Happy Birthday July 14

Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States, was born on July 14, 1913, at 3202 Woolworth Avenue in Omaha, Nebraska. Ford was involved in The Boy Scouts of America, and earned that program's highest rank, Eagle Scout. He was the only American president who was an Eagle Scout. A male model during his time between leaving for World War II and graduating from Yale Law, Ford was in Look magazine and on the cover of a 1942 issue of Cosmopolitan.

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