Comments on: Gerald R. Ford: 1913 - 2006 http://tweblog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-r-ford-1913-2006/ geek w/ social skillz - because i got stuff to say Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:57:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Tudor http://tweblog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-r-ford-1913-2006/#comment-3676 Tudor Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:37:35 +0000 http://tweblog.com/2006/12/27/gerald-r-ford-1913-2006/#comment-3676 Gerald Ford seems also to have been someone who could stand for Service Leadership. He didn't look for high office - although it found him. That was partly because he wasn't Spiro Agnew , then because he most certainly wasn't Richard Nixon. He just might have won the Presidential race, but President Carter had a somewhat similar character, and Ford had no such asset over him in the tight race which followed. Naturally, the young and liberal couldn't see much beyond Ford's apparent directness and black and white thinking at the time (I was one of them). Curiously, a British business leader of similar characteristics died around the same time this week. That was Marmaduke Hussey, former chief of the BBC brought in by Margaret Thatcher. I see both men falling into the category of leaders we deserve, and am thinking of adding a theme of legacy of leaders we deserve on my Blog. Gerald Ford seems also to have been someone who could stand for Service Leadership. He didn’t look for high office - although it found him. That was partly because he wasn’t Spiro Agnew , then because he most certainly wasn’t Richard Nixon. He just might have won the Presidential race, but President Carter had a somewhat similar character, and Ford had no such asset over him in the tight race which followed. Naturally, the young and liberal couldn’t see much beyond Ford’s apparent directness and black and white thinking at the time (I was one of them).

Curiously, a British business leader of similar characteristics died around the same time this week. That was Marmaduke Hussey, former chief of the BBC brought in by Margaret Thatcher.

I see both men falling into the category of leaders we deserve, and am thinking of adding a theme of legacy of leaders we deserve on my Blog.

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