A report on Democratic Party (United States), Republican Party (United States) and Gerald Ford

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States (1829–1837) and the first Democratic president.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States (1861–1865) and the first Republican to hold the office

The Gunnery officers of USS Monterey (CVL-26), 1943. Ford is second from the right, in the front row.

Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States (1837–1841) and the second Democratic president.

Charles R. Jennison, an anti-slavery militia leader associated with the Jayhawkers from Kansas and an early Republican politician in the region

A billboard for Ford's 1948 congressional campaign from Michigan's 5th district

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869–1877)

The Warren Commission (Ford 4th from left) presents its report to President Johnson (1964)

The 1885 inauguration of Grover Cleveland, the only president with non-consecutive terms

James G. Blaine, 28th & 31st Secretary of State (1881; 1889–1892)

Congressman Gerald Ford, MSFC director Wernher von Braun, Congressman George H. Mahon, and NASA Administrator James E. Webb visit the Marshall Space Flight Center for a briefing on the Saturn program, 1964.

Leaders of the Democratic Party during the first half of the 20th century on 14 June 1913: Secretary of State William J. Bryan, Josephus Daniels, President Woodrow Wilson, Breckinridge Long, William Phillips, and Franklin D. Roosevelt

William McKinley, 25th president of the United States (1897–1901)

Gerald and Betty Ford with the President and First Lady Pat Nixon after President Nixon nominated Ford to be vice president, October 13, 1973.

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, 32nd and 33rd presidents of the United States (1933–1945; 1945–1953), featured on a campaign poster for the 1944 presidential election

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States (1901–1909)

Gerald Ford is sworn in as president by Chief Justice Warren Burger in the White House East Room, while Betty Ford looks on.

John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 35th and 36th presidents of the United States (1961–1963, 1963–1969)

Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929–1933)

President Ford appears at a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing in reference to his pardon of Richard Nixon

Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States (1977–1981), delivering the State of the Union Address in 1979

Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States (1981–1989)

Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), at The Pentagon in 1998

Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States (2017–2021)

Ford and his golden retriever, Liberty, in the Oval Office, 1974

Barack Obama speaking to College Democrats of America in 2007

Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States (1923–1929)

Cheney, Rumsfeld and Ford in the Oval Office, 1975

President Barack Obama meeting with the Blue Dog Coalition in the State Dining Room of the White House in 2009

Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th governor of California (2003–2011)

Ford meets with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to sign a joint communiqué on the SALT treaty during the Vladivostok Summit, November 1974

Eleanor Roosevelt at the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

John McCain, United States senator from Arizona (1987–2018)

Countries visited by Ford during his presidency

President Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law at the White House on March 23, 2010

Donald Rumsfeld, 21st United States Secretary of Defense (2001–2006)

Secretary of State John Kerry addressing delegates at the United Nations before signing the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016

Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State (2001–2005)

Ford and his daughter Susan watch as Henry Kissinger (right) shakes hands with Mao Zedong, December 2, 1975

Shirley Chisholm was the first major-party African American candidate to run nationwide primary campaigns.

Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives (1995–1999)

Indonesian President Suharto with Ford and Kissinger in Jakarta on December 6, 1975, one day before the Indonesian invasion of East Timor.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Immigration Act of 1965 as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and others look on

Annual population growth in the U.S. by county - 2010s

Reaction immediately after the second assassination attempt

Then-Senator Barack Obama shaking hands with an American soldier in Basra, Iraq in 2008

This map shows the vote in the 2020 presidential election by county.

John Paul Stevens, Ford's only Supreme Court appointment.

President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1978

Political Spectrum Libertarian Left Centrist Right Authoritarian

Governor Ronald Reagan congratulates President Ford after the president successfully wins the 1976 Republican nomination, while Bob Dole, Nancy Reagan, and Nelson Rockefeller look on.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with President Barack Obama at Ben Gurion Airport in 2013

U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey.

Jimmy Carter and Ford in a presidential debate, September 23, 1976.

Self-identified Democrats (blue) versus self-identified Republicans (red) (January–June 2010 data)

Higher percentages of Democrats than Republicans are members of union households.

On July 16, 1980 (day 3 of the 1980 Republican National Convention) Gerald Ford consults with Bob Dole, Howard Baker and Bill Brock before making a decision to ultimately decline the offer to serve as Ronald Reagan's running mate

Elected at age 33, Jon Ossoff is currently the youngest member of the U.S. Senate.

Ford joins President Bill Clinton and former presidents George H. W. Bush and Jimmy Carter on stage at the dedication of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University, November 6, 1997

Hillary Clinton was the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party.

Ford at his 90th birthday with Laura Bush, President George W. Bush, and Betty Ford in the White House State Dining Room in 2003

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg

Ford lying in state in the Capitol rotunda

The Fords on their wedding day, October 15, 1948

Julián Castro served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

President George W. Bush with Ford and his wife Betty on April 23, 2006

Its main political rival has been the Republican Party since the 1850s.

- Democratic Party (United States)

Since the mid-1850s, it has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party.

- Republican Party (United States)

He previously served as the leader of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, and as the 40th vice president from 1973 to 1974.

- Gerald Ford

In the 1976 Republican presidential primary campaign, Ford defeated former California Governor Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination, but narrowly lost the presidential election to the Democratic challenger, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter.

- Gerald Ford

He was succeeded by vice president Gerald Ford, who served a brief tenure.

- Democratic Party (United States)

The second half of the 20th century saw the election or succession of Republican presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

- Republican Party (United States)

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Ronald Reagan

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American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

Ronald Reagan's boyhood home in Dixon, Illinois

Capt. Ronald Reagan at Fort Roach, 1943 or 1944.

Guest stars for the premiere of The Dick Powell Show, 1961. Reagan can be seen wearing a ten-gallon hat on the far left.

Reagan testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee, October 1947

Reagan and his first wife Jane Wyman, 1942

Wedding of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, 1952. Matron of honor Brenda Marshall (left) and best man William Holden (right) were the sole guests.

Nancy and Ronald Reagan aboard a boat in California, 1964

The Reagans meet with President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon, July 1970

Reagan and President Ford shake hands on the podium after Reagan narrowly lost the nomination at the 1976 Republican National Convention

Ronald Reagan, moderator Jon Breen, and Bush participate in the Nashua, New Hampshire presidential debate, 1980

President and Mrs. Reagan at the 1981 inauguration parade

Supreme Court justice-nominee Sandra Day O'Connor talks with Reagan outside the White House, July 15, 1981.

Reagan outlines his plan for Tax Reduction Legislation in a televised address from the Oval Office, July 1981

Reagan addresses Congress on the Program for Economic Recovery, April 28, 1981 (a few weeks after surviving the assassination attempt)

As the first U.S. president invited to speak before the British Parliament (June 8, 1982), Reagan predicted Marxism–Leninism would end up on the "ash heap of history".

Meeting with leaders of the Afghan Mujahideen in the Oval Office, 1983

Reagan with actress Sigourney Weaver and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in 1985. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia supplied money and arms to the anti-Soviet fighters in Afghanistan.

Reagan (far left) and First Lady Nancy Reagan pay their respects to the 17 American victims of the April 18 attack on the U.S. embassy by Hezbollah in Beirut, 1983

1984 presidential electoral votes by state. Reagan (red) won every state except Mondale's home state of Minnesota; Mondale also carried the District of Columbia.

Reagan is sworn in for a second term as president by Chief Justice Burger in the Capitol rotunda

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (here with Reagan in 1986) granted the U.S. use of British airbases to launch the Libya attack.

Reagan (center) receives the Tower Commission Report regarding the Iran-Contra affair in the Cabinet Room with John Tower (left) and Edmund Muskie (right)

Challenging Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" at the Brandenburg Gate, June 12, 1987

Gorbachev and Reagan sign the INF Treaty at the White House, December 1987

The Reagans with a model of USS Ronald Reagan, May 1996

Reagan lying in state in the Capitol rotunda

A bronze statue of Reagan standing in the National Statuary Hall Collection

President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev, 1985

Approval ratings for President Reagan (Gallup)

Former President Reagan returns to the White House to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bush, 1993

{{circa}} 1916–17. Pictured from left: Father Jack, older brother Neil, Reagan (with "Dutchboy" haircut), and mother Nelle

1920s. As a teenager, in Dixon, Illinois

{{circa|lk=no|1960}}. Hosting General Electric Theater

A member of the Republican Party starting in 1962, he previously served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975 after a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader.

After failed presidential bids in 1968 and 1976, challenging and nearly defeating sitting president Gerald Ford in the latter's Republican primaries, Reagan easily won the Republican nomination in the 1980 presidential election and went on to defeat incumbent Democratic president Jimmy Carter.

George H. W. Bush

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American politician, diplomat, and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993.

George H. W. Bush at his grandfather's house in Kennebunkport, c. 1925

Bush in his Grumman TBF Avenger aboard USS San Jacinto in 1944

Bush in Phillips Academy's 1942 yearbook

Bush, top right, stood with his wife and children, mid-1960s

Former president Dwight D. Eisenhower with Bush

Bush greeting then California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1967

Bush as ambassador to the United Nations, 1971

Bush, as CIA Director, listens at a meeting following the assassinations in Beirut of Francis E. Meloy Jr. and Robert O. Waring, 1976

The Reagan–Bush ticket won the 1980 presidential election with 50.7% of the popular vote and a large majority of the electoral vote

Official portrait of Vice President Bush, 1981

Reagan and Bush in a meeting to discuss the United States' invasion of Grenada with a group of bipartisan members of Congress in October 1983

Vice President Bush standing with President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on the New York City waterfront in 1988

John Ashcroft and Vice President Bush campaign in St. Louis, Missouri, 1988

Bush won the 1988 presidential election with 53.4% of the popular vote and a large majority of the electoral vote

Chief Justice William Rehnquist administers the Presidential Oath of Office to George H. W. Bush

Map showing the division of East and West Germany until 1990, with Berlin in yellow

Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev at the Helsinki Summit in 1990

In 1991, the Soviet Union dissolved into fifteen independent republics, including Russia (labeled 11)

Iraq (green) invaded Kuwait (orange) in 1990

Bush meets with Robert Gates, General Colin Powell, Secretary Dick Cheney and others about the situation in the Persian Gulf, 1991

From left to right: (standing) President Carlos Salinas, President Bush, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney; (seated) Jaime Serra Puche, Carla Hills, and Michael Wilson at the NAFTA Initialing Ceremony, October 1992

Bush appointed Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court in 1991

Bush's approval ratings (red) compared to his disapproval ratings (blue) during his presidency

Bush was defeated in the 1992 presidential election by Bill Clinton

President Bill Clinton meeting with former presidents George H. W. Bush and Jimmy Carter at the White House in September 1993

From left to right: George H. W. Bush, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter

Members of the public pay their respects at the casket of George H. W. Bush lying in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Bush visits NAS JRB during Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, 2005

The George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on the west campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, 2011

A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 43rd vice president from 1981 to 1989 under Ronald Reagan, in the U.S. House of Representatives, as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and as Director of Central Intelligence.

In 1974, President Gerald Ford appointed him as the [[List of ambassadors of the United States to China#List of Chiefs of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing|Chief of the Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China]], and in 1976 Bush became the Director of Central Intelligence.

By the early 1960s, Bush was widely regarded as an appealing political candidate, and some leading Democrats attempted to convince Bush to become a Democrat.

1980 United States presidential election

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The 49th quadrennial presidential election.

Ronald Reagan campaigning with his wife Nancy and Senator Strom Thurmond in Columbia, South Carolina, October 10, 1980

Ronald Reagan shaking hands with supporters at a campaign stop in Indiana

President Carter (left) and former Governor Reagan (right) at the presidential debate on October 28, 1980

Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote

Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic president Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory.

This was the second successive election in which the incumbent president was defeated, after Carter himself defeated Gerald Ford four years earlier in 1976.

Alabama police in 1965 attack voting rights marchers on "Bloody Sunday", the first of the Selma to Montgomery marches

Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.

United States President Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks at the signing of the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965

United States President George W. Bush signs amendments to the Act in July 2006

The first page of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

States and counties encompassed by the Act's coverage formula in January 2008 (excluding bailed-out jurisdictions). Several counties subsequently bailed out, but the majority of the map accurately depicts covered jurisdictions before the Supreme Court's decision in Shelby County v. Holder (2013), which declared the coverage formula unconstitutional.

Final page of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the Senate Hubert Humphrey, and Speaker of the House John McCormack

President Lyndon B. Johnson recognized this, and shortly after the 1964 elections in which Democrats gained overwhelming majorities in both chambers of Congress, he privately instructed Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach to draft "the goddamndest, toughest voting rights act that you can".

He enlisted Dirksen to help gain Republican support.

McCulloch's bill was co-sponsored by House minority leader Gerald Ford (R-MI) and supported by Southern Democrats as an alternative to the Voting Rights Act.

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

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Presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives.

Frederick Muhlenberg (1789–1791, 1793–1795), was the first speaker.

Henry Clay (1811–1814, 1815–1820, 1823–1825) used his influence as speaker to ensure the passage of measures he favored

Joseph Gurney Cannon (1903–1911) was one of the most powerful speakers.

Sam Rayburn (1940–1947; 1949–1953; and 1955–1961) was the longest serving speaker

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (right) with Vice President Dick Cheney behind President George W. Bush at the 2007 State of the Union Address making history as the first woman to sit behind the podium at such an address. President Bush acknowledged this by beginning his speech with the words, "Tonight, I have a high privilege and distinct honor of my own — as the first president to begin the State of the Union message with these words: Madam Speaker".

Paul Ryan taking the oath of office upon becoming speaker on October 29, 2015

James Polk is the only speaker to also serve as president of the United States.

The speaker's office in the US Capitol, during the term of Dennis Hastert (1999–2007)

The current House speaker is Democrat Nancy Pelosi of California.

Anyone who votes for the other party's candidate would face serious consequences, as was the case when Democrat James Traficant voted for Republican Dennis Hastert in 2001 (107th Congress).

The vacancy continued until Gerald Ford was sworn in as vice president on December 6, 1973.