Badass Birthday
On this date, in 1913, in Omaha Nebraka, Gerald Ford was born.
Gerald Ford was a longtime member of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives serving from the state of Michigan, rising to the level of Minority leader. He became Vice-President after Spiro Agnew resigned, and then when Nixon resigned too, he assumted to Oval Office himself.
He was a mediocre president. He did sign the Helsinki Accords and got American troops out of Vietnam, but he DID pardon Nixon within a month of assuming office and did nothing to improve the dire econimic conditions America was suffering under.
He only served a little under 3 years, from August 1974 until January 1977. He passed away in December 2006 at the age of 93.
So this being the case, why is a badass? He's the only President of the United States never to have been elected as either President or Vice-President! He became President without running for either office. And while that's not something he pursused, it's more something he just fell into, still, that sounds pretty badass to me!
POLT
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