President gerald ford facts
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President gerald ford facts
Someone has to carry the nuclear codes, and now he's written a book | Neal Rubin
It was St. Patrick's Day in 1976, and President Gerald Ford wanted to dance.
He'd thrown a state dinner for Liam Cosgrave, the prime minister of the Republic of Ireland.
He had fashion designer and German princess Diane von Furstenberg on his arm, while first lady Betty Ford was charming somebody else.
The Leader of the Free World gave Army major, presidential aide and future author Bob Barrett his marching orders: tell the band to play a foxtrot.
Mission accomplished, sir, and Ford stepped out on the floor — not knowing that Cosgrave had also made a request, and his outranked Barrett's.
As Ford stood ready to dazzle the room with his smooth moves, the military band broke into an Irish jig.
That's the sort of anecdote that'll sell a book, but wait, there's more.
Barrett's memoir of his time with Michigan's only president, published last week, continues with him escorting the Fords to their upstairs