“History has a way of matching man and moment. And just as President Lincoln’s stubborn devotion to our constitution kept the union together during the Civil War, and just as FDR’s optimism was the perfect antidote

to the despair of a great depression, so, too, can we say that Jerry Ford’s decency was the ideal remedy for the deception of Watergate. For this and for so much more, his presidency will be remembered as a time of healing

in our land.”
– President George H.W. Bush, at yesterday’s state funeral service for President Ford