Barrett was Ford’s military attaché, carrying the briefcase always within reach of the president. It was dubbed the political football with codes to unleash nuclear weapons that could destroy the ...

Interestingly enough, however, Gerald Ford, a Republican from Michigan who became president 50 years ago Friday, offered some thoughts after he left office about women winning the White House.

Historian Douglas Brinkley looks at how President Ford's welcoming of tens of thousands of South Vietnamese refugees after Saigon fell reflected America's history, diversity and compassion.

Born: July 14, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska... Gerald Ford, who had never entered a national election, succeeded to both the vice presidency and the presidency without having received a single vote.

If someone could have stopped him, they probably would have. Those who were there for President Gerald Ford’s tamale-eating faux pas during an Alamo City campaign stop 49 years ago say no one ...

Bob Barrett began his association with Gerald Ford in 1974 when he became his Army presidential military aide and ended 50 years later with a personal memoir, “Inside the President’s Team ...

In 1975, despite anti-immigrant sentiment among many, President Gerald Ford welcomed tens of thousands of South Vietnamese refugees to the U.S. after Saigon fell to communist forces. Presidential ...