// BEGIN editorial data var i = 0; var GeraldFordTimeline = new Array(); GeraldFordTimeline.ID = "GeraldFordTimeline"; GeraldFordTimeline.ID_WB = 9410697; GeraldFordTimeline.sPubDate = "12/13/2005 8:43:01 PM GMT"; GeraldFordTimeline.navsectionID = "3032552" GeraldFordTimeline.appFmt = 2; GeraldFordTimeline.appWidth = 460; GeraldFordTimeline.appHeader = "timeline|Gerald R. Ford"; GeraldFordTimeline.appNavStyle = 3; GeraldFordTimeline.appLayout = 1; GeraldFordTimeline.copyHeight = 425; GeraldFordTimeline.copyMargin = 9; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","July 14, 1913","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Born Leslie Lynch King Jr., the son of Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King, in Omaha, Neb. The Kings separate two weeks later, and his mother takes him to Grand Rapids, Mich., to live with her parents. On Feb. 1, 1916, his mother marries Gerald R. Ford, a Grand Rapids paint salesman. They begin calling the boy Gerald R. Ford Jr. His name is legally changed Dec. 3, 1935.

"; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","June 1935","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Graduates from the University of Michigan with majors in economics and political science. Played center and linebacker for the Wolverines football team. Turns down contract offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers of the National Football League, deciding instead to attend Yale University Law School."; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","1941","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Receives law degree from Yale. "; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","1942","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Leaves legal practice in Grand Rapids to join the Navy Reserve, receiving a commission as an ensign. Serves aboard the light aircraft carrier USS Monterey until the ship is severely damaged in a typhoon and fire. Spends the rest of the war ashore."; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","February 1946","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Discharged from the Navy with the rank of lieutenant commander."; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Oct. 15, 1948","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Marries Elizabeth Ann Bloomer Warren, a department store fashion consultant. "; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Nov. 2, 1948","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Elected to the House of Representatives. In that election and his 12 subsequent re-elections, always receives more than 60 percent of the vote."; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Nov. 29, 1963 ","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Appointed by President Johnson to the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He is the last remaining member of the commission."; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","January 1965 ","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Elected minority leader of the House of Representatives."; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Dec. 6, 1973","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Confirmed as nation’s 40th vice president after selection by President Richard Nixon to replace Spiro Agnew after Agnew resigned. Agnew had pleaded no contest to a charge of income tax evasion."; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Aug. 9, 1974","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Sworn in as 38th president after Nixon’s resignation. He is the only president not to have been elected either president or vice president."; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Aug. 20, 1974 ","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Nominates former New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller to be vice president. "; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Sept. 8, 1974","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Pardons Richard Nixon for any “crimes he committed or may have committed.”"; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","November 1974","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Reaches tentative agreement with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev on limiting the number of U.S. and Soviet nuclear delivery systems at a summit in Vladivostok, Russia."; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","April 1975","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Orders the evacuation of the last U.S. personnel from Vietnam. War officially ends April 24, 1975."; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","May 1975","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Orders a military response when Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime seizes the merchant ship SS Mayaguez on May 12 and removes its crew. The 30-member Mayaguez crew is freed, but 64 U.S. service people are killed and 50 injured. It is believed that about 60 Khmer Rouge soldiers are killed."; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","May 28, 1975","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Signs Threshold Test Ban Treaty with the Soviet Union’s Leonid Brezhnev prohibiting underground nuclear weapons tests exceeding 150 kilotons."; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Aug. 1, 1975","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Signs the Helsinki Accords, recognizing existing frontiers between states in Eastern Europe, including between East and West Germany, in exchange for concessions from the Soviet Union on human rights, travel and dissemination of information."; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Sept. 5, 1975","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a follower of imprisoned cult leader Charles Manson, points a gun at Ford as he shakes hands in Sacramento, Calif. No shots are fired."; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Sept. 22, 1975","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Radical Sara Jane Moore tries unsuccessfully to shoot Ford outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. "; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Dec. 1, 1975","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Nominates John Paul Stevens as Supreme Court associate justice. Stevens is confirmed by the Senate Dec. 19."; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Nov. 2, 1976","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "With Bob Dole as running mate, loses presidential election to Democrat Jimmy Carter."; GeraldFordTimeline[i++] = new Array("","Jan. 20, 1977","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GeraldFordTimeline[i-1].body = "Leaves office upon inauguration of Jimmy Carter."; // END editorial data