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President Ford In Hospital For Tests

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Former President Gerald Ford, 92, was admitted to Eisenhower Medical Center late Monday for medical tests. It is expected that he will be released Wednesday, spokeswoman Penny Circle said from the former Presidents Rancho Mirage office.

The former president has been said to be suffering from a horrible cold, he was in the hospital Tuesday for what his chief of staff called routine medical tests.

“He’s in for medical tests, routine tests… He’s had a horrible cold and he still hasn’t gotten over it.,” Circle told The Associated Press by telephone.

President Ford was the first Vice President selected under the terms of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to assume the Presidency. Following the resignation of Spiro Agnew in 1973, Richard Nixon nominated Gerald Ford to the position of Vice President; Ford was approved by both houses of Congress.

Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office on August 9, 1974, and at the time he took office he declared, “I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances…. This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.”

President Ford succeeded the first President ever to resign, President Nixon. President Ford completed the rest of Nixon’s original terms and went on to win the Republican nomination for the Presidency in 1976. However, he lost the election to D-Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia.

Gerald Ford is the 40th (1973–1974) Vice President and the 38th (1974–1977) President of the United States. He still remains the only individual to serve as President without ever having been elected to either the presidency or vice presidency.

Prior to becoming the Vice President, Gerald Ford served 25 years in Congress. From 1965 to 1973 he was House Minority Leader.

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