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 NEW YORK (AP) - Over the last decade of his life, Gerald Ford enjoyed a steady rise in reputation. His pardon of Richard Nixon was increasingly praised as an act of political courage and his moderation was seen as refreshing during a time of red state-blue state division.
But some historians now question whether Ford, so often labeled as an underrated president, has become overrated.
"Ford will probably be remembered — too generously, I think — as the man who settled the country down after the `long national nightmare' of Watergate," said Princeton University scholar Sean Wilentz.
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