gerald ford

#38 FACTS:

--Gerald Ford was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr--named after his father. His parents separated sixteen days after Ford's birth, and Ford was nearly three when his mother remarried and renamed him after his step-father, Gerald Rudolff Ford. Strange.

--Ford is the only U.S. President to not be elected as either President or Vice-President (he became Nixon's VP after Spiro Agnew resigned the position when he pleaded no contest to charges of tax evasion and money laundering, and became President after Nixon resigned due to the Watergate scandal).

--One of Ford's earliest acts as President was to pardon Richard Nixon for any crimes he might have committed while President, a move which pretty much cost him the election of 1976.

--Ford was the longest-lived U.S. President, his lifespan being 45 days longer than Ronald Reagan's. He was the third-longest-lived Vice President, falling short only of John Nance Garner, 98, and Levi P. Morton, 96. Ford had the second-longest post-presidency (29 years and 11 months) after Herbert Hoover (31 years and 7 months). At 29 months and 11 days, Ford's tenure in office was the least time of any 20th century President.

--Gerald Ford had a pair of tiny, vestigal wings on his back that he worked hard to conceal from others.