“Rumsfeld and Cheney and the president made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq.”
– FORMER PRESIDENT GERALD FORD in a 2004 interview with journalist Bob Woodward, published following Ford’s death.
“Time has a way of clarifying past events, and now we see that President Ford was right.”
– SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY (D-Mass.) when presenting Ford with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in April 2001.