TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith, Richard Norton.
TI  - An ordinary man: the surprising life and historic presidency of Gerald R. Ford
SN  - 9780062684172
U1  - 973.925 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - An Imprint of Harper Collins
KW  - Biography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 777-783) and index
N2  - Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents, Smith recreates Ford’s hardscrabble childhood in Michigan, his early anti-establishment politics and lifelong love affair with the former Betty Bloomer, whose impact on American culture he predicted would outrank his own. As president, Ford guided the nation through its worst Constitutional crisis since the Civil War and broke the back of the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression—accomplishing both with little fanfare or credit (at least until 2001 when the JFK Library gave him its prestigious Profile in Courage Award in belated recognition of the Nixon pardon)
ER  -