The oldest former US president, has died. RIP

 

national day of mourning coming up

 

My wife and I were eating breakfast at our hotel in Nairobi when we saw the newspaper headline: "Nixon breaks down as Ford takes over." We spent that summer in Europe in a VW camper and a month in East Africa. We hadn't followed the news back home at all and it came as a total shock.

 

On the day that we got married in 1985 my wifes aunt was having a a small dinner party at her home and Gerry Ford was the guest of honor. We were invited but decided to start our honeymoon that night instead. Later we kind of wished we'd started our honeymoon with the offered dinner with a President. ---- Still, the honeymoon was great.

 

I am too young to remember much about Ford other than the goofy Chevy Chase falling down pretending he was Ford.