President Ford Dead

American Voices

December 27, 2006 | ISSUE 42•52

President Gerald Ford, our nation's 38th President, died Tuesday at the age of 93 at his desert home in California. What do you think?

Whomever it is we're talking about will live on — as long as we keep him in our memories.

Leslie Drayton
Housepainter
Every time you wrote the man's obituary, he'd pull through another few years. Then you'd have to go and update it. Classic Ford.

Andrew Woolfolk
Systems Analyst
When they're carrying him out in the coffin, in front of the press, I think it would be funny if they 'accidentally' drop him down the stairs.

Sherry Scott
Surveyor

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