Marvin S
02-28-2010, 05:29 PM
Today as I read the Real Estate section of our local newspaper a highlighted article stood out:
GERALD FORD SLEPT HERE & NOW IT'S FOR SALE
"A home that former President Gerald Ford once owned in a Colorado ski resort town is for sale. The current owners of the Beaver Creek residence have listed it for sale with Forbes Sotheby's International Realty at a hearty $13 million.
Ford's wife, Betty, sold the home after Ford died in 2006 at age 93.
The seven bedroom has more than 11,000 square feet, an indoor pool & views of the Beaver Creek ski area."
I sincerely hope some of you have the same thoughts I do. Here's a guy who played FB at MI (LBJ said too many times with his helmet off :)), I believe went to law school & into Congress, became Speaker, appointed as VP & became an unelected POTUS.
Basically, he never held any really high paying position & his entire career was spent as a politico. Where did he come up with the wherewithal to own a home this grand? & I don't believe it was his only home.
When Harry Truman (the last good Democratic POTUS) retired in 1952 there was NO pension, & Truman refused one at 1st. I can't remember the circumstances under which they got him to accept the $25K per year. & he lived in the house he had lived in as a haberdasher with his wife, Bess.
GERALD FORD SLEPT HERE & NOW IT'S FOR SALE
"A home that former President Gerald Ford once owned in a Colorado ski resort town is for sale. The current owners of the Beaver Creek residence have listed it for sale with Forbes Sotheby's International Realty at a hearty $13 million.
Ford's wife, Betty, sold the home after Ford died in 2006 at age 93.
The seven bedroom has more than 11,000 square feet, an indoor pool & views of the Beaver Creek ski area."
I sincerely hope some of you have the same thoughts I do. Here's a guy who played FB at MI (LBJ said too many times with his helmet off :)), I believe went to law school & into Congress, became Speaker, appointed as VP & became an unelected POTUS.
Basically, he never held any really high paying position & his entire career was spent as a politico. Where did he come up with the wherewithal to own a home this grand? & I don't believe it was his only home.
When Harry Truman (the last good Democratic POTUS) retired in 1952 there was NO pension, & Truman refused one at 1st. I can't remember the circumstances under which they got him to accept the $25K per year. & he lived in the house he had lived in as a haberdasher with his wife, Bess.