By Nazario Rodriguez Jr.
Horizon news staff

Members of both houses of Congress adopted a joint resolution expressing condolences and sympathies to the family of the late President Gerald R. Ford and to the people of the United States of America.
The former US President, who was born on July 14, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska, passed away on Dec. 26. He was 93.
Senate Joint Resolution No. 7-62,SD1 traced the track record of Ford from being a star football player from University of Michigan and Law school at Yale.
He became a member of the House of Representatives in the US Congress, where he rose in prominence being appointed to the Appropriations Committee and Defense Subcommittee and became Minority Leader in 1965.
In 1973, then Pres. Richard Nixon nominated Ford to assume the Vice Presidency after Spiro Agnew resigned.
On August 9, 1974, Ford became the 38th US President following the Watergate Scandal that clouded the Nixon administration.
The joint resolution noted that during his term, Ford worked to curb inflation to stimulate the crippling US economy and to help businesses by reducing taxes and granted Nixon a full pardon.
The resolution said that Ford is a loss heavily felt by his family and friends as well as by the American people and around the world.
Ford is survived by wife Elizabeth Bloomer Ford and four children, Michael Gerald Ford, John Gardner Ford, Steven Meigs Ford and Susan Elizabeth Ford.