which is the gerald r ford presidential foundation the gerald r ford presidential library and museum american university school of public affairs, who has been with us from day one and the national archives records administration. and just a little aside, colleen, is the first woman archivist ever of the united states. so we're very proud of her. and it is due to no small effort on her behalf that the archives is flair's newest lifetime institute. additional member. the first lady's luncheon, which gleaves mentioned was since and so nice of her to come when she did not feel well and. susan, thank you for hosting. i have so many people to thank so i'm going to do it real short i'm not going to try make it like the oscars but i want thank sis and fort bass. i want to thank dr. shogun gleaves whitney rachel sing. well, they're wonderful partners. anita who is i call? her, my buddy and has just been with me every step the way and with glaze and rachel on this conference and all of the flair. there were seven women who actually conceived of this and are flair board and there are several b

gerald ford is a political role model of mine.s is talking about my own record of bipartisan solution oriented service, leadership me but also the future, which is going to clean cling to those traditions of the past. >> so, congresswoman, let's talk about the state of michigan. obviously, vice president harris, who i understand will be in your district in a couple of days, needs to win michigan. she is putting great emphasis on that date. we know it is incredibly close looking at polling. internal polling has a tide as well. what would be decisive, not just in your district, but in the state of michigan, what are vultures waiting to hear their? >> the path to the presidency truly does run through michigan . and it runs through west michigan as well. you increasingly cannot win statewide without waiting in west michigan, without winning in my district. the things that matter here are the things that matter at the kitchen table, the issues of economy, housing, affordable healthcare, and the issue of reproductive freedom. there is n

gerald ford and george w. bush and mitt romney were more establishment republican guys it.e are coming from. you are going to be called a fascist. >> steve: just what they're doing right now. we heard for the last year donald trump is a threat to democracy. and today she is going to say in texas donald trump is a threat to abortion rights. and it's going to be next week there is going to be another he is a threat to fill in the blank. that's just what it is variety now. >> the reality is voters hear all of that but they say wait, kamala harris and joe biden have been a threat to my safety and my security. kamala harris and joe biden have been a threat to my ability to make money. my ability to feed my family. the basics that i care about. they are a threat to women in girls sports being able to do it. there is a thousand different ways where common sense collides with this rhetoric of a threat to. so none of it lands. >> steve: we played a soundbite, hillary clinton talking a little bit about this weekend rally, this great big donald trump rally at madison square garden. ap

. >> mike ford, son of president gerald ford and jason carter, grandson of resident jimmy carter, discuss a peaceful transfer of power during a presidential election year. this was part of a conference held on elections at the university of she can afford school

they tried gerald ford, that worked for about 8 hours and then fell apart. it was nonsense really. jim baker said if elected, would you call ford mr. president, mr. vice president or mister vice president, mr. president. it fell apart and reagan was out of options, jack kemp was too younger. the one option i wish he had thought of was to go back to his 76 tour, dick schweikert, really good man, senator from pennsylvania, changed dramatically when he was reagan's running made in 76, he was a moderate republican the senator although he was great on captive nations, he was pro-life, pro-second amendment, he was weak on labor issues but that's understandable being from pennsylvania. he changed radically, he had become a very good conservative by 1980. with handford, dick allen and all those, and already tested and vetted and the good guy, wonderful family, no downside and helped unify the convention. >> an issue in new hampshire and detroit. to paul's question. bush gave a masterful speech at the reagan funeral, missus bush chose bush, wanted a president to speak at the reagan funeral,

goldwater, richard nixon, gerald ford, ronald reagan, george h.w.romney, for pete's same. scott walker. this is a go-to thing that seems to mean nothing except throw fear into the hearts of voters. >> a few things. i love "has been called." a lot of work. basic idea, look, liberals call republicans faschists all the time. fair is fair. not exactly wrong. i mean, it's true. i remember george w. bush call add fascist. and soul searching not just by people who use the term fascist also by the people called fascist but that aside, right? when you look at that grade up there, pretty important distinctions. for instance, a few important ways in which trump is different from all republicans before him. first and foremost unlike anybody else on that fox graphic, and maybe people forgotten this, donald trump incite add violent insurrection aguess the united nations to overturn and free and fair election and stay in power against the will of the people according to their votes. no one else has ever done that out on the campaign trail falsely claim ss the elec

that has been used once when president nixon resigned in 1974 in gerald ford became the president andwas nominated under the position of the 25th amendment nelson rockefeller who became the vice president through not a vote or not a popular vote but their abode of -- and there's one more amendment that plays a critical role in the election in almost every sphere of our life and that the 14th amendment. the so-called equal protections amendment but that's only when part of it. it has had a tremendous impact on the election system. for example the rule governing one-person, one-vote. so that is a reflection or an interpretation of the supreme court of the 14th amendment back in 1964. so it has had those types of effects on our election systems throughout the years and trying to make sure election districts each person's vote counted as his or her counterpart. there were two other parts of the 14th amendment that most people don't even know about. i didn't appreciate them either. they were adopted in response to the civil war circumstances but also over the post civil war circumstances b

the final poll estimated that gerald ford had a narrow 1% point lead.t turns out carter won by two-points but it is emblemmatic how it can take place closer. >> host: from thomas in florida for joseph campbell. >> caller: hi there, thank you very much for getting me on your line here. an interesting viewpoint. your viewers may be very interested in is a lot of people, most governmental officials and like the police, mostly, i realized - that's mostly what officials are running for offices are looking at also is don't rock the boat, keep things slow the way they are going. they don't realize that this idea of mankind of robots. >> host: we'll leave it there. when it comes to the size of polls, you talked a little bit about it where people responding to texts primarily and maybe not picking up their cell phones. >> certainly not their land line. >> host: for a pollster, that's maddening how you gather data. >> it is, it is time consuming and pollsters, i am not a pollster myself but pollsters do have a lot of impediments that they face in order to get a d

everybody remembers april 4th of 1968, six later when robert kennedy is killed and how gerald ford was shot with a tented assassination, and and george wallace, not many myers here, and within one.8, when it got inaugurated. being shot in this town. not just the violence aimed at political leaders, in 1979, and to disrupt the war. and treat people with respect, and wasn't easy to do and took some time. we are not tolerant of this, people would rather have a system to disagree with each other, >> i want to say one thing. and i'm disgusted by all of those things. we need to discourage violence from any sector, any ideology as an answer to disagreement and democracy. we need a leader who believes that. >> running out of time. i want us to try, what leadership it takes in terms of uniting the country in a moment like this. let's talk about this responsibly. there are two presidential candidates, but there's one who does actively incite violence as we saw on january 6th. if he is still captivating, one of two major parties in this country, do we have a shot at the sort of leadership or the

actually, the first time i met her, gerald ford was the brand new president swept in, not elected, but after watergate when president nixon resigned and that's when i arrived. nixon left on the south lawn and i came in the north lawn and we were in china with gerald ford and there was a day when some -- he sat in the hotel waiting for the phone call to go see mao, mao se tung and barbara came along on these trips and we were in a museum and those of us who cover the white house know how to tail the principal and how to get in close, and barbara wandered around and looked at things as we came out of the museum she went to the car with her camera crew and we stood at the door of the museum and we had a great interview with her. oh, yeah, she was today-- today show host at that point and it shows that during news reporting, cut forward to she has arrived at the abc news bureau to meet everybody and i happened to be up on the executive top floor in the loads ladies room and she came out, they don't have towels, can't they afford to have towels here, i'm not going to say the million dollar

arrived nixon looked on the south lawn, i'm came in on the north lawn and we were in china with gerald ford. there was a day -- mckee sat in the hotel waiting for that phone call but i went with the betty ford. she danced in the may 7 schools, who it to the great wall of china. barbara also came along on these trips. we were in a museum and those of us who cover the white house know how to tail the principal and how to get in close. barbara kind of wandered around and looked at things. as we came out of the museum she went to macarthur camera crew we stood at the doorway of the museum and got a great interview with her. she was the today show host at that point. cut forward to she has arrived at abc news bureau to meet everybody and i happen to be up upon the executive top floor and that lazy him. she came out and said counter beach towels here at the eye am not going to say salary is cut in short towel allotment. she had struggles every step of the way especially those early months and years. i realtor interviewing mest but you're one of the white house supporters and here comes big foot b

i came in on the north lawn, and we were in china with gerald ford. and there was a day when some he sat in the hotel waiting for for the phone call to go see mao mao tse-tung. but i went with betty ford to all these, you know, she danced at the seven schools. we went to the great wall of china. and barbara also came along on these trips and we were in a museum and those of us who cover the white house know kind of how to tell principal and how to get in close. and barbara kind of around and looked at things and as we came out of the museum she went to the car with her camera crew. but we stood at the doorway of the museum. and we got a great interview with her. and i thought, yeah, she's a today. she was today show host at that point. and it shows that doing, you know, news reporting cut forward to she has arrived at the abc news bureau to to meet everybody and happened to be up on the executive top floor in the ladies room and she came in years later came out and she she she came out she they don't have any towels. can't afford to have any towels her

the white house and that's when jimmy and gerald ford began talking.a lot of time and and so how much each one. well, they they thought similarly and and then betty i started working with betty and we developed a really wonderful relationship. mrs. carter, there are several first ladies still living. are is there a sorority of first ladies in a sense. well, i had a good relationship with betty ford and with lady bird. as long as she was alive. but that's about it. i don't think there's never been a real we see each other at the event and at the library dedication. so in the new what new first ladies. but there's never been that, uh, closeness that, that i had with betty ford and lady bird when you were first lady, you had a weekly luncheon with your husband and would attend cabinet meetings. what was the purpose of that? well, i had a luhe with jimmy. there were always things i wanted to ask and some of it was about the family and the finances and things that going on back home. um, but also talked about issues. it was, i would say it was more family a

so gerald ford pardoned richard and richard nixon had even been charged with anything. so that sort of stands as a piece of history to suggest that presidents can pardon people when they haven't even been charged with something. but not clear in the constitution. there's kinds of ambiguities, but there's this mythology that somehow the pardon power like that of king george, the third king pardons be conditioned in the same way. parole can be conditioned even they're not commutations or. yeah. so back to abraham lincoln's time, he conditioned pardons of confederate soldiers or people and participated in the civil war on behalf of the the confederacy. he conditioned those on taking an oath to that the national government in my book, john, who was white house counsel for richard nixon, writes the foreword and he talks about how he drafted a conditional pardon for a very high pardon, a jimmy hoffa gangster or teamster union organizer. ah, and that was later the conditional pardon by mr. claiming that that it was on he lost that. but that is also in our history now not expre

that was with gerald ford and hilary clinton in 2016.t the pretty long track record in one of the reasons why so close here we have a political parties i have a lot of split ticket voting in nevada a lot of voters tend to vote not just based off the part of the identify with, they also choose a personality, a specific issue they think with the candidate doing better with. you see a lot of split ticket voting in 2022 we saw a democrat when her election but we also saw republican joel embargo has been an incumbent for governor. that kind of shows how close it can be we are more dynamic. >> is one of the key issues that are animating voters in los angeles? is it the same as what you would expect nationally? >> a little n bit. i think the housing crisis we are more affected. we struggled withe the balancei think like 80% of nevada owned his a lot of processes that have to take place in order for those to be opened up for housing. we are little more affected by theff housing crisis in talking with voters here you will find they struggle to pa

and he when he finally stepped down as a running mate for, gerald ford, he said, i won't have anybody to argue with anymore. yeah. and then do you remember how he died all of a sudden having a heart attack in and i thought at his office and i when i saw the wire story, i went, oh, my god, because i really sad because i really liked him. but then realized he he died at like with his boots on. yeah it was a very soft story that he died in his office and he was supposedly working in his office at midnight and i knew him very pretty. he doesn't work at his office and i. well, you could read about you could draw your conclusion conclusion he is bad boy. so here you are. you're on the rise you know, you're not a third rate reporter anymore anymore, by the way, who told that one time that you were a third rate reporter? i think the current presidential. in one particular party, you're not the person who ever said that to you. no. no, no. i know you're talking about. uh, he we do have one thing in common. i'm. i'm balding, too, and i to do the comb over. but i'll tell you one other thing abou

carter's failed president gerald ford's failed presidency. richard nixon's failed president. so we had 70 horrible years where there was good news. it was all bad. and reagan reagan saw, this. and he said, look, i need to restore morale, because for the first time in history, in 1980, parents did not think they'd always thought every time, ever since been polled, parents always thought the future would be better for the children than had been for them until 1980, when that stopped. people not think that anymore. so the idea that joe biden is a great president is, just nonsense. it's poppycock. ridiculous. name one thing that he's been successful at other than spending money. and by way any more on can spend money. well, i also think that just you know reagan watched a few john travolta movies in the white house. i'm sorry. i think reagan. a few john travolta movies. yeah. he probably did. well, just to clear vulture, travolta was three. screen was no travolta. i really like him as an actor. i just said there's a joke. but travolta was a guest at, the reagan white house severa

gerald ford became the president, and he nominated under these provisions of the 25th amendment nelson rockefeller who became the vice president through not a vote but through -- not a a popular voe but through the vote of congress. there is one more amendment the plays a critical role in elections as it doesn't almost every sphere of her life, and that's 14th amendment. the so-called equal protection amendment but that is only one part, a part that is also well known and it is had all sorts of tremendous impact on our elections. so, for example, the rural governing one person, one vote that we should make our election districts as close as possible in terms of the population. that is a reflection or an interpretation of the supreme court of the 14th amendment back in 1964. so what has had those types of effects on our election system throughout the years. so trying to make sure that election districts and that these at each persons vote counts the same as his or her counterpart. but there are two other parts of the 14th amendment that most people don't even know about. i confess i did

carried michigan and pennsylvania in 1976 when jimmy carter won wisconsin and in pennsylvania and gerald ford carried his home state of michigan. one or two people in every precinct in wisconsin or michigan, or pennsylvania will be the difference, not just for the next four years. but for the next 40 years, democrats are seeking to convey urgency without panic just the thought of his reelection scare. >> you actually scares me quite a bit. i've actually applied for dual citizenship in ireland if it happens i'm thinking about moving. if he gets trump accepted the gop nomination and wisconsin and has returned again and again, kind of feels like 2016 you want in 2016, we wanted to thousand 16. brian schimming leads the wisconsin republican party and believes a trump comeback after falling short in 2020 could start here. they are in trouble in that blue wall and the blue wall is not built right? now for them, it's great to me in michigan democrats are stepping up their efforts in the final weeks warning against third-party candidates like jill stein fine with key to trump's 2016 wins in battlegro

you know, how much i raised to run against gerald ford 0. you know, how much i raise to run against ronald reagan 0. you know, how much will be raised this year by old presidential senate and house campaigns. $6000000000.00. that's 6000 millions. despite the seemingly never ending stream of donations towards the 2 uncontested american political parties, the quantity of allocations on those funds are questionable. the misuse. whether purposeful or not usually gets a run through at a lower level elections in 2018, georgia democratic gubernatorial candidates, stacy abram said that there had been systematic, deliberate, disenfranchisement for years in the state of georgia. do you think that there was deliberate interference in the election? yes, and i believe it began 8 years ago with the systematic disenfranchisement of more than a 1000000 voters. it continued with the under funding and this investment in polling places in training and in the management of the county delivery of services. and i think it had its pinnacle in this race, but few mo

that led gerald ford to be. so we think of these guys, on the one hand, as unimportant second fiddles, all the kinds of descriptions you want to make. but the fact is, it could be that one of them would emerge as president, and that makes a difference. yeah, it really is one heartbeat away. okay. what's the strategy for both men tomorrow night? are they playing offense? are they trying to win over swing votes or are they playing defense? basically, let's not rock the boat a little of each. there are two rules. when it comes to the vice president in a debate. one, do no harm. do nothing that will cause your leader, your your presidential nominee, to have to come back and cover up your stuff and undo it. that takes away valuable time at this time of the year. and the second thing is go after go after the other guy. you've got nothing to lose. go after, point out all the deficiencies, all the things he might have said. so for example, a walz will go ahead and say about vance, you know what about the eggs, the sorry

guest: i was recently at the gerald ford presidential museum in grand rapids, michigan, and president ford right after he was sworn in as president, one of the things he said that to some extent has been lost and i think was an important statement, was he said i believe the truth is the glue that holds government together. not only our american government but civilization itself. it seems to me that really for our constitutional system is predicated to a great extent on the premise that people tell the truth, and that was really an idea that president ford reiterated again and again and made similar statements when he testified in the vice presidential hearing before the house and senate. but so much of our lives depends upon a reliance that the people were dealing with are telling the truth. so the idea that candidates for political office would not tell the truth is one that ultimately is destructive of democracy and is threatening to civilization. part of the function of debates and campaigns is to call out the misstatements that are made and to try and correct the record. host: wh

today, john jeff zeleny for us, again michigan, where gerald from nebraska, born, but michigan gerald ford, michigan raised jeff zeleny. >> thank you so much all right. >> this morning, a texas death row inmates life spared for now, the legal battle. it stopped the execution and where the case goes next. and just in time for thanksgiving butter ball unveils a new way cook a turkey that says we'll solve the biggest problem for thanksgiving changed the face of american foreign policy how did we get here? america first of the reads of korea special sunday at 8:00 on cnn you found it the feeling of findings, psoriasis can't filter out the real you. so go ahead, live unfiltered with the one and only so tick to a once-daily pill well, for moderate to severe psoriasis, and the chance that clear or almost clear skin, it's like the feeling of finding yourself ready for your close-up are finding you don't have to hide your skin. just your background once-daily subject to was proven better getting more people well clear skin than the leading pill. don't take if you're allergic to so tick too serious

predecessor betty ford a close relationship that mirrored the one between their husbands jimmy carter and gerald ford and she'll talk about her legacy. very forward was my friend. and i'm honored to be here today to help celebrate the life of this truly remarkable woman. i never imagined when we first met forty years ago. that we would develop such a close personal friendship. at that time betty was the wife of the vice president of the united states. she had danced with the marthogram dance company and performed in carnegie hall. she was a leader in the fight for women's rights. and she had come to georgia with the michigan art train a project taking six cause filled with great art to rural communities across the country. jimmy was governor and we invited beta to stay at the governor's mansion. i was nervous. she was the most distinguished guest we had ever had. but when she arrived she was so warm and friendly that she immediately put me at ease and we had a good time together. of course, i didn't tell her then that my husband was thinking about running for president. the next time i met betty was

article talking about this, they are known for playing the nazi card, they did with goldwater, nixon, gerald fordronald reagan. >> brian: with paul ryan and mitt romney. around hillary clinton said there is too much evidence what he wants to do. what about what she has done at the border, with crime and at the grocery store? she and joe biden, prices are through the roof. >> lawrence: this is an attempt to shame voters and say you can't vote on the issues that matter to you because it is embarrassing, you would be spoe spo supporting the second coming of hitler. >> ainsley: we had four years with him, he was not a hitler. >> steve: there are 20,000 people standing up, wearing maga hats. >> brian: it was 16,000 and 5000 on the outside. >> ainsley: they have a safe space to wear some of those hats. >> brian: i think the maga hat is not a lightning like it has been. >> steve: it is 8:12 in new york city. aurora, colorado councilwoman is referring to tren de aragua. >> brian: that infamous venezuelan gang. they suggest some officials within the aurora police department knew about the migrant gang thr

when she was in elementary school, her father was deputy chief of staff of gerald ford. he moved up to white house chief of staff then read for congress in wyoming then vice president for the second president bush. liz cheney is more republican than anyone named trump ever could be, because no one in donald trump's family actually believes in anything. >> in 1976 when i was 10 years old and i was sailing envelopes for president ford's re- election campaign, i cast my first vote ever in 1984 for ronald reagan. i served in the state department in both bush administrations, and i served in the united states house of representatives for three terms, including as the third highest ranking republican in housley. -- house leadership. in other words, i was a republican even before donald trump started spray tanning. >> liz cheney went to the small town of wisconsin today for the republican party was born in the hope that what she had to say would be heard by republicans like her, who have never voted for a democrat in their lives. >> i know that our security and our freedom depe

gerald ford, the poet robert frost, and the future supreme court justice potter stewart, were all associated with the group isolationism was so popular that it even threatened fdr's reelection in 1940 requiring a somewhat misleading campaign promise your not going to be sent in any foreign war he had to know that wasn't true, but he knew he had to get reelected. >> so he went ahead and said that fdr won the election but around 80% of americans still remained opposed to entering the war all of that would change in a single day somebody, some 1941 a date which will live in information harbor transformed america overnight americans rallied around the flag going to war. the america first committee disbanded ii? >> the republican party was still thinking america first until a war hero forced the parties about face. >> that story the next car on carbonic already got pre-qualified in two minutes. i can customize my terms, say my car is getting delivered in a couple of days, delivered when we finance and buying a car with carbonic not today. >> okay. everyone mission is to provide complete balanced

the very first campaign that i ever volunteered in was for president gerald ford in 1976. ever since then, i have been voting for republicans. i've never voted for a democrat. the fact that i believe so strongly that in this election, in this election, we need to elect the person that is the responsible adult. [applause] there is a lot, both parties do it. there is a lot of vilification that goes on. i think that it is really important for people to think very carefully about the power that we will invest in the president of the united states and what it would mean to give that power to donald trump. don't take my word for who he is listen to them every day. look at what he did. remember that the people at the vice president said are opposing him are the people that know them best. the people that worked most closely with him. i would just say that i know that the vice president has had the range of experience, as vice president, as senator, as attorney general of california, supremely qualified to be president of the united states. i think that sometimes there are some me

i forgot to mention, gerald ford, his staff did not at all support bay ford on the e.r.a., but he asresident, like dick cheney would come and complained to him, he would say go talk to betty ford. very similar to what fdr first got criticized for eleanor roosevelt. she said racism is equivalent to fascism, he got a lot of criticism for being so outspoken, and he would always say go talk to my mrs.. so those are two examples of president who actually supported with their wives redoing by just saying i can't control my wife, so it will be defined a lot by the relationship and passion. >> i think context is important. the first first gentleman and is going to be a totally different position than any subsequent ones. and as we've seen from the very beginning, the evolution continues to take place, but the contact is also going to impact what they might choose to do. eleanor roosevelt was in a unique situation. you had a major depression, a world war, you have everything going on the south, a lynching, the jim crow laws, and eleanor pulled that altogether in a way that no one else could.

grand rapids, home of gerald ford, going there today. she is trying to create the structure to say, republicans, even if it's just this once, you can vote for a democrat. >> jonathan, you know, what is so interesting? this is tearing a page out of the obama playbook. you can sense that david plouffe is saying when they go to grand rapids, we will do what obama did in iowa and go to counties we are going to lose and instead of losing by 80%, we will loss 65%. you start adding these up and it makes a difference. the fact she is going to places like savannah and grand rapids, suggest this campaign nay, they may be saying behind the scenes, we don't know, this looks tough, but they are actually doing the obama strategy. they are expanding the map, whether it's in georgia or in michigan. it's a fascinating strategy. we will see if it works. >> tim walz was in wisconsin yesterday and harris goes a pretty leaning republican district in wisconsin this week, to that point. ed, the harris team, they got a plan but they do acknowledge it's going to

that was used once when president nixon resigned in 1970 four, gerald ford became the president and he nominated under these provisions of the 25th amendment nelson rockefeller who became the vice president through not a popular vote, but through the vote of congress. there is one more amendment that plays a critical role in elections as it does in almost every sphere of our life, the 14th amendment. the so-called equal protection amendment but that is only one part of it. that is the part that is well known and also has tremendous impacts on our election systems. for example, the rule governing one person, one vote that we should make our election districts as close as possible in terms of the population. that is a reflection or an interpretation of the supreme court of the 14th amendment back in 1964. so it has had those types of effects on our election system throughout the years. so trying to make sure election districts and that each person's vote counts the same as their counterparts. but there are two other parts of the 14th amendment that most people don't even know about. i co