CBC is on the air saying that “many people” referred to Gerry Ford as “the accidental president”. A play on the supposed clumsiness that Chevy Chase exploited so comically, no doubt. But a phrase I’ve personally never heard associated with Ford. Indeed, of the first 50 hits of the phrase “the accidental president” on Google, none relate to Ford. Lazy writing or poor search tools?
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I think the phrase can be attributed to AP go here.
Yes, and The Nation is running a piece on it too. The obit writers are glomming on to it, though I never heard it used to describe Ford during his lifetime …