Gerald Ford

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English: Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (July 14, 1913 - 26 December, 2006) (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., renamed after adoption) was the fourteenth (1973–1974) Vice President and the thirty-eighth (1974–1977) President of the United States.

Polski: Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (ur. 14 lipca 1913, zm. 26 grudnia 2006), 40. wiceprezydent i 38. prezydent USA.

[edit] Portraits

US Navy photo, 1945	Official White House photograph, color, 1974.	Official White House photograph, black and white, 1974	Official White House photograph, black and white cropped, 1974
Official White House photograph, color, 1976	Official Presidential portrait

[edit] Early years

age 1	Ford on the football field at the University of Michigan, 1933.	second from right in first row is Lt. Gerald R. Ford Jr.	Activities aboard USS Monterey (CVL-26). Navy pilots in the forward elevator well playing basketball., ca. 06/1944" Jumper of the left is future President Gerald Ford
The Fords on their wedding day, October 15, 1948

[edit] In office

The Fords escort the Nixons to a waiting Presidential Helicopter.	Swearing in	Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, George Herbert Walker Bush, Ronald Wilson Reagan and James Earl Carter	President Ford before U.S. Congress. House Speaker Carl Albert and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller looks on
Ford and Leonid Brezhnev	Ford and Brezhnev signing accord	V.P. Ford with Pres. Nixon, Sec. Kissinger and Alexander Haig	Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and White House Chief of Staff Dick Cheney meeting with President Ford, April 1975.
President Ford, Vice President Rockefeller an Secretary of State Kissinger	With Cheney and Rumsfeld	In oval office	with his golden retriever Liberty in the Oval Office, 1974
Ford pardoned a Turkey on the Thanksgiving Day	with wife in limousine, 1969	The Fords aboard Air Force One, 1976	The Fords campaign on their train tour of Michigan, 1976
Ford and Jimmy Carter debating, 1976	Assassination attempt by Sara Jane Moore, September 22, 1975

[edit] Retirement

90th birthday 2003

President Bush and Ford and Betty has a April 23, 2006.

[edit] Funeral and burial site

See also: Category:Death and state funeral of Gerald Ford.

Ford Portrait with black veil after his death	memorial service in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., Dec. 30, 2006, lying in state	during the State Funeral ceremony, Saturday, December 30, 2006	at the National Cathedral, January 2, 2007
	Ford's casket in the National Cathedral	Flag Half-Staff following Ford's death	Billboard in Grand Rapids, MI
President Ford's Motorcade	Line at Museum to view casket	President Ford's Hearse	Honor Guard carrying Ford's casket to final resting place.
21 Gun Salute at burial site in Grand Rapids, MI.	Grave in Grand Rapids, Michigan