Was Bob Woodward waiting for Gerald Ford to die?
28 Dec 2006
Ford Disagreed With Bush About Invading Iraq
I mean, did he even wait for the guy’s body to get cold before filing this?
The shame. The shame.
Meanwhile, Frank Warner comments on Woodward’s piece and Ford’s statements: Gerald Ford: Don’t free people if liberation doesn’t serve U.S. interests
And Dean Esmay plays a bit of “what if?”:
But let us pretend, for the sake of the argument, that he had not pardoned Nixon for his Watergate malfeasance.
Go read.
December 28th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
Yeah, when I heard this I felt it was a cheap shot, very uncool. Given the source though, not surprising.
December 28th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
I hesitate to bring this up, but given his previous record is Woodward credibile here? Do we even know that this conversation took place, much less how Woodward portrays it?
December 28th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Woodward has an audio tape of the Gerald Ford interview. There is no tape of Woodward’s probably faked ’secret deathbed interview’ of CIA director William Casey.
December 28th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
The NY Daily News says otherwise: http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/483757p-407239c.html ‘Ford was a few weeks shy of his 93rd birthday as we chatted for about 45 minutes. He’d been visited by President Bush three weeks earlier and said he’d told Bush he supported the war in Iraq but that the 43rd President had erred by staking the invasion on weapons of mass destruction. ‘Saddam Hussein was an evil person and there was justification to get rid of him,’ he observed, ‘but we shouldn’t have put the basis on weapons of mass destruction. That was a bad mistake. Where does [Bush] get his advice?”
December 28th, 2006 at 8:21 pm
Yes, I heard the tape later on the radio. I agree, however, that it is telling that Woodward couldn’t wait a decent interval to release this.
December 28th, 2006 at 11:06 pm
President Ford is probably the opposite of ‘Chatty Carter!’ – An impressive, strong and loyal patriot.
December 29th, 2006 at 10:31 am
Personally, I’m waiting for Bob Woodward to die.