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Tom Vance

MA in U.S. History with a concentration in biography, Western Michigan University.
Retired lieutenant colonel, US Army Reserve.
Author of Elliot Richardson: The Virtue of Politics (2000, 2014) and Napoleon in America: Essays in Biography & Popular Culture (2012).

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The Power of Imagination
The Power of Imagination

It would be difficult to find a better personification of political imagination in the second half of the 20th century than President Gerald R. Ford’s ambassador to Great Britain and Secretary of Commerce Elliot Richardson (1920-1999).

Documenting a Ford Administration Legacy
Documenting a Ford Administration Legacy

It has been 25 years since the death of Elliot Richardson (1920-1999), ambassador to Great Britain and Secretary of Commerce under President Gerald R. Ford.