Yes, I am old enough to remember Gerald Ford being President. My only real commentary on his time as President was that, as a very young child, I apparently had some dim awareness of inflation and that things cost too much, and that poor people couldn’t afford food. (That would have been my dad’s explanation, I think. Mom would probably have explained price indexing.) Being, oh, four or five, it occurred to me that the solution to this problem would simply be to make a law that nothing should cost over $2. Naturally, the person to best implement such a law was the President.
Back in those days, when you wanted to write the President, you sat down and wrote a letter. On paper. And you mailed it with a stamp, not via e-mail or an online petition fercrissakes.
You also used your very best crayons for the job.
President Ford probably could have implemented my $2 into WIN for all the good it did the country, and for all I know he did. I was not appointed to the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, but I did receive a thank-you letter and an autographed 8″x10″ glossy photo of the President.
It was very likely read by an intern and signed with an autopen. Even before e-mail, I doubt that Ford had time to personally read and respond to his correspondence, even amusing letters by grade-schoolers. I like to think that he might have, though. He was that kind of President.
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