By The Beachwood Dead Presidents Affairs Desk
Bob Woodward has released tapes of a 2004 interview with Gerald Ford in which the former president revealed that the invasion of Iraq was “a big mistake.” Ford gave Woodward the interview on the condition that his comments not become public until after his death. Here are less-publicized excerpts from the Ford interview.
– “I wanted to call it, ‘Beat Inflation into a Whimpering, Bloody Pulp and Roast Its Still-Beating Heart Over a Pile of Burning Horse Dung,’ but the ‘experts’ had a better idea.”
– “Estes Kefauver is a cocksucker, and you can quote me on that once I’m dead.”
– “So we were lounging around the White House pool one afternoon and he [Kennedy] asked us if we’d ever ‘taken a trip.’ I thought he was asking if we wanted to check out the yacht, you know [laughs]. But I’m glad I did it. Acid opened some important doors for me, awakened me to my creative self. [inaudible] Yeah, like the single-bullet thing, very psychedelic. Arlen was the real guru on that, dude walked around for a year with pupils the size of exit wounds.”
Posted on December 29, 2006