Gerald Ford, 38th President of the U.S., died Tuesday, December 26 at age 93. Ford, pictured here as a U.S. Congressman with my Dad, Buehl Berentson, assumed the presidency after President Richard Nixon’s resignation in the midst of scandal. Dad worked with Congressman Ford while serving with the Republican Congressional Committee. He recalls him as a decent man who spent countless days traveling the country on behalf of Republican congressional candidates during the 1960s. Today Newsweek magazine writer Barry Werth wrote in part: “Ford, who never sought national office and never got a single vote for president or vice president, stepped onto the world stage just as his government was sundering, which alone must qualify him for a place among history’s bravest, if most untested and lightly regarded leaders. Pressed into service without his own staff or any time to prepare, Gerry Ford was affable and regular, an energetic former college football star and World War II veteran