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The Only Eagle Scout To Be President


cropped-gerald-ford3Leslie Lynch King, Jr., born JULY 14, 1913, became the 38th President of the United States.

Renamed by his stepfather, he was the only Eagle Scout to be President.

He attended the University of Michigan on a football scholarship, graduated from Yale Law School and served in the Navy during World War II.

His name was Gerald Rudolph Ford.

Ford was House Minority Leader until chosen as Vice-President when Spiro Agnew resigned, then President when Richard Nixon resigned.

He was the only President not elected.

Gerald Rudolph Ford stated upon assuming the Presidency, August 9, 1974:

“I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, and so I ask you to confirm me as your President with your prayers.”

On September 8, 1974, President Ford stated:

“The Constitution is the supreme law of our land and it governs our actions as citizens. Only the laws of God, which govern our consciences, are superior to it. As we are a Nation under God, so I am sworn to uphold our laws with the help of God.”

In a Proclamation of Prayer, December 5, 1974, President Ford quoted President Eisenhower:

“Without God there could be no American form of government… Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first-the most basic-expression of Americanism.”




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  • NoRINO

    He was a liar like the rest of them. As a member of the Warren Commission he with the rest stood there and told America that President Kennedy had been killed by a “magic bullet”. Seinfeld lampooned this debauchery 30 years later on his show. I was 10 years old when the report came out and knew that my government was lying to me. By the way I have seen the Zapruder film at least 100 times and if you believe the Warren report I have some nice Virginia swampland I’d like to show you. Chevy Chase would have made a better president than Ford.

  • Kewkid

    How perceptions have changed. Gerald Ford was always a good man — but During his Presidency — and in spite of his athleticism — liberals ridiculed him as not being able to “walk and chew gum” at the same time. These from foiks who consider themselves “caring” and “sensitive” above all others.

    • Blair

      Do you know how it happened? Ford was coming down the steps of Air
      Force One when he tripped and fell not far from the bottom. That’s how
      Chevy Chase injured his back. Doing his impersonation of Ford falling
      on Saturday Night Live. Gerald Ford survived not one, but TWO, assassination attempts. The first, by Manson Family member Lynette “Squeaky” Fromm, and the second, by Sarah Jane Moore.

  • theoldguy44

    Ford was a good American and a man of faith. Mitt Romney is from the same mold, a good family man, with a moral compass, very different from the current occupant.

  • Big Mike 603

    You’ll never hear those words from Obama’s lips. What a shame! Our country has become an obamanation in the sight of God ..

  • doug63

    the only uniform odumbmao ever wore looked like a sheet and rags!!!!! I think better of gerald ford now. I would have guessed eisenhower. We should make Eagle Scout a requisite for elected office, especially POTUS.

  • freedomringsforall

    He was a very nice man.

  • The Scotsman

    If you were ever in boy Scouting you would have known the Jerry Ford was an Eagle Scout and a war veteran. I was a Scout Master, District and Council leader and a war veteran. I made it known to my Scouts that our President Ford also was a Scout.

    • freedomringsforall

      good for you, God bless you

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dale-Briggs/100000308046243 Dale Briggs

    TO BAD THAT THE ONE WE HAVE NOW WAS DIRECTED BY OUR GOD AND THE CONSTRUCTION WE WOULD HAVE THE BLESSING OF OUR LORD AND OUR COUNTRY WOULD TRULY BE THE LIGHT FOR ALL FREE MEN IN STEAD WE ARE GOING LIKE ALL GREAT NATIONS THAT TAKE FREEDOM AWAY FROM THERE PEOPLE AND THERE RIGHT TO THERE OWN WAY OF LIFE

  • littlepat

    Whatever happened to people like that? Where have they gone? Today, people only care about themselves. It’s a sad, dismal world. I cry when I think what the younger generation is going to miss. They will never know what a great country we had once upon a time.

  • Raymond

    The Ant & The
    Grasshopper.

    MODERN VERSION.

    The ant works hard in the withering heat and the
    rain all summer long, building his house and laying
    up supplies for the winter.

    The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs
    and dances and plays the summer away.

    Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press
    conference and demands to know why the ant should be
    allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

    CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures
    of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his
    comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is
    stunned by the sharp contrast.

    How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this
    poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

    Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper
    and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not EasyBeing Green…’

    ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house
    where the news stations film the SEIU group singing,
    We shall overcome.

    Then Rev.. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down
    to pray for the grasshopper’s sake, while he damns the ants.

    President Obama condems the ant and blames
    President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan
    & Christopher Columbus for the grasshopper’s plight.

    Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview
    with LarryKing that the ant has gotten rich off the back
    of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate
    tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

    Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity &
    Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning
    of the summer.

    The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate
    number of green bugs and, having nothing left
    to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated
    by the Government Green Czar and given to the
    grasshopper.

    The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his
    free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the
    ant’s food while the government house he is in, which,
    as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house,
    crumbles around them because the grasshopper
    doesn’t maintain it.

    The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be
    seen again.

    The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related
    incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken
    over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle,
    once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.

    The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the
    free world with it.

    MORAL OF THE STORY:
    Be careful how you vote in 2012.

    I’ve sent this to you because I believe that you’re
    an ant, not a grasshopper!

    Make sure that you pass this on to other ants.

    Don’t bother sending it on to any grasshoppers
    because they wouldn’t understand it, anyway

    • lis

      Semper Fi, Raymond
      From a Marine Mom!

    • rosemarienoa

      Thank you Raymond!!! Very astute as always! Semper Fi!

    • Deepizzaguy

      Thank you very much. The former military bases in Panama look like a ghost town now.

  • jmsmaxwell

    One of the few who have steped up to the plate when our nation was hurting
    and needed guidance. Dammed few around like that today and not who have
    either Scouting or Military experience or love of country. The majority of them
    are draft dodgers or others who ran when their country called. They became
    politicians so the could gain riches and power over others at the expense of
    the nation. Where have all the good men gone since Ford or Regan?

  • Sam

    That’s the way a president should talk.
    That’s the way Obama will never talk.
    (Unless he is lying again, of course.)

  • Deepizzaguy

    I liked Gerald because he was a sharp speaker with words and he never harbored any will ill toward Chevy Chase or Hollywood who lampooned him as a bumbling fool.

    • Tom

      Hollywood has lampooned ALL Republican Presidents as bumbling fools. They’ve done it to Ford, Reagan, and both Bushes, even going to the extent of making films on Reagan and Bush 43 defaminig them at every point. Have you ever noticed how they’re always promoting Democrats, no matter how stupid they are, as “smart” and also blasting Republicans as being dumb? With Reagan, they always referred to him being a “B movie actor” asking how people could elect such a guy president. Notice how they just jumped right over his 12 years in the Governor’s Mansion in California where he was very successful, and popular?

    • Deepizzaguy

      That is true. Just make fun of Obama like the people in Huntsville Utah did and Obama will send the Secret Service on them faster than you can say “iron Man.”

  • Guardian for HIS People

    Odd that the Original Preppers i.e. “BE PREPARED” [Scout MOTTO] should now be labeled as: TERRORISTS? What type of DEMONIC entity would Do SUCH a THING?

  • agbjr

    “On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country … ” President Ford more than lived up to his oath as a Scout and his duty as an Eagle Scout. Support Scouting and you support the future leaders of OUR Republic.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3FAENBN4GWR4OIQ5PFH4GXWPPM Charlie

    Interesting little piece of trivia. I never knew that.

    Other little fact: Gerry Ford served as the Grand Master of Masons in Michigan; the only other president to be Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of his state was Harry Truman (Missouri.)

    The words of Ford today still ring so true. I wish we would listen to them now.

    • agbjr

      Andrew Jackson was the sixth Grand Master of the Lodge of Tennessee. Fourteen US Presidents were Freemasons and at least six were Worshipful Master of their lodge among them Washington, Monroe, and Buchanan.

  • toootall

    We now have a vulture scout

  • oliver

    would’nt it be nice if it were still that way????

    • mare

      it would be extremely nice if it were still that way and pray that it will be again

    • freedomringsforall

      amen