Gerald Ford on Meeting His Real Father | The Dick Cavett Show

Vice President Gerald Ford tells the story of when he first met his father whilst working at a diner.
Date aired - January 10th 1974 - Gerald Ford
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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[@bryannewman5194]

Putting all politics aside, President Ford was a decent, highly intelligent, principled man, who served as President during a very difficult period, and had to make difficult choices but always put right before politics in the best interest of the nation he served.

[@chadbuarsons8551]

Indeed. A good man. A good public servant.

[@NoOne-kr4jc]

What about the JFK assassination?

[@jeffearle8172]

@@NoOne-kr4jc He served on the Warren Commission. What about it?

[@MrZombiekiller23]

@@jeffearle8172 SO he helped cover up the assassination' of the PRESIDENT?!! Why are Americans so goddamn brainwashed lmfao

[@themaestro3034]

Well said

[@Youtubeisntlettingmeuseczech]

Ford just has this aura of wholesomness around him that makes me happy

[@danielyruby8696]

Haven't heard that old Michigan accent since the days of my grandparents...

[@Rockroi75]

What's incredible is that you can see that the President doesn't like calling his "biological" father his "real" father. You can see that, to him, his "real" father was that guy in Michigan who actually raised him. But the vernacular at the time was so limiting that he's stuck saying these things. But to him, the guy who appeared at his restaurant that day was what the President said at that first moment- "he was a stranger."

[@LucyQ-ew6zp]

Yes, that's obvious. He was the son of Gerald Ford Sr, just not by blood.

[@nickv2601]

Ford is just great.

[@roccoz2231]

Ford's bio father (Leslie King Sr.) has a Wiki page with a photo, and the resemblance is absolutely startling. Ford probably thought he was looking into a mirror when King Sr. walked into the "hamburg joint" that day.

[@pattyajones]

And???????????????????

[@brettweaver9608]

I had no idea about this history with former President Ford. Thanks for sharing. One observation I might make is that we seem to appreciate our Presidents more ... once they leave office. I'm not sure why. I appreciate their service, regardless of party.

[@jamesagwe2981]

Mr ford reminds me of my father

[@bretmoleta1860]

Your father must have been a nice guy

[@chrismanteris9093]

Fords voice is very soothing

[@healmyroots]

Make hamburgs 😁 1:23

[@johnhaug9612]

Presidents and name changes...Eisenhower was born David Dwight. Clinton was born William Blythe. Jerry was a good guy.

[@Magdalenkaization]

And Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant.

[@rawbacon]

A Hamburg sounds good right about now.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

I didn’t know any of this regarding his background. Very interesting.

[@morticindavis9410]

My father was a big man 6’4” I used to ask him why none of us were over 6ft. Of course I'm 5’11” my mother was a tall polish lady 5’9” I have a brother 6’0 even. But I have a son who is 6’4” so he took after my dad and my sisters are both over 5’7”. My dad was also polish. But I don't know why sometimes I thought I was adopted. Because the older I get I look much like him. Ford was a good man should have beaten Carter absence the Nixon Pardon I think he may have beaten Carter. It was a very close election.

[@paleo704]

Ironic Ford won New York and California Lost Texas and Alabama. Strange

[@CentralKentuckyElevators]

@@paleo704Ford didn’t win New York.

[@Gannooch]

have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? Please.

[@thomasgarman4295]

Uh,I didn't know that his name was Leslie king Jr.

[@steveryan7786]

A thoroughly decent man who was put in a bad position ,and just once went against his principles and paid for it.

[@noam65]

Better- genetic father.

[@recratdemopublican2024]

Built Ford Tough

[@Gannooch]

have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney?

[@Gannooch]

How about any of the Honeymooners actors that were a part of the main cast?

[@LegoPostPresidency]

7 Months Later...

[@packersprik]

Little child, you can always scrub ahead if you don’t like to watch something.

[@LegoPostPresidency]

@@packersprik no, I meant that seven months after this, Nixon resigned and he became president

[@therealcoleshow]

He's not from Michigan but I am

[@maureenobrien4807]

Leslie King JR.

[@docadams7099]

middle name of Lynch. Leslie Lynch King, Jr.

[@carter7937]

The term "real" instead of "biological" parent is very offensive to people who were raised by adoptive parent(s).

[@thomaskrupa2004]

This is back in the mid 70s, before the term biological parent really became main stream, meaning that at the time, the common term would’ve been real parents

[@118Columbus]

Just get to the fucking point, Gerry! This is the most long-winded story!

[@pattyajones]

Seriously, you are SO RIGHT. And?????

[@edwardcloud8537]

I could see Nixon saying that.

[@NoOne-kr4jc]

When I think of long-winded, I think of politicians speaking like politicians. I see Ford acting like a regular man on here.

[@nationalallianceforprogres3136]

Long live democratic socialism and freedom

[@CentralKentuckyElevators]

Pick ONE!

[@packersprik]

What a great man AND great president.