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Editorial: How Lieutenant Ford Saved His Ship

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/28/opinion/28drury.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
By ROBERT DRURY and TOM CLAVIN

How Lieutenant Ford Saved His Ship

Published: December 28, 2006
East Hampton, N.Y.

FOR Americans under a certain age, Gerald Ford is best remembered for his contribution to Bartlett’s — “Our long national nightmare is over” — or, more likely, for the comedian Chevy Chase’s stumbling, bumbling impersonations of him on “Saturday Night Live.” But there’s a different label we can attach to this former president, one that has been overlooked for 62 years: war hero.

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