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Wed 01 Jan 2007Ford remembered as 'rock of stability'President Bush, former presidents and Washington veterans remembered Gerald Ford last night as a "rock of stability" whose pardon of scandal-tarred Richard Nixon helped heal a divided country.Cabinet secretaries, Supreme Court justices and military leaders joined Ford's widow, Betty, 88, inside Washington's cavernous National Cathedral to honor the memory of Ford, the 38th president who died a week ago.