The Chairman's old friend Gerald Ford (seen above falling down the stairs of Airforce 1) has died today at the age of 93. Ford was the 38th President of the US and took over from Nixon after he was forced to resign following the Watergate scandal in 1974.
For many he will be forever associated with Lyndon Johnson's quote that he 'couldn't chew gum and walk at the same time' and his wife's alcohol and drug depedancy clinic.
Ford visited the Chairman in 1975 and far from the golf playing fool - who pardoned Nixon of all crimes after only a month in office - the Chairman found a wily old fox who was prepared to sanction the death of millions for short term political gain.
During the same tour of South East Asia Ford and Kissinger visited Indonesia's brutal dictator, Mohamed Suharto to give the green light for his plans to use US manufactured weapons to commit genocide in East Timor, causing at best 250,000 deaths.
His Chief Staff was a guy called Dick Cheney and his Defence Secretary was called Donald Rumsfield.
So bare in mind during the coming obituaries - he was a man of vision.
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