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Ford and Conservatism

By The Daily Dish
Sep 18 2007, 12:02 PM ET

"He always understood what he knew and what he didn't know," - Alan Greenspan in describing Gerald Ford as the best president he worked with.

"The defining characteristic of the conservative is that he knows what he doesn't know," - my attempt at a definition of the best kind of conservatism in "The Conservative Soul."



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