One of the nation’s first campaign consultants for hire, he advised leading Republicans, including President Gerald Ford, but Reagan was his prized candidate.

May 1975 - Cambodia seizes the American ship Mayaguez. Ford sends in the Navy, Marines and Air Force. The ship is retaken and the crew of 39 is rescued, although 41 American service members are killed as a result of the operation. July 8, 1975 - Formally announces he will seek the Republican nomination for the presidency in 1976.

As history shows, the concept of America as an expansive global empire can be an intoxicating political force.

Gerald Ford’s son Steve Ford read his father's eulogy for Jimmy Carter at Thursday's funeral service, drawing a few smiles, laughs, and tears.

He was adopted by his mother’s second husband, Gerald Ford ... nomination for president over Ronald Reagan. November 1, 1976 – Jimmy Carter defeats Ford in the presidential election.

The late President Gerald Ford commemorated his friend and fellow President Jimmy Carter in a touching eulogy that was read at Carter’s funeral Thursday by Ford’s son.

Donald Trump told thousands of roaring supporters he would impose severe limits on immigration on his first day in office, vowing to swiftly fulfill the central promise of his presidential campaign at a rally on Sunday inside a packed Washington arena a day before he

In the 1970s, a conservative coalition came together to fight ceding control of the Panama Canal—proving the political potency of the issue.

President-elect Donald Trump surprised many earlier this month when at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, he declined to assure the public that he would not use military coercion against Panama. Trump suggested he would consider using military force to gain or regain control of the Panama Canal.

Carter was narrowly elected, garnering 50.1 percent of the vote to Ford’s 48, as the president made a late charge to almost overcome a double-digit deficit in the polls. The two presidents had a chilly relationship after that contest.

Nanda Pethiyagoda While the USA is respectfully giving its 39th President a state funeral in Washington DC and a final internment in Plains, Georgia, President-elect Donald Trump is threateningly shooting his mouth to Denmark over his claim for Greenland;

Thursday concluded six days of national rites that began in Plains, where Carter, a former Naval officer, engineer and peanut farmer, was born in 1924, lived most of his life and died after 22 months in hospice care.