An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. FordDrawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents, Smith recreates Fords hardscrabble childhood in Michigan, his early anti establishment politics and his lifelong love affair with the former Betty Bloomer, whose impact on American culture he predicted would outrank his own. As president, Ford guided the nation through its worst Constitutional crisis since the Civil War and broke the back of the most severe economic downturn since the Great