Opinion of Gerald Ford

[ElectionsGuy]

George Washington: 77.6% Approval
John Adams: 87.0% Approval
Thomas Jefferson: 70.4% Approval
James Madison: 81.0% Approval
James Monroe: 66.7% Approval
John Quincy Adams: 79.6% Approval
Andrew Jackson: 23.7% Approval
Martin Van Buren: 77.8% Approval
William Henry Harrison: 50.0% Approval
John Tyler: 23.3% Approval
James K. Polk: 64.3% Approval
Zachary Taylor: 80.0% Approval
Millard Fillmore: 12.5% Approval
Franklin Pierce: 16.1% Approval
James Buchanan: 6.3% Approval
Abraham Lincoln: 89.1% Approval
Andrew Johnson: 19.2% Approval
Ulysses S. Grant: 76.2% Approval
Rutherford B. Hayes: 35.3% Approval
James A. Garfield: 83.7% Approval
Chester A. Arthur: 80.8% Approval
Grover Cleveland: 54.8% Approval
Benjamin Harrison: 31.1% Approval
William McKinley: 44.7% Approval
Theodore Roosevelt: 67.7% Approval
William Howard Taft: 68.3% Approval
Woodrow Wilson: 38.9% Approval
Warren G. Harding: 31.1% Approval
Calvin Coolidge: 45.2% Approval
Herbert Hoover: 35.8% Approval
Franklin D. Roosevelt: 78.7% Approval
Harry S. Truman: 74.6% Approval
Dwight D. Eisenhower: 80.8% Approval
John F. Kennedy: 59.7% Approval
Lyndon B. Johnson: 50.5% Approval
Richard Nixon: 17.0% Approval

38th President of the United States: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford

FF, I suppose.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

FF

Nixon has the 3rd lowest, behind only Pierce and Buchanan. I doubt Shrub could beat that.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

The G.O.A.T., obviously.

[RogueBeaver]

FF

[ElectionsGuy]

Separate question to those answering in the thread, should I do an Obama thread? I don't think its fair for me to do so since he hasn't completed his presidency, but if you all want to do it, then I will.

FF

Nixon has the 3rd lowest, behind only Pierce and Buchanan. I doubt Shrub could beat that.

And Fillmore.

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

HP.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Very underrated.

[Clarence Boddicker]

FF. Seemed pretty chill.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Utterly mediocre, which makes him far better than most other presidents.

[SWE]

Utterly mediocre, which makes him far better than most other presidents.

[Mordecai]

FF. I don't think he should have pardoned Nixon but I think he had the interests of the country at heart and he knew the consequences of it.

[Maxwell]

The embodiment of mediocrity, but I suppose a Lean FF.

[#CriminalizeSobriety]

There's something about the man and his governing style that really endears him to me. Huge FF.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

FF

[H. Ross Peron]

FF

[Oakvale]

Pardoned Nixon, HP. He also leaked information about the Warren Commission to his friends at the FBI.

[Mechaman]

Pardoned Nixon, HP. He also leaked information about the Warren Commission to his friends at the FBI.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Mega FF

[Gass3268]

Lean FF without the Nixon pardon, so that moves him to a lean HP.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

FF. And I still think pardoning Nixon was the right thing to do.

[PiMp DaDdy FitzGerald]

FF. If he didn't pardon Nixon then that would have set a precedent that would have made any and all executive actions from that point on suspect and would have crippled the executive branch. It could be said from that logic that Ford's pardon of Nixon gave us Obama.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Pardoned Nixon, HP. He also leaked information about the Warren Commission to his friends at the FBI.

Was unaware of the second allegation. Doesn't really change my opinion of him a whole lot, but still...

[SWE]

FF. If he didn't pardon Nixon then that would have set a precedent that would have made any and all executive actions from that point on suspect and would have crippled the executive branch. It could be said from that logic that Ford's pardon of Nixon gave us Obama.

So Ford set the precedent that presidents shouldn't be held accountable for their actions? Awesome!

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

But then Nixon would have gone to jail, and the Republicans would be over.

[IceSpear]

FF