While poring through my reference books for yesterday's fiction about the Battle of Midway, I came across this remarkable photograph.
Why is it so remarkable? Because the fair-haired guy in the center is someone I've written about in the last few weeks. He was a veteran and a gifted athlete (obviously), but he also had a remarkable political career.
Can anyone name this guy, and tell us where and when (roughly) this photo was taken?
(There. I think I finally found a trivia question that might last longer than an hour!!!!!)
(And to any readers who appreciate the "beefcake" element, I'd like to apologize in advance for any reactions you may have when his identity is revealed.)
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Gerry Ford... (Below threshold)1. Posted by ironman | June 25, 2006 11:09 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Gerry Ford
1. Posted by ironman | June 25, 2006 11:09 AM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 11:09
2. Posted by _Jon | June 25, 2006 11:21 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
What was that, less than 10 minutes?
heh
2. Posted by _Jon | June 25, 2006 11:21 AM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 11:21
3. Posted by Jay Tea | June 25, 2006 11:36 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
ironman, I loathe you.
J.
3. Posted by Jay Tea | June 25, 2006 11:36 AM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 11:36
4. Posted by Ironman | June 25, 2006 11:39 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
sorry. Feeling not mutual.
Ford almost was swept off the deck of an aircraft carrier in WWII. BTW, he lived in my town while attending law school
4. Posted by Ironman | June 25, 2006 11:39 AM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 11:39
5. Posted by serfer62 | June 25, 2006 11:46 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Another refugee from polipundit did it again...
5. Posted by serfer62 | June 25, 2006 11:46 AM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 11:46
6. Posted by Luke | June 25, 2006 11:48 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Wait, wait, hold on just a dadburn second. If that was Ford would he not be banging his head on the rim?
6. Posted by Luke | June 25, 2006 11:48 AM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 11:48
7. Posted by 914 | June 25, 2006 11:53 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
He probably twisted His ankle on the way down.
7. Posted by 914 | June 25, 2006 11:53 AM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 11:53
8. Posted by corwin | June 25, 2006 1:06 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It's interesting,Ford was a U-Michigan undergrad,Yale Law grad,All American footbaall player,yet the perception of him is dull and clumsy.By contrast Bill Bradley,Prirnceton grad and Rhodes' scholar,with SAT's in the lower half of the country is considered an intellectual.(Bradley and the late Sen Wellstone were the two senators known to have low SAT's.Yet I don't recall them being ridiculed as dimwits)
8. Posted by corwin | June 25, 2006 1:06 PM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 13:06
9. Posted by corwin | June 25, 2006 1:08 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It's interesting,Ford was a U-Michigan undergrad,Yale Law grad,All American footbaall player,yet the perception of him is dull and clumsy.By contrast Bill Bradley,Prirnceton grad and Rhodes' scholar,with SAT's in the lower half of the country is considered an intellectual.(Bradley and the late Sen Wellstone were the two senators known to have low SAT's.Yet I don't recall them being ridiculed as dimwits)
9. Posted by corwin | June 25, 2006 1:08 PM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 13:08
10. Posted by Luke | June 25, 2006 1:33 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Easy answer to this I think Corwin.
MSM does most of the print reporting and they seldom print anything that just might make a Democrat look not-so-bright.
10. Posted by Luke | June 25, 2006 1:33 PM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 13:33
11. Posted by 914 | June 25, 2006 1:42 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Yes, but Wellstone was a wrestler! Breakfast club flashback again. In Wellstones case, He overcame obvious shortcomings (pun intended)to rise to the lofty lefty MN senator seat. must take some intelligence?
Bradleys just a lib. cut Him some slack.
11. Posted by 914 | June 25, 2006 1:42 PM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 13:42
12. Posted by George | June 25, 2006 2:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Shaggy and Scooby!
Oh, wait a second.
I thought you said "Mystery Van."
12. Posted by George | June 25, 2006 2:23 PM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 14:23
13. Posted by 914 | June 25, 2006 2:36 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Want another scooby snack shaggy? ha ha
13. Posted by 914 | June 25, 2006 2:36 PM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 14:36
14. Posted by hiker | June 25, 2006 3:19 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
He looks a little like Murtha, actually...minus the jowls.
14. Posted by hiker | June 25, 2006 3:19 PM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 15:19
15. Posted by 914 | June 25, 2006 3:39 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Dolf Lundgren
15. Posted by 914 | June 25, 2006 3:39 PM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 15:39
16. Posted by smitty | June 25, 2006 3:52 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Gerald Ford served on the U.S.S. Monterey (CVL-26)
See below, second photo:
http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/26.htm
16. Posted by smitty | June 25, 2006 3:52 PM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 15:52
17. Posted by kemperman | June 25, 2006 4:57 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
WWII story is even better. 10,000 lost in just six months. Time to set a time table to get the hell out. Of course, we HAD broken the codes before Midway and were waiting in ambush for the Japs. Think you could get this dis-information printed in the NY Times now? And there would be hell to pay, when they found out they've been had. Oh, I guess then they wanted us to win, I forgot we had a Democrat president. To bad for the Japs. Kemp
17. Posted by kemperman | June 25, 2006 4:57 PM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 16:57
18. Posted by harkin | June 25, 2006 5:58 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I think Murtha too.
18. Posted by harkin | June 25, 2006 5:58 PM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 17:58
19. Posted by Captain Ned | June 25, 2006 9:55 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
As for the where, it's in the elevator well on his carrier. The railing around the top is a dead giveaway; it popped up out of the deck as soon as the elevator started its trip down.
19. Posted by Captain Ned | June 25, 2006 9:55 PM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 21:55
20. Posted by Synova | June 25, 2006 11:29 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Aparently it *was* Ford. I was going to guess Murtha as well. (But I NEVER get stuff like this right, so...)
20. Posted by Synova | June 25, 2006 11:29 PM |
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Posted on June 25, 2006 23:29