Ford is underrated as a president and I think we would have been a lot
better off if he beat Carter. If nothing else he drove the stake
through the heart of the Vietnam war. Anybody else might have had us
farting around there until it got going again (like Clinton in Iraq).
I also think he put the Nixon thing to bed with the least amount of
damage possible and allowed Carter to have a clean playing field to
stumble around in.
The WIN thing was pretty dumb tho and he allowed the Nixon drug war to
flourish when it would have been possible to end that too.
It has killed more people than Vietnam.