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Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving between 1974 and 1977. He was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr. in 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents separated 16 days after his birth. His name changed two years later after his mother married Gerald Rudolff Ford. He was successful inmany sports at college and graduated from Yale Law School in 1941.
杰拉爾德·魯道夫·福特是美國第38任總統，任期為1974年-1977年。1913年，福特出生于內布拉斯加州奧馬哈，他的原名為萊斯勒·里奇·金。他出生后的第16天，父母離異。兩年之后，由于他的母親改嫁杰拉爾德·魯道夫·福特，所以福特該名。在大學期間，福特擅長多項體育運動，1941年他畢業于耶魯大學法學院。
Ford interrupted his legal career in 1942 when he joined the Navy after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. He served with distinction in the Pacific and was awarded the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with nine stars. After the war, he entered local Republican politics in Grand Rapids, which he served in the House of Representatives for 25 years. He became known in the House as a "Congressman's Congressman".
1942年，福特放棄了他的律師行業，日本偷襲珍珠港后，福特在海軍服役。他在太平洋戰場上的表現優異，并授予了福特亞洲及太平洋作戰九星獎章。戰爭之后，他進入了美國大溪地共和黨，并在眾議院任期25年。人們在眾議院都稱他是“議員中的議員”。
The Republicans elected Ford as the new House Minority Leader in 1964. He held the position for eight years before being elevated to Vice President in 1973, following the resignation of incumbent Agnes Spiro. A year later he became the first President to take the office under the Twenty-fifth Amendment. In the aftermath of Nixon and the Watergate scandal, he succeeded the first President ever to resign.
1964年，共和黨選福特為少數黨領袖。他在任8年，之后于1973年升級成為美國副總統，在這之前，艾格尼絲·斯皮羅辭職。一年之后，他成為了第一位在第25條憲法修正案實施后就職的總統。在尼克松和水門事件的余波之下，他接替了尼克松的工作，尼克松是史上第一位辭職的總統。
As President, Ford calmed the controversies surrounding former President Nixon by granting him a full pardon. He viewed himself as "a moderate in domestic affairs, a conservative in fiscal affairs, and a dyed-in-the-wool internationalist in foreign affairs." He lost the 1976 election to Jimmy Carter. He died thirty years later in 2006, at the age of 93. He was the longest-lived U.S. President in American history.
作為總統，福特平息了圍繞尼克松總統的所有議論，他赦免了尼克松。他認為他施行的是“適度的國內政策，以及保守的財政政策，在國外政策上，他是一名徹徹底底的國際主義者”。在1976年的選舉中，他輸給了吉米·卡特。30年后去世，享年93歲。他是美國歷史上最長壽的總統。
譯文屬可可英語原創，未經允許，不得轉載。
