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Ford Honored with Service at National Cathedral

By Don Gonyea, Renee Montagne

Published January 2, 2007 at 3:00 AM PST

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

The nation honors President Gerald Ford with a memorial service at the National Cathedral in Washington. The 38th president is being remembered as a man who helped heal the country and restore confidence in the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal. President Bush will deliver a eulogy at the service.

Ford will be buried Wednesday in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.

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