What's a memory from your dad's presidency that comes back to you often, one that just

for some reason has stuck with you the most?

You know, I have a funny story that the great memory is the first night we had dinner in

the White House.

We have to remember that we didn't get to move into the White House for seven days because

when Nixon left, they were able to pack up all the long and quick enough.

So the daughter and son-of-law, I think, stayed and packed all their clothes.

So we had to go back to our little house in Alexandria, Virginia and for the first seven

days of dad's presidency.

And I remember that first meal after dad became president, after he got swathing that day,

we were sitting around the dinner table and my mother was cooking and my mother looked

over dad from, you know, she looked at the stove and she goes, Jerry, something's wrong

here.

You just became president in the United States and I am still cooking.

And that was the memory that sticks the most of how such a strange time it was that

for seven days we had to live in our little house in suburbia and dad would commute to

the old office.

This is Stephen Ford, the youngest son of president Gerald Ford who took over when Richard

Nixon resigned from office.

I'm Lilian Cunningham with the Washington Post and this is the 37th episode of presidential.

I shall resign the presidency, effective at noon tomorrow.

Gerald Ford's presidency wasn't just rare because he took over for the only president, Nixon,

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