michigan nice, was built into jerry ford. it wasn't the water he drank, it wasn't the religion he had, it wasn't just his wonderful parents. it was the fact that he grew up in a community that cares, and judging by the numbers here, people still care in our generation. we have to look at it generations that are still out there. i watched elizabeth holtzman. some things never change. makes you want to drain the swamp even more, you think back on those days. what you have here is a man who meant something to all of us, and the principles, and it might have cost him the 1976 election. i was asked by ron wyden to tell you this quick story of when ford was in pittsburgh. the riots were beginning. demonstrations at the white house. betty was home alone. he was in pittsburgh on a monday. i got a phone call from the white house doctor, who said, "can i talk to you?" "yes, sir." "the president wants you to do him a favor. i want you to fly to washington and spend the evening with mrs. ford. she is alone at the white house. there is a

. >> he's in grand rapids picky fighting a book about jerry ford. >> i'm looking forward to seeing him. >> i am thrilled. >> thank you very much. thank you, al. >> i have all the others. >> let's talk. maybe we will have lunch next week. i'll be in and out. you are not giving up the world series for me, are you? >> no, absolutely not. [inaudible] >> it's the yankees -- if the yankees were in the world series. >> that's what i thought. >> if you wouldn't mind, gift, unknown. >> you want me to just sign one? >> you have no idea how valuable that is going to be. >> that's what you tell me every couple of years. you don't want the date? just sign it? >> yeah. wonderful. >> it's starting to fade. >> he knows that date. >> we had a couple of the treasures for you. we don't have them with us though. we will see you over at the house. you'll like them. >> i was just pointing out something the other day to mitch because i've a couple of things from -- [inaudible] one is the calendar we gave you last you. then there was another one. it's a plaque i gave you that's hanging out. >> we will have so

jerry ford probably would be very meat and potatoes when there was a legislative issue or something but he wouldn't be. ronald reagan, will get into that more later but he was a communications natural and early in life was in at the very beginning of several communication epics. radio, as a factor for the first time. television "after words" and of course hollywood was a unifying social factor. i think they would all learn how to do it and know what they were doing was with effectiveness and style. carter was skeptical of communications as artifice and not wanting to seem like he was using too much rhetoric or trickery, what do you think he would've made of social media. >> remember he was a [inaudible] and he gained the office of the presidency by basically going out into the grassroots and winning in iowa and all these other places that you can so i think he would've been embraced that part of it as a useful tool but would he have been good at it? i don't know. he wasn't very good at speeches. he didn't like to give speeches and he especially didn't like speech writers. [laughter] he

jerry ford probably just, it would be just very meat and potatoes winter what a legislative measure something but he wouldn't be singing people. and while reagan, that would be gotten into more later but reagan was a communications of natural. early in life was in at the very beginning of several communication ethics. radio as a factor for the first time. television afterwards and, of course, hollywood as a unifying social factor. i think they would all learn how to do it, and know what you're doing with very effectiveness with their terms of style. >> bob, carter was skeptical of two medications as artifice and not willing to seem like he was using too much rhetoric or rhetorical trickery. what do you think he would've made of social media? >> remover, it was an insurgent candidate and he gained the office of the presidency by basically going out into the grassroots and winning in iowa and remember -- winning in all these other places he wasn't supposed to win. i think he would've embraced that part of it as a useful tool. now, what he'd been good at it? i don't know picky was a very good at

you can understand, the young men we were talking earlier on, john kennedy and jerry ford and the oneseated america first. they did not know they were going to be as great generation in a couple of years, they did not know what was going to happen to them. they did not know what was going to happen in the extermination camps in poland. from their point of view at that point they thought they were doing the right thing. i think is really important to people to keep them on one reads about what happened and another example is people saying about occupied europe. and france and poland, people did not resist enough. there is a myth about widespread resistance. and it is ms because most people in those countries did not resist. and why didn't they? were they corroborated? if i were there i would have resisted. well, hello! quite frankly, i think you had to have lived in one of those countries before you can say that. you cannot pass judgment on something that happened 60 or 70 years ago under circumstances that you cannot possibly imagine how perfect they were. so one has to guard against t