Presidential Odd Couple: After a Tough Race, Carter and Ford Became Friends

Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford faced off in 1976 in a bitter campaign but later bonded as few presidents have — and made a pact to speak at each other’s funerals.

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J. Stanley Pottinger, 84, Dies; Official Figured Out Identity of ‘Deep Throat’

A former Nixon official (and later a novelist), he led an investigation in which a shadowy Watergate figure squirmed when asked if he had been an anonymous whistle blower.

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