Gerald Ford Tells Jimmy Carter "Welcome Home Old Friend" in Gut-Wrenching Eulogy. The late President Gerald Ford wrote a eulogy for his good friend President Jimmy Carter, which his youngest son ...

The son of the late President Gerald Ford delivered a posthumous eulogy that his father wrote to deliver at the memorial service for former President Jimmy Carter. Ford died in 2006.

Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford may have started as political rivals, but they formed a tight bond behind the scenes, a former White House staffer tells PEOPLE. Their connection would span ...

Gerald Ford’s eulogy for Jimmy Carter. Steven Ford spoke at Carter’s funeral on Thursday, first talking about how much the Ford family appreciated the Carter family’s friendship when Ford ...

Steve Ford gave his father’s posthumous elegy for Jimmy Carter at Washington National Cathedral. “I’m looking forward to our reunion,” the 38th president wrote. “We have much to catch up ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — President Jimmy Carter was from the South but did have ties to West Michigan. That strong bond to our state came through his friendship with President Gerald R. Ford.

President Ford wrote: “By fate of a brief season, Jimmy Carter and I were rivals. But for the many wonderful years that followed, friendship bonded us…like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford on Air Force One in 1981. Dirck Halstead / Getty Images. Now, honesty and truth-telling were synonymous with the name Jimmy Carter.