noun
38th President of the United States; appointed vice president and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-)
• Syn: ↑Ford, ↑Gerald R. Ford, ↑Gerald Rudolph Ford, ↑President Ford
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑President of the United States, ↑United States President, ↑President, ↑Chief Executive
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(1913–2006) the 38th US ↑President. He was a Republican who was Vice-President under Richard Nixon and replaced him in 1974, after ↑Watergate. Ford was criticized for giving Nixon a ↑pardon (= official notice forgiving somebody) for Watergate. Ford could not change the poor economic condition of the US at that time, and he lost the next election in 1976 to Jimmy Carter.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.