One of my earliest posts (scroll down the August 06 Archive) was on the subject of President Gerald Ford. There's been plenty of other tributes to the Great Healer the past week or so. RIP #38.
These events remind of a joke I heard during the Carter administration:
A small plane carrying President Carter, President Ford, Heny Kissinger, a priest and a hippie develops engine trouble, and the pilot and co-pilot immediately bail out, leaving only four parachutes for the five passengers.
President Carter says, "well, I'm president of the United States -- I'm certainly entitled to one." He grabs a parachute and jumps out.
President Ford says, "I've got an important golf game that I can't miss." He grabs a parachute and jumps out.
Kissinger says, "I have to be at a state department reunion tonight." He grabs a parachute and jumps out.
That leaves the priest and the hippie. The priest says, "well, I've lived a good, long life, young man. You can have the last parachute."
The hippie replies, "no way, man -- we can both make it."
"What do you mean?" asks the priest.
"The smartest man in the world just jumped out of the plane with my knapsack."
Somehow I don't think Henry would find that all that funny.
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