The Hill News

This week, at the dedication of a statue of President Gerald R. Ford, our 38th President, former vice president, U.S. Representative for 25 years and House Minority Leader for eight , he was praised as a bipartisan leader, a man who brought a country together in an economic and politically turbulent time.

“Politics is a clash of ideas, not a blood sport,” Ford himself once said in a speech long after his Presidency.

It is especially fitting that his statue was revealed in another, similar era: a divisive political climate as we fight over the best way forward on a budget, as our nation struggles with economic difficulties that have now surpassed those even Ford faced.

As Members pass through the Rotunda, we now have a reminder that calm leadership, listening instead of shouting, and forging relationships across the aisle that brought solutions while not compromising his core principles is how Ford moved our country forward during tha! t tumultuous time.

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