Betty Ford scares up the President’s chair-
Here’s a glimpse of White House Halloween antics from 1974. Betty Ford and her personal assistant, Nancy Howe, dress a skeleton in President Ford’s study.
-from the Ford Library
“Justice Stevens “may be the last justice from a time when ability and independence, rather than perceived ideology, were viewed as the crucial qualifications for a seat on the court. He was nominated by President Gerald R. Ford in 1975, who said all he wanted was ‘the finest legal mind I could find.’”
Adam Liptak of the NYTimes
