Persons for the week: Gerald Ford and James Brown.

Our person(s) for the week are two men who passed away this week but whose lives impacted many. The two men are: President Gerald Ford, whose magnamity (though it is now more probable than not that it was NOT magnamity but friendship that may have influenced Ford) got President Richard Nixon a pardon, sparing the nation the embarrassment of a watergate (criminal) trial and punishment; and, the "Godfather of soul", James Brown, whose influence in music created a new genre and made many millions around the world to "feel good" (and Blacks - and Whites - to sing the refrain: "say it loud, I'm Black and proud.") By the way, did you know that James Brown and Gerald Ford have something else in common, other than death within hours of each other? James Brown was one of a few Blacks to endorse Richard Nixon's (and Gerald Ford's) candidacy!