Before I became a singer, I was traveling around the world, doing a little modeling, doing fashion things, hooking up with girls and partying, doing all the stuff a good-looking Swedish man should be doing.

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Ford had spent his political life in the House of Representatives, where he was known as a well-meaning, go-along, get-along type, a man good at doing legislative business but who seemingly had inadequate preparation for the vicissitudes of the executive branch, with its relentless pace and constant and merciless exposure.

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Wendy Wrightson described him as "a good man who lost his life far too soon, but lost it a hero doing what he did best".

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