Gerald R. Ford Quotes
I hope we do have a young lady at some point become president of the United States. I can tell you how I think it will happen, because it won’t happen in the normal course of events.
Either the Republican or Democrat political party will nominate a man for president and a woman for vice president. And the woman and man will win. So you’ll end up with a president, a male, and a vice president, a female. And in that term of office of the president, the president will die, and the woman will become president under the law—or Constitution.
And once that barrier is broken, from then on, men better be careful, because they’ll have a hard, hard time ever even getting a nomination in the future. But that’s the way it’s going to happen, and I think it’ll probably come sometime in the next four or eight years.
Former President Gerald Ford, took questions after a speech to schoolchildren at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch, Iowa, October 18, 1989. His response above is to a question from a girl in the audience: “Mr. Ford, what advice would you give a young lady wanting to become president of the United States?”
She was running for the Democratic Presidential Nomination.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician and attorney who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. A member of the Republican Party, Ford previously served as the 40th vice president of the United States from 1973 to 1974. To date, Ford is the only person to have served as both vice president and president without being elected to either office by the Electoral College.
