Gerald R. Ford
Brinkley, Douglas G. / Schlesinger, Arthur Meier Jr.![Gerald R. Ford](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/273/2739114/CHSBZCOP032739114.jpg)
The accidental president whose innate decency and steady hand restored the presidency after its greatest crisis When Gerald R. Ford entered the White House in August 1974, he inherited a presidency tarnished by the Watergate scandal, the economy was in a recession, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close, and he had taken office without having been elected. Most observers gave him little chance of success, especially after he pardoned Richard N...