Wednesday, December 27, 2006
On Gerald Ford
I had the opportunity to meet President Gerald Ford in 1993. Ford visited Middle Tennessee State University - not too long after Bill Clinton was inaugurated - to discuss the presidency, the Soviet Union's implosion, and the coming New World Order. (Remember when the foreign policy debate was dominated by discussions of what to do with the "peace dividend?" That debate should have ended a few months later when the World Trade Center was bombed; but, alas, such was not to be.) As a member of the state College Republicans leadership, I was afforded the opportunity to meet with the former president for a short time following his speech. He was gracious and funny, and he asked more questions than he answered. Indeed, he seemed more interested in hearing what we students and dignitaries had to say about world events than he was in hearing himself pontificate on the issues of the day. It's hard for me to imagine, say, Bill Clinton or St. Jimmy Carter behaving in a similar fashion.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Wednesday, December 27, 2006 
