UPDATED: 5:19 a.m. EST, December 27, 2006

Former President Gerald Ford dies at 93

Gerald R. Ford, who assumed the presidency from Richard Nixon in 1974 and announced to a weary nation that “our long national nightmare is over,” died Tuesday at age 93. Former first lady Betty Ford, who made the announcement, did not give a cause of death.

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