Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford may have started as political rivals, but they formed a tight bond behind the scenes, a former White House staffer tells PEOPLE. Their connection would span dec ...

Steve Ford By fate of a brief season, Jimmy Carter and I were rivals. But for the many wonderful years that followed, friendship bonded us as no two presidents since John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

And that includes the late President Gerald Ford, who had made an agreement with President Carter during their ... over the Atlantic that Jimmy and I forged a friendship that transcends politics.

"First of all, it was a most improbable friendship," Ford biographer ... the plane to go over to carry Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter - three former presidents, all of whom had ...

Steve Ford, Gerald Ford's son, read his late father's eulogy for Jimmy Carter at the former president's funeral. The tribute explained how the two former rivals became friends after their ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The second person to eulogize former President Jimmy Carter was Steve Ford, the son of late President Gerald Ford. Gerald Ford was president before Carter, having taken ...

But for the many wonderful years that followed, friendship bonded us as no ... feathers in the Washington establishment. Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford on Air Force One in 1981.