This week saw the passing of President Gerald Ford.

President Ford, 93, superseded the late, great Ronald Reagan as our oldest living ex-President. I have to find it interesting these two presidential rivals passed to their rewards with the same age. It's as almost as eerie as both Jefferson and Adams dying on the same day.

I'll eulogize Ford with some of the same comments greater men than me have. Ford's legacy will be his decency. Someone will be hard pressed to call Ford a great President. After all, he led us during the final, sad days of our abandonment of Vietnam to the Communists and some of the worst economic crises of the 20th century. Much worse is the appointment of John Paul Stevens, one of the most left-wing Justices on the Supreme Court. Much like other Republicans, like Eisenhower and Earl Warren, and Reagan and Sandra Day O'Connor.

Despite his misgivings, Ford was the right man for the time. He was what the nation needed: a good-hearted, honorable chief executive who held enough authority to keep the lights on. Sure, there was no great foreign or domestic agenda, but after Vietnam, Watergate, and more, the nation didn't need a vigorous agenda, just a chance to breathe again.

The book "Personality Plus" by Florence Littauer, quoted a Wall Street Journal article entitled, "Thanks for Nothing," stating Ford perhaps deserves the grandest memorial of all presidents. Not for what he did, but he didn't do.

Perhaps that's an idea whose time is here.

Good night, President Jerry. Thanks for the nothing.