Not quite a eulogy

[Clive]

"The Ford epoch did not banish a nightmare. It ended a dream‚Äîthe ideal of equal justice under the law that would extend to a crooked and venal president. And in Iraq and Indonesia and Indochina, it either protracted existing nightmares or gave birth to new ones." Ignoring the old maxim about not speaking ill of the dead, Christopher Hitchens launches an onslaught against the ex-president’s reputation.