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Ford Library Expects More Visitors

Saturday, December 30, 2006 4:29:17 PM
By JAMES PRICHARD

A flag flies at half staff outside the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library at the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Mich., Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2006. Ford, who declared "Our long national nightmare is over" as he replaced Richard Nixon but may have doomed his own chances of election by pardoning his disgraced predecessor, died at his home Tuesday. He was 93. (AP Photo/John M. Galloway)GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - President Gerald Ford's death is expected to spark renewed interest in his life and draw more visitors to his presidential library and museum in Michigan.

Unlike other presidential centers, Ford's library and museum are divided between sites in Grand Rapids, where he grew up, and Ann Arbor, where he attended the University of Michigan in the 1930s.

A museum holding artifacts from his life sits on a scenic, 20-acre patch of downtown Grand Rapids along the Grand River. Ford will be buried there Wednesday on a hillside near the sleek, triangular building. The university 130 miles away houses an archive of his papers.


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