Recent events prompted me to pull this old newspaper out of the file. My folks saw fit to stash it away in Nashville that fateful summer day (I was 3), and it was passed down to me. Did you know I share a birthday with Richard Milhous Nixon?
As it happens, Wednesday morning I learned of Gerald Ford's death from a newspaper, the Knoxville News Sentinel. Ereck and I were visiting his folks, who read the morning paper around the kitchen table, and so when I awoke that day I got the big news not from television, not from the Internets, but from dead trees. What a concept!
One of my earliest memories is of Gerald Ford, and in particular of the Ford-Dole sticker I stuck to my bedroom door, which was covered with stickers. Yes, ours was a Ford-Dole household, though if I had been eligible to vote in the fall of 1976, I probably would have voted for Mr. Rogers.
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