Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born July 14, 1913) (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., renamed after his mother's remarriage) was the fortieth (1973–1974) Vice President and the thirty-eighth (1974–1977) President of the United States. He remains the only individual to serve as President without ever having been elected to either the presidency or vice presidency. Instead, following the resignation of Spiro Agnew in 1973, he was nominated as Vice President by Richard Nixon and approved by both houses of Congress (not just the Senate, as is the procedure for Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, and most other federal officials), in keeping with provisions of the 25th Amendment. When Nixon resigned on noon of August 9, 1974, Ford assumed the presidency.

Further reading

• Cannon, James. Time and Chance: Gerald R. Ford's Appointment with History. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
• Casserly, John J. The Ford White House: Diary of a Speechwriter. Boulder, CO: Colorado Associated University Press, 1977.
• Congressional Quarterly, Inc. President Ford: The Man and His Record. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1974.
• Congressional Quarterly, Inc. Presidency. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1974-1976.
• Coyne, John R. Fall in and Cheer. New York: Doubleday, 1979.
• Ford, Betty. The Times of My Life. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
• Ford, Gerald R. Selected Speeches. Arlington, VA: R.W. Beatty, 1973.
• Ford, Gerald R. A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
• The Ford Presidency: Twenty-Two Intimate Perspectives of Gerald Ford, Edited by Kenneth W. Thompson. Portraits of American Presidents, VII. Lanham, MA: University Press of America, 1988.
• Gerald R. Ford: Presidential Perspectives from the National Archives. Washington, DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, 1994.
• Gerald R. Ford and the Politics of Post-Watergate America, edited by Bernard J. Firestone and Alexej Ugrinsky. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.
• Greene, John Robert. The Limits of Power: The Nixon and Ford Administrations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
• Greene, John Robert. The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995.
• Hartmann, Robert T. Palace Politics: An Insider's Account of the Ford Years. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980.
• Hersey, John. The President: A Minute-by-Minute Account of a Week in the Life of Gerald Ford. New York: Knopf, 1975.
• Hyland, William. Mortal Rivals: Superpower Relations From Nixon to Reagan. New York: Random House, 1987.
• Kissinger, Henry A., Years of Renewal. [Dr. Kissinger's memoir of foreign policy decisions during his tenure as Secretary of State under Ford, including the Cyprus incident, the fall of Saigon, movement to an Egypt-Israeli peace agreement, Strategic Arms talks with the Soviet Union, and efforts to end fighting in Rhodesia.