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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.
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Playing Poher To Win
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to improve mis mind and lody, to do a job so
that The results are meaningful and so that
when accomplishment. The challenge is over you have a feeling of
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and will pay dwidends.
Playing Poker to Win
To a degree I agree with those who believe winning is everything. That target is the incentive to
improve one's mind and body, to do a job so that the results are meaningful and so that when the
challenge is over you have a feeling of accomplishment.
Playing to win does mean you must organize & train whether it be in an athletic contest or a
political fray. This means you are building not only for the present but for the future. Winning
gives you that extra satisfaction but there is also the reward that in preparing & competing, day
after day, you are building something that in the end will pay dividends.