First Eagle Scout to be president ... 1999 – The University of Michigan renames its School of Public Policy the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. August 2, 2000 – Suffers a mild stroke ...

Just a handful of youth who enter Scouts work their up to the rank of Eagle, only about four-percent who join. Among other ...

After completing an Eagle Scout project, the Lincoln-Way East junior has achieved a designation also reached by former President Gerald Ford, astronaut Neil Armstrong, former New York Mayor ...

May 1975 - Cambodia seizes the American ship Mayaguez. Ford sends in the Navy, Marines and Air Force. The ship is retaken and the crew of 39 is rescued, although 41 American service members are killed ...