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Making and Keeping Friends
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Gerald R. Ford's Material from the Writing of "A Time to Heal"
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President Gerald R. Ford's handwritten reflections, 1977 or 1978
Scanned from the collection Gerald R. Ford: Materials from the writing of A Time
To Heal at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
While writing his autobiography, A Time to Heal (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), President
Gerald R. Ford composed a series of personal reflections on twenty-seven topics. What makes
these documents so unusual is not only their introspection but also their form. President Ford
recorded these observations by hand, writing in blue ball point on his favored yellow writing
tablets. He did not expend time and energy to polish and edit his writing, apparently planning to
do so when incorporating them into the book. Therefore occasional spelling or grammatical
errors or incomplete thoughts appear.
For each reflection the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library has scanned President Ford's
handwritten document and added a Library-produced transcription below to aid in reading the
reflection.
Copyright Notice
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photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Gerald R. Ford donated to the United
States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.
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domain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to
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Making & Keeping Friends
If you assume, as I do, that in every individual I have met there is far more good than bad, you
then have the foundation for making & keeping friends. From that premise you meet a person
with the expectation that there is some area where you can have a [unrecognized word] and from
that relationship, which is oftentimes thin, a broader & deeper friendship can develop.
Keeping friends is easy, even though personal contact is infrequent. It depends on giving more
than you receive, not in a material sense, but in a warmer greeting, a note of condolence or
congratulation, an extra few minutes in a personal discussion, a lift when the skies are dark or a
partnership on a worthy project.