Interviewees discuss the presidency of Gerald Ford (1974-1977).
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“Up to the time he was President of United States, he was probably the most physically fit man who ever was President of the United States. American football player and all that stuff. But he just was a klutz when it came to stuff like that. And Chevy [Chase] turned that into a whole thing. Because remember, his Gerald Ford was always falling over." - Dick Ebersol, Executive
Highlights
Dick Ebersol on "I'm Gerald Ford and you're not"
01:18
Howard K. Smith on his thoughts on Gerald Ford
00:34
Betty Cole Dukert on various Presidents and Meet the Press: Gerald Ford
10:43
Nick Clooney on interviewing Gerald Ford in the White House
00:52
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Nick Clooney
Nick Clooney on interviewing Gerald Ford in the White House
00:52
Betty Cole Dukert
Betty Cole Dukert on various Presidents and Meet the Press: Gerald Ford
10:43
Dick Ebersol
Dick Ebersol on "I'm Gerald Ford and you're not"
01:18
Bob Schieffer
Bob Schieffer on covering Presidents Ford and Nixon as the White House correspondent for CBS News
02:02
Bob Schieffer on Gerald Ford being his favorite president to cover as CBS News White House correspondent
06:08
Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr on the Pike Report, and on leaving CBS News for the final time
07:03
Robert Smigel
Robert Smigel on one of the funniest sketches he was involved in on The Dana Carvey Show about President Gerald Ford that never aired until Smigel and Dana Carvey revived it later for Saturday Night Live; on the inspiration for the sketch which was hearing news anchor Dan Rather pre-recording an obituary for Ronald Reagan (who was then still alive) which they overheard; on this experience inspiring them to do a bit with Dana Carvey portraying news anchor Tom Brokaw announcing that President Gerald Ford had died; on having to fight to get the sketch aired on SNL; on why he had trouble getting his sketches on SNL; on finally being able to get the Gerald Ford sketch on the air only when Dana Carvey came back to host Saturday Night Live in 1996
08:06
Sanford Socolow
Sanford Socolow on overseeing CBS' Washington Bureau in the 1970s during the Ford Administration
01:28