"Never explain, never complain," Henry Ford II said after wrecking a car that was not a Ford, accompanied by a lovely woman who was not his wife. This mantra, not original with Ford and always handy, could be the motto of the Bush administration. It has veered from one policy to another, changed direction on a dime, said one thing and done another -- all ... of rebuilding Iraq -- may represent Bush's last chance. In diplomacy, in foreign affairs, in the waging of war and maybe in protecting America, he has made mistake after mistake. Like Henry Ford II, he may never complain and he may never...

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... oath of office and became President. Eight Presidents died in office and one resigned. The eight Presidents who died in office and their Vice Presidents who succeeded them were: William Henry Harrison - John Tyler; Zachary Taylor - Millard Fillmore; Abraham Lincoln - Andrew Johnson; James A. Garfield - Chester A. Arthur; William McKinley - Theodore Roosevelt; Warren G. Harding - Calvin Coolidge; Franklin D. Roosevelt - Harry S. Truman; ... and John F. Kennedy - Lyndon B. Johnson. The President who resigned was Richard M. Nixon and he was succeeded by his Vice President, Gerald R. Ford. ...

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... produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. In January 1973, he announced an accord with North Viet Nam to end American involvement in Indochina. In 1974, his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, negotiated disengagement agreements between Israel and its opponents, Egypt and Syria. In his 1972 bid for office, Nixon defeated Democratic candidate George McGovern by one of the widest margins ... , in fact, tried to divert the investigation. As a result of unrelated scandals in Maryland, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned in 1973. Nixon nominated, and Congress approved, House M...

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