against gerald ford. close to acclamation. by december of 1973 ford has moved the house of representatives becoming president of the senate for the vice president of the united states. he holds that position for eight months. then nixon, in august of 1974 himself resigns and ford becomes president of the unitedsi states. i like the image of the friendship magazine that promotes a new america. there is the new president seated and betty ross fashion. not making the american flag but mending the american flag. above him are two images 1948 congressional campaign. it's not just america who want to know more about theiror new president, it is the world want to know something about the new president of the united states. we'll go to the next slide, what we find out he was not born in michigan. he was not born gerald ford. he was leslie lynch king junior july 14 covid 1913. on the right side in the bed which he was born left side of the house in which he was born to his mother's father-in-law she had married le

also wrote the endorsement for gerald ford in the general election. also the other cities that are facing similar crises throughout new york city are watching a ford in this ration dealt with that. the challenge later in 75 the bicentennial celebrations of 1976. i want to leave with this, betty ford the famous picture her striking a dance post on the table cabinet room and a lot of people write about this makes considering betty ford in the administration she said the one disappointment she had when she was not able to get a woman in the supreme court. housing and urban development secretary with ford's cabinet. but i want to take a different take on this. she's an white house photographer, this was taken to generate 19 covid 1977, their last full day in the white house. what she is doing is she's taking a tour of the white house. she is meeting with the white house staff as many as she can find. thanking them for having made the white house her home. having welcomed her into the people's house over the past two and half years. and it recalls something

gerald ford attended south high.h school and south high. it is the first game of the season. south high kicks off in the dark uniforms in the late great uniforms. gerald ford's it's his junior ears playing here the film is good enough you can look at slide by slide, frame by frame find number 23 in it and ford would become the captain of the team's senior next year end allstate player they would turn the state championship. i'm going to come up here in just a minute. i'm going to freeze frame the only known footage of gerald ford playing high school football, just a minute you will see number 23 coming in from the right hand side. there is gerald ford number 23. >> watch the full program and the other presidency programs on our website c-span.org/history. >> i'm excited to be here live from the museum. for those who do not know me i have exhibitions here at the american revolution a bit on staff here since 2016. i served as one of the leaders of the project with a founding document 1776 do today. it's an exhibit that

gerald ford attended south high.h school and south high. it is the first game of the season. south high kicks off in the dark uniforms in the late great uniforms. gerald ford's it's his junior ears playing here the film is good enough you can look at slide by slide, frame by frame find number 23 in it and ford would become the captain of the team's senior next year end allstate player they would turn the state championship. i'm going to come up here in just a minute. i'm going to freeze frame the only known footage of gerald ford playing high school football, just a minute you will see number 23 coming in from the right hand side

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remember, with gerald ford, too, vietnam was not gerald ford's failure.y, escalated by lyndon johnson. richard nixon took it over and deepened the war, if not with troops with bombs. gerald ford was at the vend of of -- the very end of the failed war. the same is true for joe biden. joe biden has been advocating exiting afghanistan for the better part of a decade, so this will not be the dominant part of joe biden's legacy. >> picking up on what you were just saying, mark, he is certainly attempting to pass several social initiatives including voting rights and infrastructure bills. if joe biden is able to successfully sweep these measures through, do you think that it would approach the legacy of lyndon b. johnson and the great society? >> probably not, alex, but the comparison is hard to make. it was a very different washington when lyndon johnson held the presidency. bipartisanship was a natural part of the political process. that's not the case as we know in 2021. it won't be the case for the balance of joe biden's presidency. by the same token, alex,

i was there for gerald ford's dog liberty who i think got one of the first splashes into the gerald ford pool -- >> and liberty's puppies, of course. [laughter] >> but dogs and some cats were -- and i think some of the kids had a gerbil or two. but that also shows how the white house, although it's a tribute to the glory of the united states, it's the centerpiece of our civic society, it's also a home. do you think, well, do you have any favorite pets back in the archives of presidential history? >> oh, absolutely. so putting aside the dogs and the cats for the purposes of this, i would, well, i should confess before i say anything else, i'm originally from the state of wisconsin k if i'm a little biased because of that. but my personal favorite presidential pet of all time was a dairy cow named paulene wayne, also probably the greatest pet name in all of presidential history that was also the proud pet of president taft. and paulene wayne grazed on the white house grounds as well as the grounds of thizingen press. she never really said much. but she, it was a good time. everybody liked

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gerald ford attended south high.ford playing high school football. just a minute, you will see number 23 coming in from the right-hand side. slow it down. and there he is. there's junior ford, number 23. >> watch the full program and other the presidency programs on our website, c-span.org/history. >> next on american history tv, a look at the challenges the international ladies garment workers union faced fighting for worker rights and the role of minority women in the garment industry. >>> good evening, everyo

gerald ford attended south high. he received 19209 the football match between ottawa high school and south high. it is the first game of the season. south high kicks off in the dark uniforms in the late great uniforms. gerald ford's it's his junior ears playing here the film is good enough you can look at slide by slide, frame by frame find number 23 in it and ford would become the captain of the team's senior next year end allstate player they would turn the state championship. i'm going to come up here in just a minute. i'm going to freeze frame the only known footage of gerald ford playing high school football, just a minute you will see number 23 coming in from the right hand side. there is gerald ford number 23. >> watch the full program and the other presidency programs on our website c-span.org/history. >> i'm excited to be here live from the museum. for those who do not know me i have exhibitions here at the american revolution a bit on staff here since 2016. i served as one of the leaders of the project with

i mean, chevy chase and the 1st season or do, he would do basically make fun of gerald ford because gerald ford was kind of a guy who would kind of fumble around it, and cherry chases, hoping he'd be fumbling and smashing stuff over. and they made fun of every president on that show. they made fun of carter, they made part of board. they made fun of reagan. i didn't matter the political party, you're supposed to do that and it's, it's, they now because, you know, you can't to make fun of this. you can't make fun of that. no, i make fun of the most powerful person in the world, especially when you know this particular president is showing he's got cognitive decline and and it's kind of saying that like folks like rod and myself can just also prove corporate media. right. i've done that real time, i've just gone to a search engine and said, here's the actual facts and showed a clip from corporate media, how they're just not being honest with you. and i went and found the truth online. i don't like, so does the corporate media, do they not have internet like what, what, what is the problem? i

next a look back at gerald ford, the only white house occupant never to have been elected either vicesident. he took office on august the ninth covid 1974 after president nixon's resignation. gerald r ford, presidential museum curator donald holloway uses archival photographs and film to talk about his life and presidency. >> our featured speaker today is donald holloway. donald is the

if gerald ford had been elected in his own right, he would've come up against all of the economic and foreign policy problems that jimmy carter had to deal with. perhaps, that would've helped power a democratic victory in 1980. that's a game anybody can play. but i could see that happening as much as the eventual election of ronald reagan in 1980. >> i'll mention something that might shed some light on. it chase baker who worked for bush, reagan, and bush. again said that it was his thought, and he said this to reagan won reagan was in the white house, he said, if reagan had not challenged forward in 76, then ford might well have won the 76 election. and if he had, then reagan never would've been president. because if a republican had won in 76, let's say it is ford, ford would not have been -- the incumbent would have not been challenged by another republican. so they had to wait until 1984, by which time he would've been too old to run for president, reagan. so that's chase baker's take on that question. next question. >> my question is, this you have an address the media yet. the c

the presidency feature to programs on gerald ford, the only white house occupant who was never elected vice president or president. first, a visit to the ford presidential museum. looking back on the 30th president. then a profile of his wife, first lady betty ford, who was honored for her life's work. featured speakers include landscape historian and author and former first daughter. at 9:25 p.m. eastern, they talk about the -- strategies and tactics of suffragists to win the vote for women and how they are relevant today. book tv features leading authors assessing their latest nonfiction books. on sunday, live at noon eastern on in-depth, offer -- other cheryl twain joins us for live discussion talking about critical race theory, the 6019 project, immigration and her most recent book, black eye for america. at 11:00 eastern, in his book the afghanistan paper's, to examine exam as -- america's 20 year war. watch american history tv and book tv every weekend on c-span two and find the full schedule on your program died or visit c-span.org. -- program guide or visit c-span.org. >> secre

>> my sense is that it would have delayed it in that you recall ronald reagan opposed gerald ford inublican primaries and convention of 1976, came very, very close, and it was clear that the functional majority of that convention wanted ronald reagan and would have him as indeed they did. so i tend to think it would have been a delay given the cycles of american politics if gerald ford had been elected in his own right he would have come up against all of the economic and foreign policy problems that hit jimmy carter during the late '70s and perhaps that would have helped power a democratic victory in 1980. it's a game anybody can play, but i could see that happening as much as the eventual election of ronald reagan in 1980. >> i will mention something that might shed a little bit of light on t james baker who worked for george bush and worked for ronald reagan and worked for george bush again said that it was his thought and he said this to reagan when reagan was in the white house, he said that if reagan had not challenged ford in '76 then ford might well have won the '76 election.

paul: so who were the two presidents ahead worse pulling, what is donald trump was the other gerald ford pretty. >> no cordova slightly better than this, it was bill clinton who immediately ran into some trouble in his first nine months predict. paul: all right, so stepping back and you mentioned a couple of factors just like in afghanistan and so on. most of the big picture here if you look at his seem to have fallen considerably and i wonder if some of that is related to the perception that joe biden when the white house promising to be a moderate and promised to govern from the middle and promised to be a unifying force needed a look agenda, and a lot of his rhetoric has been really quite to the left. and for tingly on the tax and spending and even on a lot of the social issues where he is adopted the systemic racism line and polarized along racial and ethnic lines and how much of that is hurting his poll numbers. carl: and he is a considerable amount if you take a look at some of the issues you mentioned to come on your break down in opinion among democrats and vince and rob about th

here is some of the chaos that happened just in the two days before gerald ford gave that speech while 7,000 people a day were being flown out of the air base. south vietnam's president thieu resigned from office, handing over the office to the vice president. he gave a two-hour resignation speech attacking the united states government that had been propping him up for years. the completely oblivious said he believed president thieu's resignation would lead to a negotiation with north vietnam that would save saigon, then the capitol of vietnam, save saigon from attack. president forward mentioned none of that. the third president that week, president minh tried to achieve a cease-fire but the air base was bombed by north vietnamese pilots, rocket attacks on the airport followed in which u.s. marines charles mcmahon and darwin judge were killed, becoming the last two americans killed in combat in vietnam, their bodies were left in the hospital in saigon by mistake. president forward did not say one word about their deaths, not one word. because the americans couldn't use the airport any

only known footage of gerald ford playing high school football, just a minute you will see number 23 coming in from the right hand side. there is gerald ford number 23. >> watch the full program and the other presidency programs on our website c-span.org/history. >> i'm excited to be here live from the museum. for those who do not know me i have exhibitions here at the american revolution a bit on staff here since 2016. i served as one of the leaders of the project with a founding document 1776 do today. it's an exhibit that brings together historic flags and documents on loan from private collections. and it tells the story of changing and growing american nation. tonight i will be joined by doctor james from arizona state university. i am a really excited have jim join me. i would like to have jim say a few words about himself. and about his career and how he became a young constitutional history scholar. so jim talked a little bit about yourself for. >> thanks matt. it's a pleasure to be with you and all of you out there, like matt said, i'm currently a lecturer at arizona state u

two programs on gerald ford, the old white house occupant who was never elected vice president or presidentt to the ford presidential museum looking back on the 38th president through photographs and film. then a profile of his wife who was honored for her life's work. featured speakers include a landscape historian, jonathan pliska and susan ford bales. the suffragist playbook looks at strategies to win the vote for women. >>> book tv features authors discussing their latest non-fiction books. sunday, live at noon eastern, carol swayne, former vanderbilt university professor, joins us for a live discussion talking about critical race theory, the 1619 project, immigration and her book. at 11:00 p.m. eastern, "the washington post" craig whitlock examined america's 20-year war in afghanistan. find a full schedule on your program guide or visit c-span.org. >>> expectations for women on the home front and work women performed in the military. >> it's good to see everybody today. i appreciate you coming to our space. we will talk about american women and world war ii. this is obviously a huge to

next a look back at gerald ford, the only white house occupant never to have been elected either vicesident. he took office on august the ninth covid 1974 after president nixon's

i am gerald ford in the cover up let alone allen dulles of the ca who was sacked by the government. jen kennedy. it's a disgrace to. first of all, that lyndon johnson appointed allen dulles, who was fired by kennedy as the chief of the cia kennedy, vowing to shatter the ca into a 1000 pieces. dollars was put on the board with the warren commission at 7 people in control that a lot of it controlled all the information coming from the cia to the board, making sure that nothing derogatory or anything about assassinations abroad was mentioned to these other commissioners. that is a big, big difference maker right there. and top of that, lyndon johnson has to be looked at as part of a cover up. that's not to say he was in the assassination because he can prove that . but lyndon johnson was about to be fired as vice president, that we know, and he wanted this thing to go away. he didn't, he said, we don't want to war with russia. we don't want to accuse russia that was kind of an excuse to, to a point and a point, the warren commission, they wanted a peaceful transition. that's what they, tha

i believe the secretary front place is the cheapest, stafford gerald ford. she's been fighting to unshackled the presidency as i was mentioning earlier, throughout a whole career. i mean, dick cheney as his protege, not the other way around. people forget that. he represents a strand of american conservatism that when hyper imperialist in the most old school cent and was sort of on college attic about it. and he was a disaster for us politics for the pentagon and for the world and his ill should be rejected horribly. and emphatically, but instead in the polite circles where they go to the same schools and cocktail party, country clubs and their kids go to after school programs together at the club. you see as a club, northern virginia is a club and i think that drives some of the polite, you know, media memory. the, i think that clause, war dimension comes through in, in your history very, very powerfully. but if anyone thinks is all about foreign policy, you say in the book, american imperialism comes home, often, poisoning any hope for meaningful democracy

no, joshua, when, when gerald ford was president, he witnessed the evacuation of saigon. he, his poll numbers dropped to me as a result, but months later, they lifted up again. i just have to wonder how much it's baked in here. you know, there's a big debate about how the u. s. should proceed and interact with the taliban. how. what would be a realist way of doing it? okay. not a partisan one, not to score points again. this guy or that party. what would be a real list policy in dealing with the present status quo in afghanistan? go ahead. well, it's quite clear that this new government wants to engage with america. they do not want the enmity of america. america still has leverage. we are holding that $10000000000.00 are there. they're there. there are an exchange account with a lot of aid is america can turn offer on much of the foreign aid and the attitude of europe towards afghanistan. so we hold some cards, but we have to do that realistically. we're not going to overturn this government. we're not going to shape the government in the future. this is going to be a ta

professor at stanford and i met a man at stanford who was the national security advisor to president gerald ford and was -- would become the national security advisor to george w. h. bush. he took an interest in my career and when president george w. h bush was elected he took me with him to the white house soviet specialist at the end the cold war, doesn't get much better than that, but the is seconds lesson is find people who are interested in you and your career who can help to guide you and open up opportunities. we sometimes say i want to get there on my own. nobody get there's absolutely on their own. there are always mentors. there's another important lesson. sometimes we say you have to have role models and mentors who look like you, if i had been waited for a black woman soviet special mentor i would still be waiting. so your mentors and role models can come in any color, shape or size, just find somebody who really cares about you and your career. and the final part of that story is that when in 1990 randal goforth mikhail gorbecev were in marine one. and i thought i'm glad i changed m

and in a seminar at stanford, i met a man who had been the national security adviser to president gerald ford and would become the national security adviser to george h.w. bush. he took an interest in my career and when george h.w. bush was elected, he took me with him to be the white house soviet specialist and i was fortunate to be that at the end of the cold war. doesn't get much better than that. and the second lesson is find people interested in you and your career. we sometimes say we want to get there on our own. nobody gets there absolutely on their own. there's always mentors. and sometimes we say you have to have role models and mentors who look like you. if i had been waiting for a black woman soviet specialist mentor, i would still be waiting. so, your mentors, role models can come in any color, shape, and size. just find somebody who really cares about you and your career. the final part of that story is that when, in 1990, came to the white house and we were sitting together on the lawn of the white house and i thought i'm really glad i changed my major. if you find your passion

it was dwight houston who appointed to the supreme court, it was richard nixon, and gerald ford who govern largely from the center, it was ronald reagan who was the icon of the right. and yet federal spending rose. deficits were normalized. i love the sudden deficit hawks that emerged when they just don't want to spend money. so when somebody else's idea for money, the georgia accept view bush's except for this. george w. bush did not get nominated today by the republican party, not by the stand of immigration. and i think that the republican party broadly put has been in flight from fact and reason partly out of a frustration that the leader they sent to washington did not deliver on what they often campaigned on. and so that created a level of distrust and trump exasperated, and deepened it. none of those folks with the possible of section of richard nixon, although one richard nixon resigned he went home and didn't continue pressing. what separates the past from the president is this notion that you can simply change the rules you don't like. and you can tell a lie, and that that lie wi

today on our weekly series is, "the presidency," it's a look at and life and work of president gerald fordllowed by an event honoring first lady betty ford. and lou sin a da -- lucinda robb details how suffragists won the vote is. find the full schedule in your program guide or by visiting c-span.org/history. and now it's time for lectures in history, an opportunity to join students in college classrooms on topics ranging from the american revolution to 9/11. this week, indiana university-bloomington professor stephen

proximity of power probably started for you when your husband, dick cheney, became chief of staff to gerald ford. >> and i didn't see him for two years. >> is that right? >> that's just the way it is but i was so interested in what he was doing that he learned to come home tonight and tell me what he had done all day. so that's a really fascinating inside look. you and i were joking before, if you are the president of the united states, you are called potus. if you are the first lady of the united states, you are called flotus, first lady of the united states. if you are the wife of the vice president, you are called slotus. and my family had an enormously good time with that, i had to finally shut it off before they did it in public. we'll have you attempted to turn it into a twitter handle? >> i don't think that i really feel comfortable with twitter, i'm always afraid i would send something i don't know i sent and that's not a good idea. >> good point. that's right. so carl, you have been in an enormously powerful position the white house, and i have to ask both of you, if you don't mind, i t