President Ford

While he'll never be seen as a great president, Gerald Ford did a decent job as president for the two and one half years that he served. He inherited gasoline shortages, a bad economy, the end of the Vietnam War, and the fallout from Nixon's resignation. The fact that he was unelected to the office didn't help. Ford, however, served admirably, and time has shown that his most controversial decision, to pardon Nixon, was really the right decision, as it put the Nixon legal situation to rest after a short time. The country faced so many other problems, it didn't need Nixon on the front pages every day.