Oldest Living Former President Death Watch

Brian Doherty | August 16, 2006

Start getting ready now to remember where you were when you heard President Ford died: the 93-year-old unelected president has entered the Mayo Clinic "for evaluation."

Some random things to remember him by, when the time comes: Consistently in the mid-20s in presidential greatness rankings, he pardoned both Nixon and the woman accused of being "Tokyo Rose" (who did not, as any single person, actually exist), and proved you could get most Americans to line up and be injected with something by the government for rather flimsy reasons. With him would die any remaining secrets of the Warren Commission, of which he is now the last surviving member.