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The opinions of former President Gerald Ford were freed from embargo by his death. For the second straight day Ford was Story of the Day. This time he made news via Bob Woodward of The Washington Post, who released a 2004 interview in which Ford criticized the Iraq War and repudiated two of its key architects, his own former aides and proteges, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.

ABC's George Stephanopoulos (subscription required) led with the Woodward tapes. "He told Woodward that George Bush fought the wrong war for the wrong reasons," Stephanopoulos summarized, while pointing out that "a year earlier Ford had forcefully defended the decision to go to war," calling it "totally justified." NBC's Andrea Mitchell added that Ford was "not known to have offered Bush advice" on Iraq. Ford despaired of his one-time Chief of Staff. Cheney had "turned pugnacious."

Stephanopoulos promised a follow-up tomorrow: Ford to Woodward on Richard Nixon. Ford and Nixon had "a very intimate relationship--which would be surprising."
Andrew Tyndall 12/29/06 11:19:21 pm

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