rock feller to the oval office by pointing the chair behind his desk and asking rocky, can you see gerry forditting in this chair? by the withdraw, i don't know that nixon said it. if he did, he wasn't putting down ford, he was butterrerring up nelson rockefeller. bashed the summer heat, again, the conversation -- [inaudible] on crown drive in alexandria turned to speculation about gerald ford's future. appealer on william f. buckley's firing line on june 28th, ford maintained that there were at that time unsufficient votes in the house to impeach the president. but, buckley pressed him, what if nixon were to defy the supreme court decision requiring himm to reveal his -- to the potential prosecutor? then, ford replied, it's a totally different ball game. it then becomes an institutional conflict. responding to reporters' inquiry, the vice president went out of his way to reject white house press secretary ron ziegler's characterization of the house judiciary committee as a kangaroo court. away from the cameras, his feelings were deeply conflicted. in mid july ford returned briefly to grand r

if you go upstairs that is one of the beautiful things about gerry ford is every weakness, everything that showed a vulnerability it's up there in that museum. when his cabinet and the people around him would say why would you have these expressions of your weakness there? he would always say because history matters. people need to know the truth. we are fallible. president carter of course would take advantage of that. but let's just say for the record, as a little sidebar here governor carter would take advantage of that. president ford had recentlyy ben to the vatican and met with pope paul the sixth it also been behind then iron curtain countries he had spoken to people impacted by the soviet empire. what he meant to say, can you still hear me? okay we are having a mike issue. all right thank you. what he meant to say was there is no spiritual domination of the soviet empire over eastern european and of course he was vindicated by at 79,ha 80, 81 gd solidarity you had people at the beginning of the velvet revolution this is something page could speak to because she was in prague i

occasion to suggest to the president that griffin probably was put up to this by someone, probably gerry ford's friends. and, of course, he was put up to it by al haig, which is one reason why when you read haig's memoirs, and/or more than one of them, you have to read all of them and you have to read a whole lot more and you have to bring bob hartman levels of skepticism, because haig sometimes doctor dick's himself. there was a second meeting on the afternoon of august 1. ford had left the first meeting, one remember bob hartman had sat in one it edison is forgot to s office on the capitol the phone rang.e it was al haig calling him, , i want to see you again alone. at around 3:00 that afternoon haig reappears, and even now haig is convinced that hartman is hiding behind at a quarter screen in office. well, he wasn't. but that does begin to suggest the loves of paranoia. by the way, it was equal opportunity paranoia. bob hartman was so convinced that the vice presidential offices were bugged that any meeting of any significance that he had or any kind of confidential information that he was p

and there are three places where governor carter, now-president carter, speaks about his friend gerry ford. and one of the most famous, of course, is on january 20th, 1977, when president carter has been sworn in and he's now giving his inaugural address. and one ofof the first things he does is he says i want to thank my predecessor, president ford, for doing so much to heal our land. he stopped his inaugural address upstairs. he stops, he pivots, president ford stands, they shake hands. one of the most beautiful moments in our lifetime. the president ford -- former president ford thankss him, sits back down, and you can see carter sort of collecting himself. now fast forward to 2007. fast forward to the moment when president carter is giving the eulogy for his friend, and president carter at sort of the climax of the eulogy says i cannot think of a better way to talk about my friend gerry than to repeat the words that i repeated so many decades ago. i want to thank, carter clutches, you can tell he's fighting. he says iwa want to thank my friend for doing all he did to heal our land. thi