What Exactly Did Gerald Ford Heal?

"'The long national nightmare is over,? Ford said. But it wasn't a nightmare for the American people. It was a nightmare for the power elite. Their very legitimacy was in peril. The debt to Ford for restoring their legitimacy is owed by those who hold and aspire to power, not by those who suffer under it." Way past time to quit fawning over dead politicians (or live ones, for that matter).