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CARETAKER NOSTALGIA. Gerald Ford served ably during a difficult time and gave a troubled nation what it needed:
After a decade of division over Vietnam and two years of trauma over the Watergate scandals, Jerry Ford, as he called himself, radiated a soothing familiarity. He might have been the nice guy down the street suddenly put in charge of the nation, and if he seemed a bit predictable, he was also safe, reliable and reassuring. He placed no intolerable intellectual or psychological burdens on a weary land...His former aides, less so.
--Garance Franke-Ruta