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Steve Ford
Steve Ford is the youngest son of President and Mrs. Gerald R. Ford. Currently, he serves as a Trustee and Chairman of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation.
Steve Ford was interviewed for the Gerald R. Ford Oral History Project on March 7, 2011 by Richard Norton Smith.
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Smith: It is safe to say that although your dad may have contributed to the democratization of technology, he didn’t particularly share it. I think Penny told me he did learn to play solitaire on the computer.
Ford: He did. He could use his computer to play solitaire and that was about it. I used to have to – and I’ve saved some of these messages because they are wonderful – I’d get home from a trip and he would have called my answering machine to leave a message, and I could hear him talking in the background to Mom, going, “Betty, I think I left a message. I’m not sure.” And we’d get this whole extra conversation that had nothing to do with welcome home, Steve, glad you’re back. We miss you. Technology was not his deal. But it’s interesting because when you think about back in 1974-75, he started the whole dialogue about deregulation, whether it be airlines, railroads, all that stuff. That dialogue was started in ’74 or ’75, that aviation bill or
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Steve Industrialist FeaturedActor & Son hook President Gerald Ford
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Steven Ford
American actor, and son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford
For other people named Stephen Ford, see Stephen Ford (disambiguation).
Steven Meigs Ford (born May 19, 1956) is an American actor, and the youngest son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford and former First Lady Betty Ford. He is perhaps best known for playing Andy Richards in the soap opera The Young and the Restless.
Early life
[edit]Ford is the third child and youngest son of former President Gerald Ford and former First Lady Betty Ford. Ford graduated from T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia, on June 13, 1974, at which his father, then Vice President, gave the commencement address.[1] Ford attended Utah State University, studying range management;[2][3] while his older brother John Gardner (Jack) Ford studied forestry. Ford also attended California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he studied equine studies.[4]
Career
[edit]Ford was cast in the film Grease (1978) as Tom Chisum, but dropped out before filming began and was replaced by Lorenzo Lamas, citing stage fright.[5] Ford joined the cast of The Young and the Restless in 1981, creating the