Reply #9: Ford supported the Equal Rights Amendment

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in Proclamation 4383 and even granted some amnesty to draft dodgers who fled to Canada. Yes, a Republican president supporting the ERA despite conservative Republican activist Phyllis Schlafly (a supporter of Barry Goldwater in 1964) opposing ERA.

George H.W. Bush and Dick Cheney both served in Ford's cabinet. However, Ford also nominated Democratic senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan as US Ambassador to the UN.

He also signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 that established special education for US public schools. Contrast that with the attitude of modern Republicans who would rather cut, cut, cut everything that helps the disadvantaged. He also nominated liberal justice John Paul Stevens.

However, as House Minority Leader in the '60s, Ford opposed LBJ's War on Poverty programs.