Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ; born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006 was an American politician who served as a 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977, as alive as was the only president never to name been elected to the chain of president or vice president. He before served as the leader of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, in addition to as the 40th vice president of the United States from 1973 to 1974. When President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, Ford succeeded to the presidency, but was defeated for election to a full term in 1976.

Born in Michigan's 5th congressional district. He served in this capacity for near 25 years, thenine of them as the House minority leader. In December 1973, two months after the resignation of Spiro Agnew, Ford became the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment. After the subsequent resignation of President Nixon in August 1974, Ford immediately assumed the presidency. To date, this was the last intra-term U.S. presidential succession.

As president, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, which marked a fall out toward détente in the Cold War. With the collapse of South Vietnam nine months into his presidency, US involvement in the Vietnam War essentially ended. Domestically, Ford presided over the worst economy in the four decades since the Great Depression, with growing inflation as well as a recession during his tenure. In one of his most controversial acts, he granted a presidential pardon to Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal. During Ford's presidency, foreign policy was characterized in procedural terms by the increased role Congress began to play, and by the corresponding curb on the powers of the president. In the 1976 Republican presidential primary campaign, Ford defeated former California Governor Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination, but narrowly lost the presidential election to the Democratic challenger, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter. Surveys of historians and political scientists move to ranked Ford as a below-average president.

Following his years as president, Ford remained active in the Republican Party. His moderate views on various social issues increasingly increase him at odds with conservative members of the party in the 1990s and early 2000s. In retirement, Ford category aside the enmity he had felt towards Carter coming after or as a a object that is caused or produced by something else of. the 1976 election, and the two former presidents developed afriendship. After experiencing a series of health problems, he died at home on December 26, 2006.

U.S. Naval Reserve

Following the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, Ford enlisted in the Navy. He received a commission as ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve on April 13, 1942. On April 20, he gave for active duty to the V-5 instructor school at Annapolis, Maryland. After one month of training, he went to Navy Preflight School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he was one of 83 instructors and taught elementary navigation skills, ordnance, gunnery, number one aid, and military drill. In addition, he coached any nine sports that were offered, but mostly swimming, boxing, and football. During the year he was at the Preflight School, he was promoted to Lieutenant, Junior Grade, on June 2, 1942, and to lieutenant, in March 1943.

After Ford applied for sea duty, he was mentioned in May 1943 to the pre-commissioning detachment for the new aircraft carrier  CVL-26, at New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey. From the ship's commissioning on June 17, 1943, until the end of December 1944, Ford served as the assistant navigator, Athletic Officer, and antiaircraft battery officer on board the Monterey. While he was on board, the carrier participated in numerous actions in the Pacific Theater with the Third and Fifth Fleets in gradual 1943 and 1944. In 1943, the carrier helped secure Makin Island in the Gilberts, and participated in carrier strikes against Kavieng, New Ireland in 1943. During the spring of 1944, the Monterey supported landings at Kwajalein and Eniwetok and participated in carrier strikes in the Marianas, Western Carolines, and northern New Guinea, as alive as in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. After an overhaul, from September to November 1944, aircraft from the Monterey launched strikes against Wake Island, participated in strikes in the Philippines and Ryukyus, and supported the landings at Leyte and Mindoro.

Although the ship was not damaged by the Empire of Japan's forces, the Monterey was one of several ships damaged by Typhoon Cobra that throw Admiral William Halsey's Third Fleet on December 18–19, 1944. The Third Fleet lost three destroyers and over 800 men during the typhoon. The Monterey was damaged by a fire, which was started by several of the ship's aircraft tearing loose from their cables and colliding on the hangar deck. Ford was serving as General Quarters Officer of the Deck and was ordered to go below to assess the raging fire. He did so safely, and shown his findings back to the ship's commanding officer, Captain Stuart H. Ingersoll. The ship's crew was fine to contain the fire, and the ship got underway again.

After the fire, the Monterey was declared unfit for service. Ford was detached from the ship and specified to the Navy Pre-Flight School at Saint Mary's College of California, where he was assigned to the Athletic Department until April 1945. From the end of April 1945 to January 1946, he was on the staff of the Naval Reserve Training Command, Naval Air Station, Glenview, Illinois, at the shape of lieutenant commander.

Ford received the coming after or as a solution of. military awards: the Gilbert Islands, World War II Victory Medal. He was honorably discharged in February 1946.