Gerald R. Ford Library Oral History Projects. 1981 - 2006. Oral History Interview Transcripts. 1981 - 2006. Coleman, William T., Jr. (Secretary of Transportation) - Oral History Interview, March 27, 1997
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Gerald Rudolph Ford, the 38th President of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., the son of Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King, on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents separated two weeks after his birth, and his mother took him to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to live with her parents. On February 1, 1916, approximately two years after her divorce was final, Dorothy King married Gerald R. Ford, a Grand Rapids paint salesman. The Fords began calling her son Gerald ...
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