Then There Was That Day When Gerald Ford Half-Strangled A Reporter...
In 1974, Daily News bureau chief Tom DeFrank heard some surprisingly frank words from a pre-presidential Gerald Ford:
One afternoon, DeFrank found himself alone with the veep — Ford’s press secretary had fallen asleep next door. Ford was taking hits from Nixon loyalists who thought he wasn’t sufficiently supportive. “Dick Nixon knows I’ve been loyal,” Ford groused. “Why do they do this?” DeFrank blurted his opinion: Nixon supporters were angry because he was finished and Ford would become president.
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