Ford Spawns Bush

From consortiumnews.com:

To many Americans, Gerald Ford represented the antithesis of the imperial presidency that Richard Nixon had brought to historic heights. After succeeding Nixon in 1974, Ford downplayed the trappings of power and treated Congress with greater respect.
But, in retrospect, Ford's two-plus years in office could be viewed as the start of the imperial presidency's comeback, which under George W. Bush has exceeded anything Nixon dreamed of. And, ironically, by silencing his own doubts about Bush's Iraq War, Ford may have had a hand in that, too.

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