Gerald Ford was president from the time I was 9 until 14. Clearly, I wasn't interested in politics or world affairs at the time. The only thing I remember specifically about Gerald Ford was hearing people grumble about him while we were in line at gas stations.  Can you imagine sitting with your family seven cars back waiting for a gas pump?!? That was the situation during the oil / gas crisis in the 70s.  And of course I knew that he was the president that pardoned Nixon, but I really didn't know anything about Watergate or what it really meant. TBH - I still don't.  Unless it's by Hunter S. Thompson, that type of reading would be too dry for me. 

While we're on the subject of dry, the only thing that we all knew Betty Ford for was a punchline.  She started the clinic when I was 17, so even in my late teens and early twenties if me and my friends saw somebody who was a drunken mess we would joke about the "fast track to Betty Ford". Again, no real cognizance of her presence in the White House as first lady. That's what happens when you don't read the newspapers in the'70s because you're a kid. 

As for their son, Steven Ford, I didn't even realize I had him in my collection until I was in the Ford binder. I definitely did not watch him when he was on "The Young and Restless" and I just learned from Wikipedia that he was originally cast as Chisum in "Grease" before Lorenzo Lamas got the role. Interesting. More on Lorenzo, and my meeting with him (interrupted by Ron Jeremy), separately. 

P.S. My friend Tony V. just texted me "What are you doing" and I said, "I'm writing about the Ford family. Got anything for me to say, because I don't remember much about that time". 

Tony simply replied: "Snored during Ford".

Now we have everything neatly summed up.