Journalist James Cannon gave us the following reasoning in his 1994 book Time and Chance: Gerald Ford's Appointment with History, Harper Collins.
Cannon tells the story of young Dorothy Gardner fleeing her abusive husband of eleven months, Leslie King. She left on foot carrying her 16-day-old infant in her arms, after King beat her repeatedly and threatened her and her infant with a butcher knife. Later details revealed that Mrs. Gardner-King brutally punched his twenty-year-old bride in the face while on their honeymoon for nodding at a man on an elevator. Throughout their eleven-month marriage, King beat his wife repeatedly until she left him and obtained a divorce in December 1913.
Living in Harvard, Illinois, Doroothy's parents gathered their daughter and their grandson together and moved from Harvard to Grand Rapids, MI where they had Real Estate holdings. Two years later, Dorothy met and married a bachelor named Gerald Ford. Dorothy's son came to adore his stepfather and eventually took his name and almost sixty-one years after his mother fled her abusive marriage thatinfant boy was sworn in as President of the United States--August 1974.
"I was so lucky that my mother divorced my real father, who I hate to say was a bad person in many repects," concluded President Gerald Ford, "She had a lot of guts to get out of that situation. And now you know, as Paul Harvey used to tell us, "the rest of the story."
Cannon tells the story of young Dorothy Gardner fleeing her abusive husband of eleven months, Leslie King. She left on foot carrying her 16-day-old infant in her arms, after King beat her repeatedly and threatened her and her infant with a butcher knife. Later details revealed that Mrs. Gardner-King brutally punched his twenty-year-old bride in the face while on their honeymoon for nodding at a man on an elevator. Throughout their eleven-month marriage, King beat his wife repeatedly until she left him and obtained a divorce in December 1913.
Living in Harvard, Illinois, Doroothy's parents gathered their daughter and their grandson together and moved from Harvard to Grand Rapids, MI where they had Real Estate holdings. Two years later, Dorothy met and married a bachelor named Gerald Ford. Dorothy's son came to adore his stepfather and eventually took his name and almost sixty-one years after his mother fled her abusive marriage thatinfant boy was sworn in as President of the United States--August 1974.
"I was so lucky that my mother divorced my real father, who I hate to say was a bad person in many repects," concluded President Gerald Ford, "She had a lot of guts to get out of that situation. And now you know, as Paul Harvey used to tell us, "the rest of the story."
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