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.

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.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jimmy Carter and the man he beat for president, Gerald Ford, got so tight after office that their friendship became a kind of buddy movie, complete with road trips that were ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Gerald Ford’s son Steve Ford read his father's eulogy for Jimmy Carter at Thursday's funeral service, drawing a few smiles, laughs, and tears.

Jimmy Carter and the man he beat for president, Gerald Ford, got so tight after office that their friendship became a kind of buddy movie, complete with road trips that were never long enough because ...