A Quote by Tom Brokaw

In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private. — © Tom Brokaw
In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private.
The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.
Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.
Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.
In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity; and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties.
Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the terrible trauma of Watergate - the lies, distortions, cover-ups, misuses of federal agencies to exact political revenge, illegal wiretapping, burglaries.
Bob Dylan is either the most public private man in the world or the most private public one. He has a reputation for being silent and reclusive; he is neither.
In The Bob Hope Golf Classic (LWT) the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye.
US President Gerald Ford's golf was so bad we thought he was a 'Hitman for the PGA!
I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.
In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private.
I don't remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.
Harrison Ford... I love him. He's a man's man.
No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.
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