Difference Quote by Earl Butz

Historians will look back and say, 'Foreign policy in the Ford presidency was very much dominated by Kissinger, with a kind of continuity from…

— Robert Dallek

In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon…

— Paul Johnson

After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson,…

— Nancy Gibbs

Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

While I do not believe Ford was wrong to pardon Nixon, the timing of the pardon was premature and may have cost Ford the…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

Though it was never a goal in life, it has occurred to me that I've met six presidents of the United States. OK, I…

— Dan Jenkins

When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office, of which I was…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

In the post-Watergate atmosphere of 1975 and 1976, the just-plain-folks personalities of both Ford and Carter seemed the perfect antidote to Nixon's arrogant, isolated…

— Jeff Greenfield

I don't remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.

— Stewart Udall

At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford's constitutional authority. The specter of a former…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a general. George Bush senior.…

— Pete Rose

Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.

— Earl Butz