More about Gerald R. Ford

• He presided over the evacuation of Americans from Vietnam.
• Betty Ford was an activist for the Equal Rights Amendment. She served as a positive example to women when she spoke out after surviving breast cancer and overcoming a dependency on drugs and alcohol, and established the Betty Ford Center.
• He survived two assassination attempts.
• "Our inflation, our public enemy number one, will, unless whipped, destroy our country, our homes, our liberties, our property and finally our national pride as surely as will any well-armed wartime enemy."