
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)