Charlie Wilson On Gerald Ford

The Pine Blog in deep East Texas has an interview with former Congressman Charlie Wilson (whose book, Charlie Wilson’s War will soon be a movie starring Tom Hanks) about former President Gerald Ford.

Check it out, but here is an interesting snippit:

PB: NBC Nightly News’ anchor Brian Williams wrote the following on his blog: “The truth is Jerry Ford was a nice man. He was decent, courageous, honest..and a loving and faithful partner to his wife, a wonderful and trailblazing woman. By today’s political standards, he just might be a liberal.” Was Gerald Ford a liberal?

CW: I don’t think that’s correct. He was pro-environment and would have probably been for stem-cell research, but he was the kind of conservative that I admire. Ford was a very strong fiscal conservative that abhorred deficit spending. He was a much better conservative than the current president as far as maintaining a conservative spending policy. And, he wouldn’t have started optional wars.

“Optional wars?” Gotta love Charlie Wilson for giving me a new phrase to use from time to time. I wonder what else you can slap “optional” in front of and have it sound as good as Wilson does? “Optional Speakership” perhaps?

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