Gerald R. Ford: Seventies President?

Jerry Ford was the most "Seventies" of the three chief executives who served during that decade. Here are a few ideas:

1. He was the first to be satirized on Saturday Night Live.
2. He did not pander to the religious right, or wear his religion on his sleeve.
3. Ford stumbled and fell (sometimes in the physical sense). That was what we were all doing during the Seventies. Things were not going well, and people were upset. Lucky for Ford he got up and dusted himself off. Ford saw that the myth of America's perpetual progress was just that - a myth.
4. He just found himself in the White House. Nobody elected Ford; indeed few heard of him before he was picked to replace the disgraced Spiro T. Agnew. During the Seventies we learned that much of Life is beyond our control, and to a considerable extent we're just carried along by it. Remember the Talking Heads? "You may find yourself...."