Gerald Ford // #38

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Written By Heather Rogers, presidential doodler

VICE PRESIDENT TO RICHARD NIXON / #37

  • Born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.

  • Right-handed when standing and left-handed when sitting.

  • Used to model — was on a steamy Cosmo cover.

  • The Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers both tried to recruit him, but he turned them down for law school.

  • To pay for college, he got a job coaching football and (during the off season) coaching boxing. He’d never boxed before.

  • Brought in to replace the super-duper corrupt Spiro Agnew so that when Nixon was ousted, he wouldn’t be replaced with someone even worse.

  • A tamale faux-pas may have cost him Texas (it was the last time Texas went Democrat).

Heather Rogers, presidential doodler

I’ve read at least one book about every U.S. president, never tire of shoehorning presidential trivia into conversations, and am basically an expert at hiding mistakes in my sketchbooks.

https://potuspages.com
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