Mar 8, 2022 · Last summer, when President Joe Biden evacuated the remaining U.S. troops out of Afghanistan — ending the longest war in the country’s history — many felt it paralleled President Gerald...

Aug 17, 2021 · Joe Biden’s Kabul Is Not Gerald Ford’s Saigon In the 70s, Americans saw Ford as a president who had lost control of the levers—abroad and at home. That’s not the case for Biden...

Jul 9, 2021 · A transcript of an April 14, 1975, meeting with U.S. President Gerald Ford and other senators in the Oval Office shows Biden, then a 32-year-old freshman senator, was resistant to any...

Jul 4, 2019 · As South Vietnam collapsed at the end of the Vietnam War in the spring of 1975, President Gerald Ford and the U.S. government undertook to evacuate thousands of South Vietnamese families who...

Aug 16, 2021 · But The New York Times' Nate Cohn pointed out that former President Gerald Ford — who was in the White House at the time of the evacuation and, like President Biden, overseeing the end to a...

Sep 8, 2022 · A Young Joe Biden Mocked Gerald Ford's 'Whip Inflation Now' Slogan. Now He Faces His Own Inflation Mess. During his own inflation crisis, President Ford called on the American public to...

Jan 13, 2014 · Biden "voted against the aid package for South Vietnam." On April 10, 1975, President Gerald Ford requested Congress to provide nearly $1 billion in military and humanitarian aid to South...

Apr 13, 2021 · President Gerald Ford tried to sway Biden by reminding him of the American tradition of welcoming refugees from war and oppression, but Biden was unmoved.

Aug 7, 2023 · Both were considered unlikely presidents who assumed office in unconventional ways and in moments of upheaval: Ford by the resignation of his predecessor, Biden by way of the first virtual ...