cryptogon.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
No problem… Via: Washington Post: Exclusive: Gerald Ford, JFK and the FBI Two members of the Warren Commission were initially not convinced that President John F. Kennedy had been shot from the sixth floor window of the Texas Book Depository, according to confidential FBI files released this week to The Post’s Joe Stephens. The files detail the inner workings [...]
2008 Presidential Campaign Blog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
President Gerald R. Ford's Remarks in Kansas City Upon Accepting the 1976 Republican Presidential Nomination on August 19, 1976. "Mr. Chairman, delegates and alternates to this Republican Convention: I am honored by your nomination, and I accept it with pride,...
BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
I, too, have asked BJ Lawson why he's running as a Republican and received the same answer you did. Only I think that it's a perfectly valid and honorable answer. When I think about honorable Republicans in my lifetime, I think of Earl Warren, Dwight Eisenhower, even Gerald Ford, people who are a lot closer to Lawson than, say, Jesse Helms or John McCain. I'm a yellow dog dem who will vote for David...
The Moderate Voice (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Ben Stein, droll Renaissance man, said in a recent piece in the New York Times that he doesn’t like paying taxes . But the lawyer, actor, and one-time speech writer for two presidents (Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford) is unimpressed with the supply side economics of the two most recent two-term GOP presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. He’s also unimpressed that presumptive Republican nominee...
Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
February 1975. Gerald Ford was in office. The Vietnam War was winding down. We had yet to witness the heroics of Carlton Fisk in game six of the ‘75 World Series. America was preparing to celebrate the bicentennial and Led Zeppelin were the undisputed kings of the world. After releasing Zeppelin I-IV, Houses Of The [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Last night one of the true titans in Iowa, Marvin Pomerantz passed away. His passing creates a huge void which man never truly be filled. Just look below: 1976 – Iowa Campaign Manager for Gerald Ford 1977 – Chairman of the Republican Party of [...]
Obama HQ (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
John in St. Louis, Missouri didn’t just normally vote for Republicans – he used to work for them. "The last Democrat I voted for was John F. Kennedy in 1960," he says. Since then, John served three Republican presidents in the White House – Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and the first George Bush. But John went to an Obama rally in St. Louis a few months ago and realized it was time for change. When...
State Journal Featured Content (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
The election of 1976 is being restaged with Barack Obama as Jimmy Carter and John McCain as Gerald Ford.
Somervell County Salon (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
A newly released memorandum provides more details about Ford's role as the FBI's informant. DeLoach wrote on Dec. 17, 1963, to outline what Ford told him in the congressman's office about the commission meeting the day before. ".......
The Club for Growth (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The Associated Press has the details . HT: Steve Bartin
Walled-In Pond (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Apparently, pretty much throughout his whole career, former football-player, stumblebum, and pardonner of Tricky Dick Nixon, Gerald Ford was an active stooge and flunky for J. Edgar Hoover. From AP, via RawStory : Former President Ford secretly advised the FBI that two of his fellow members on the Warren Commission doubted the FBI's conclusion that John F. Kennedy was shot from the sixth floor of...
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
WASHINGTON - Former President Gerald Ford secretly advised the FBI that two of his fellow members on the Warren Commission doubted the FBI's conclusion that John F. Kennedy was shot from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, according to newly released records from Ford's FBI files.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
WASHINGTON | Then-congressman Gerald Ford secretly advised the FBI that two fellow members on the Warren Commission had doubts regarding the John F. Kennedy assassination case, according to newly released records.
The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
It's long been known that Gerald Ford was an FBI spy and manipulator within the Warren Commission, and even altered the location of one of JFK's wounds in the final report to make the lone-nut theory less ridiculous. That is...
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
By Johanna Neuman Los Angeles Times 8-6-08 Dick Cheney was an assistant at the White House when Watergate was unfolding. By the time the scandal forced Richard Nixon to resign the presidency in 1974, the young Wyoming Republican had returned to the private sector. The new president, Gerald Ford, called him back. Cheney became deputy to Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld, seen here on right when the two...
