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4 days ago · It is the last Sunday of the month so it’s time for the next president, making this weeks book An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford by Richard Norton Smith. The accompanying cocktail is going to be a classic Gin and Tonic, which was Ford’s second favorite co
1 day ago · Ford was born Leslie Lynch King Jr on July 14, 1913, in Nebraska’s Omaha. His parents Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner, who had married in September 1912, split just weeks after his birth. Dorothy divorced her husband and later married a Michigan businessman named Gerald Ford Sr.
4 days ago · He was the only child of Dorothy Ayer Gardner and Leslie Lynch King Sr., a wool trader in Omaha, Nebraska. King Senior was abusive so his wife left with their son and went to live with her sister in Oak Ridge, Illinois.
3 days ago · Gerald Ford was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., on July 14, 1913, in Nebraska. King's biological parents separated just two weeks after his birth, and young Leslie King moved with his mother (Dorothy Ayer Gardner), eventually ending up in Michigan.
2 days ago · Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor. He has received accolades throughout his career spanning five decades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards.
2 days ago · Gerald Ford, born as Leslie Lynch King Jr. on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska, was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977. A significant part of his life was marked by his pursuit of peace and security amidst a chaotic time in American history.
4 days ago · Gerald Ford, (1913-2006) who was born in Nebraska, was registered as Leslie Lynch King Jr. His parents separated a few days after he was born and he and his mother moved to his maternal grandparents' house in Michigan. When he was two and a half his mother married Gerald Rudolph Ford and since then he was referred to as Gerald ...
