven Ford to read Carter’s eulogy ... the words of another commander in chief — Grand Rapids’ own Gerald Ford. “According to a map, it ...