"OUR LONG national nightmare is over," Gerald Ford declared when he took office as president a little over 32 years ago. Those words were to prove the most memorable of his brief administration and also the most apposite. The feverish dream of Watergate, with its byzantine intrigues, Borgia-like treachery, and months of hearings and trials, was suddenly gone: The country awoke to a new president who lived in Northern Virginia and toasted his own English muffins before commuting to work in Washington....
Gerald R. Ford
"OUR LONG national nightmare is over," Gerald Ford declared when he took office as president a little over 32 years ago. Those words were to prove the most memorable of his brief administration and also the most apposite. The feverish dream of Watergate, with its byzantine intrigues, Borgia-like treachery, and months of hearings and trials, was suddenly gone: The country awoke to a new president who lived in Northern Virginia and toasted his own English muffins before commuting to work in Washington....