Sometimes you really need a contrary opinion which requires a contrarian which leads us straight to the door of Christopher Hitchens. So who better to dish the dirt on Gerald Ford in his Slate article The Ugly Truth about Gerald Ford". As he sums up:
To have been soft on Republican crime, soft on Baathism, soft on the shah, soft on Indonesian fascism, and soft on Communism, all in one brief and transient presidency, argues for the sort of sportsmanlike Midwestern geniality that we do not ever need to see again.
The Ford epoch did not banish a nightmare. It ended a dream - the ideal of equal justice under the law that would extend to a crooked and venal president. And in Iraq and Indonesia and Indochina, it either protracted existing nightmares or gave birth to new ones.
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