Gerald Ford: What a Guy!

Gerald Ford: What a Guy!

Curt Gentry, in J. Edgar Hoover, The Man and His Secrets (1991), had some things to say about Gerald Ford – This is not a spoof.

“Impressed with a young Republican congressional hopeful in Michigan, the Bureau (FBI) in 1946 arranged support for Gerald Ford, who expressed his thanks in his maiden speech by asking for a pay raise for J. Edgar Hoover.” (p. 384)

“The (Warren) commission member Ford opposed criticizing the FBI for having failed to inform the Secret Service that Oswald was in Dallas and working in a building located on the parade route, but Chairman Warren insisted it go in …” (p. 556)

“… Hoover’s informant on the (Warren) commission was Representative Gerald Ford.” (p. 557)

“Although there was no evidence that (Supreme Court Justice) Douglas had Mafia connections, it could be made to seem that way, and Hoover passed on this information, first to Attorney General Mitchell and later to Congressman Gerald Ford, who would lead the Douglas impeachment fight.” (p. 628) Nixon asked Hoover to pass on the information that an extract of Douglas’s book, Points of Rebellion, had been published in Evergreen Review. Hoover gave the information to Ford, “which he used, but it didn’t help” The 924-page House report cleared Douglas. (pp. 629-630)

When Hale Boggs, Democratic majority leader in the House, called for Hoover’s resignation in 1971, only Gerald Ford stood up to defend him and the FBI. “They are humans, as we are,” quoth Ford. (p. 667)

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