Two months before the American presidential election, this week we meet five historical “losers” of the elections in the company of Françoise Coste, professor of American civilization at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès. In this fourth episode, La Loupe focuses on Gerald Ford, a loser who became president in spite of himself.
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Charlotte Baris: “Under my administration, there will never be of Soviet domination over the countries of Eastern Europe.” This little phrase, uttered in passing in a speech in the mid-1970s, would become a monumental blunder for several reasons. The first: at that time, all the countries of Eastern Europe were already satellites of the USSR, governed by communist regimes. The second: the person who uttered it had already been in power for almost two years.
He is perhaps one of the most unknown American presidents today: his name is Gerald Ford. He is a Republican, he governed the United States from 1974 to 1976. And since the beginning of the campaign that year, Ford has accumulated blunders and analytical errors. Errors that will cost him dearly.
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