Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former President of the Ford Motor Company, comes from a generation different from that of Eisenhower's own first Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who had been head of General Motors.

His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.

* Gerald Ford often rode his snowmobile around Camp David and hosted Indonesian President Suharto.

" That same year, then-U. S. President Gerald Ford acknowledged the stature of the comic strip, telling the Radio and Television Correspondents ’ Association at their annual dinner, " There are only three major vehicles to keep us informed as to what is going on in Washington: the electronic media, the print media, and Doonesbury, not necessarily in that order.

* 1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States ( on November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3 ).

Rumsfeld served as the 13th Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and as the 21st Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush.

In 1979, Parton hosted the NBC special The Seventies: An Explosion of Country Music, performed live at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D. C., and whose audience included President Jimmy Carter.

" Four years later, Gerald Ford would become president when President Richard Nixon resigned under the threat of impeachment.

* John T. Ford ( 1829 – 1894 ), American theatre owner and manager ; 1865 assassination of President Lincoln occurred in one of his venues, Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. C.

* John Gardner Ford ( born 1952 ), American business executive who co-founded Outside magazine in 1977 ; second son of President Gerald R. Ford ; best known as Jack Ford

On January 10, 1977, John Bardeen was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Gerald Ford.

* 1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D ' Aquino ( a. k. a. " Tokyo Rose ").

On 23 Dec 1975, President Gerald Ford signed Public Law 94-168, the Metric Conversion Act of 1975.

Governor Reagan's term ended in 1975, and he did not run for a third ; instead, he met with advisors to discuss a possible bid for the presidency in 1976, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.

Human rights groups condemned the actions, but U. S. President Gerald Ford refused to break the U. S. alliance with Somoza.

* 1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States ( on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35 ).

One example is the outing of Oliver Sipple ( who saved the life of U. S. President Gerald Ford during an assassination attempt ) by gay activists, most prominently Harvey Milk.

* 1976 – George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.

Subsequently, on December 27, 1989, Panama's Electoral Tribunal invalidated the Noriega regime's annulment of the May 1989 election and confirmed the victory of opposition candidates under the leadership of President Guillermo Endara and Vice Presidents Guillermo Ford and Ricardo Arias Calderón.

Trudeau wrote in his memoirs that U. S. President Gerald Ford arranged this, and expressed sincere appreciation.

The unemployment averaged 6. 4 percent under President Carter and 7. 8 percent under President Ford.

Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.

He played one of Lee Marvin's villainous henchmen in the 1962 John Ford classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, with James Stewart and John Wayne.

The character was also featured in the 1993 film The Fugitive, based loosely on the original series, starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones as a United States marshal in pursuit of him.

* The Fugitive ( 1993 film ), a film starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, based on the TV series ( see below )

Popular music stars in the early 1950s included Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Frankie Laine, Patti Page, Judy Garland, Johnnie Ray, Kay Starr, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Dean Martin, Georgia Gibbs, Eddie Fisher, Teresa Brewer, Dinah Shore, Kitty Kallen, Joni James, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Toni Arden, June Valli, Doris Day, Arthur Godfrey, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Guy Mitchell, Nat King Cole, and vocal groups like The Mills Brothers, The Ink Spots, The Four Lads, The Four Aces, The Chordettes, Fontane Sisters, The Hilltoppers and The Ames Brothers.

* August 5 – U. S. President Ford posthumously restores the U. S. citizenship of General Robert E. Lee, leader of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.

* September 5 – American Civil War: In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55, 000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia, into Maryland.

Several movies have been filmed in the county including the 1993 blockbuster action-adventure The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, the 1972 drama Deliverance, and the 1996 comedy My Fellow Americans starring Jack Lemmon and James Garner.

It was named after Brigadier General William Lee Davidson, an American Revolutionary War general killed at the Battle of Cowan's Ford on the Catawba River in 1781.

In 1971, Cecil Beaton curated an exhibition of 1, 200 20th-century high-fashion garments and accessories, including gowns worn by leading socialites such as Patricia Lopez-Willshaw, Gloria Guinness and Lee Radziwill, and actresses such as Audrey Hepburn and Ruth Ford.

As Lee Iacocca's assistant general manager and chief engineer, Donald N. Frey was the head engineer for the T-5 project — supervising the overall development of the car in a record 18 months — while Iacocca himself championed the project as Ford Division general manager.

Lee Iacocca, who had been one of the forces behind the original Mustang, became President of Ford Motor Company in 1970 and ordered a smaller, more fuel-efficient Mustang for 1974.

Multiple other elementary schools once operated in the city, including Roosevelt, Lee O. Clark, Longfellow, Henry Ford and Edison Elementaries.

Lee O. Clark has since been demolished, and Henry Ford has been converted into the School District Administration Building.

Italian Americans have served as CEO ’ s of numerous major corporations, such as the Ford Motor Company and Chrysler Corporation by Lee Iacocca, IBM Corporation by Samuel Palmisano, Lucent Technologies by Patricia Russo, The New York Stock Exchange by Richard Grasso and Honeywell Incorporated by Michael Bonsignore.

Segments of the motion picture The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones were filmed at Cheoah Dam close to Robbinsville.

The train wreck scene in the 1993 blockbuster movie The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones was filmed in Off The Rip along the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad.

* The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles, Edmond O ' Brien, Woody Strode

* Albert Lee: Henry Ford and the Jews.

Lido Anthony " Lee " Iacocca ( ; born October 15, 1924 ) is an American businessman known for engineering the Ford Mustang and Ford Pinto cars, being let go from Ford Motor Company, and his revival of the Chrysler Corporation in the 1980s.

By promoting the big-engine Tempest as a special high-performance model, they could appeal to the speed-minded youth market ( which had also been recognized by Ford Motor Company's Lee Iacocca, who was at that time preparing the Ford Mustang ).