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Gerald Ford, R.I.P.

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- Ford Is Remembered at Funeral in Washington
- The Ex-Presidents’ Club Bids a Member Goodbye
- Ford library is a window on his unique legacy
- Ford Library Expects More Visitors
- Bush and Ex-Presidents Eulogize Ford
- Moderate? Conservative? With Gerald Ford, Take Your Pick
- Betty Ford: Back in View, a First Lady With Her Own Legacy
- Ford, in Final Journey, Returns to ‘Real Home’ for a Solemn Memorial
- Recent Flexing of Presidential Powers Had Personal Roots in Ford White House
- Richard Ben-Veniste says Nixon pardon was right, but should have been delayed
- NBC reports Ford was alienated from the modern Republican Party
- Ford, Nixon Sustained Friendship for Decades and may have been behind the pardon says Bob Woodward
- Ford insisted on an honest museum, even if history was sometimes unflattering
- Ford Arranged His Funeral to Reflect Himself and Drew in a Former Adversary
- For Ford, Pardon Decision Was Always Clear-Cut
- An Accountant, a Manson Devotee Remain in Prison for 1975 Attacks
- Post-presidential years of Jerry Ford
- Ford's Former Home Languishes on Market
- Ford Always Managed to Be a Good Sport
- Similar Personnel, Different Approaches: Bush and Ford
- For Ford, Pardon Decision Was Always Clear-Cut
- Ford, Nixon Sustained Friendship for Decades
- In Death Coverage, a Broadcast Rite of Passage Manages to Avoid the Melodramatic
- Ford, at his request, will get less lavish state funeral than Reagan
- Ford Disagreed With Bush About Invading Iraq (Bob Woodward interview)
- Gerald R. Ford Dies at 93; President Reached Out to Academe After Acrimony of Nixon Era
- Ford never second-guessed Nixon pardon
- Gerald R. Ford, Ex-U.S. President, Dies (AP Obit)
- Gerald R. Ford, 93, Dies; Led in Watergate's Wake (WaPo Obit)
- Gerald Ford, 38th President, Dies at 93 (NYT Obit)
- Famous Headline Haunted Former President
Commentary
- Gil Troy: Gerald Ford ... Both Steely and Nice
- Jonathan Zimmerman: Ford and Brown ... Remember the Dark Side
- Gerald Ford May Have Been too Much a Product of Grand Rapids for His Own Good (And Ours)
- Paul Loeb: Gerald Ford's Failure of Nerve
- Michael Beschloss: An unlikely president, Gerald Ford steadied America and, in an unpublished interview, mused about her fate
- Michael Barone: Jerry Ford in History
- Rick Shenkman: Ford both a man of the past and the future
- John Robert Greene: Why Republicans Feel Guilty About Gerald Ford
- Timothy Noah: Washington's Jones for Gerald Ford
- Fred Barnes: The Underappreciated President
- Yanek Mieczkowski: Why Did Gerald Ford Criticize His Former Colleagues and the Iraq War?
- Max Holland: Jerry Ford Was No Accidental President
- Christopher Bates: Will Vindication Elude Ford?
- Barry Werth: On Ford's Pardon of Nixon
- Robert Drury and Tom Clavin: How Lieutenant Ford Saved His Ship
- WSJ Editorial: History dealt Ford a weak hand; he played it well
- Melvin R. Laird: The Ford presidency was a happy accident for America
- Bob Woodward: Writing an End to Watergate
- Rick Shenkman: What Gerald Ford tells us about American politics
- Yanek Mieczkowski: Lessons from America’s Oldest President
- Yanek Mieczkowski: The Secrets of Gerald Ford's Success ... 30 Years After he Became President It's Time to Consider What Made Him Tick
- Yanek Mieczkowski: Happy Birthday President Ford
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Stephen Kislock - 12/30/2006
"Jakarta Godfather" by John Pilger, Guardian, 7 September, 1999:
"No help came, because the western democracies were secret partners in a crime as great and enduring as any this century; proportionally, not even Pol Pot matched Suharto's spree. Air Force One, carring President Ford and his secretary of state Henry Kissinger, climbed out of Indonesian airspace the day the bloodbath began. "They came and gave Suharto the green light," Philip Liechty, the CIA desk officer in Jakarta at the time told me. "The invasion was delayed two days so they could get the hell out. We were ordered to give the Indonesian military everything they wanted. I saw all the hard intelligence; the place was a free-fire zone. Women and children were herded into school buildings that were set alight - and all because we didn't want some little country being neutral or leftist at the United Nations."And all because western capital regarded Indonesia as a "prize"."
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