Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Gerald Ford's funeral

Now I have no allegiance to President Ford, I was not even born yet. I do find it very disturbing for his pardon of Nixon, but that is in the past and obviously a moot point now. But what little I did see of his funeral was nice.

There was a very strange moment during it, however. It was when George H. W. Bush, during his eulogy, mentioned the Warren Report and the JFK assassination.

"After a deluded gunman assassinated President Kennedy, our nation turned to Gerald Ford and a select handful of others to make sense of that madness. And a conspiracy theorist can say what they will, but the Warren Commission Report will always have the final, definitive say on this tragic matter. Why? Because Gerry Ford put his name on it, and Gerry Ford's word was always good."

What a very strange thing to say during a funeral. Why not talk about something more personal? It is just strange....

1 comments:

shrimplate said...

George H.W. Bush was in Dallas that fateful day.