One of the most fascinating "What if?" scenarios in U.S. political history occurred during the 1980 presidential election, when Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford considered a co-presidency.

Unlike the methodical Joe Biden vice presidential selection process, a wild 1980 GOP convention saw Ronald Reagan pursue Gerald Ford to form a “dream ticket,” which collapsed when talk of a ...

Ford’s margin over Reagan was a slim 117 delegates. A shift of only 59 delegates would have given the nomination to Reagan–with its 30 delegates, Mississippi would have provided half of what ...

Forty years ago, Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford came to a final showdown at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Mo. It was the first time since 1948 that no one knew heading into the ...

Perhaps you knew that Ronald Reagan was the longest living U.S. president. Come this Sunday Gerald Ford will beat that record. He'll be 93 years and 121 days old. Passing by one day the age ...

All of this evidence begs the question: Why would any Republican in Michigan who voted for Gerald Ford — or Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush, Sens. John McCain or Mitt Romney ...

President Gerald Ford and first lady Betty Ford celebrate winning the nomination at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, in August 1976. Photo by John T. Bledsoe/Library of ...

In 1980, as Ronald Reagan was preparing for a Republican nomination, his team thought Midwesterner Ford would be appealing to voters who felt distanced by Reagan’s West Coast presence.

He was the longest living president, followed by Ronald Reagan, who also died at 93. Ford had been living at his desert home, about 130 miles east of Los Angeles.