He was their answer to LBJ and the Great Society, but he will always be remembered for Watergate, instead. It seems like every time the GOP tries to come up with a new Reagan, they wind up with a new Hoover, instead.

And they certainly don't forgive the Left for taking Spiro Agnew down, either. He was Nixon's insurance policy. If you don't remember who HE was, he's certainly worth a lookup.

Ford was a good, decent man, in spite of his politics. But by that time, the backlash against the Right was simply too much for him. Like Joe Biden many years later, he got the totally undeserved reputation as a good-natured, but not-too-bright, well-meaning but clumsy oaf.

Too bad, either one would have made a good President if they'd been given a chance.