Television reporters remember Ford's term

December 28, 2006 Reporters who covered the Ford administration said he was nothing like the stumbler lampooned by Chevy Chase on NBC's "Saturday Night Live." Chase's impersonation helped make the actor's early career and, many believe, tipped the minds of voters who had seen the president stumble and, in one instance in Salzburg, Austria, fall down the stairs of Air Force One. Ford was an accomplished skier and tennis player as well as an all-star football player at the University of Michigan in the 1930s -- it's just that Ford had spent so much time in the public eye that his every misstep was recorded.

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