Carter's inaugural words will one day be the political epitaph of John Swinney. The First Minister, like Ford, is a ...

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...

Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president, entered the earthly stage as Hiram Ulysses Grant. When his name was mistakenly entered on the West Point register as Ulysses Simpson Grant, he eagerly ...

MORE: Jimmy Carter funeral: Watch live Gerald Ford took office following the Watergate scandal. Ford had been appointed vice president when Spiro Agnew resigned, then ascended to the presidency when ...

Former President Gerald R. Ford also attended the funeral, as did Mr. Clinton and Mr. Carter. Former President Richard M. Nixon’s funeral on April 27, 1994, was the first for an American head of ...

Ford’s son Steve Ford read that eulogy at Jimmy Carter’s funeral service ... then ascended to the presidency when Richard Nixon stepped down, making him the only president who was not elected ...

Gerald Ford was president before Carter, having taken office after the impeachment and resignation of Richard Nixon. Ford lost the 1976 presidential election to Carter, but the two eventually ...

In the 1976 election, Carter, running as a let’s-clean-up-government Democrat who vowed “I will never lie to you,” defeated Ford, who was weighed down by the stench of Richard Nixon and ...

who has rarely used his full name — James Earl Carter Jr, was born Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia. Gerald Ford, the Michigan native who was the 38th president after succeeding Richard Nixon, who had ...