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Gerald Ford's Presidency

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President Ford was an okay president because he had the right idea of what he wanted to do. Ford 's presidency, then, was marked by three elements. First, Ford faced extraordinary challenges, especially involving the nation 's economic woes, which he struggled to solve. Second, Ford had difficulty navigating a demanding political environment in which Democrats (from across the ideological spectrum) and conservative Republicans found fault with his leadership and his foreign and domestic policies. The combination of these first two elements helped bring about Ford 's defeat in 1976. Just as surely, though, a third dimension of Ford 's presidency deserves recognition: Americans, by and large, believed that Gerald Ford was an innately decent and
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