Gerald Rudolph Ford,Jr is died :( condolences :(

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Gerald Ford was the 38th President (1974-1977)and 40th Vice President(1973-1794)of the United States.He was the first person appointed to the Vice-Presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment;) and upon succession to the presidency ,he became the only president in US history to fill that office without having been elected euther Presudebt or Vice PResident .He was also the longest-lived United States president,having surpassed Ronald Reagans's record on nov 12 2006. The ford administration saw the withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam,the execution of the Helsinki Accords and the continuing specter of infltion and recession.Faced with an overwhelmingly Democratic majority in Congress the administration was hampered in its ability to pass major legistlation and Ford's vetoes were frequqntly overridden.Ford was criticized by many for granting a pre-emptive pardon to President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate Scandal and was subsequently defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential election. Gerald Ford died at the age of 93 on December 26 2006 at 6:45 pms .At 8:49 Ford's wife ,Betty issued a statement that confirmed his death.