| Author | Message | ||
     Doug Stephens Member Username: Lilfatguy57 Post Number: 22 Registered: 11-2005 |
While watching the ceremonies marking the passing of President Ford I was looking at different photos in his library website. I noticed that he smoked a pipe in several photos and had a small pipe rack in the oval Office. does anyone know what brand of tobacco he enjoyed? | ||
| Clarence Wade Member Username: Docsavage Post Number: 20 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hacker said he favored Middleton's Walnut..and something else.. I'll have to go look.. CW | ||
| George Simpson Member Username: Simp Post Number: 123 Registered: 11-2005 |
I read in Richard Carleton Hacker's "The Ultimate Pipe Book" that he smoked blends called Field and Stream and Walnut. | ||
| Ryan Marshall Member Username: Kppeterson Post Number: 17 Registered: 04-2006 |
I have heard that it was House of Windsor's Field and Stream. | ||
| Howard S. Lowry Member Username: Mindwalker Post Number: 23 Registered: 03-2005 |
Field & Stream- in a fairly small straight pipe | ||
| Peter Doyle Member Username: Darkgael Post Number: 89 Registered: 03-2006 |
Walnut. | ||
| Richard A. Blake Member Username: Dick_blake Post Number: 18 Registered: 09-2005 |
I read an article on this a number of years ago, but I believe he smoked Field and Stream as well as other "drugstore" blends. | ||
| Warwick Member Username: Warwick Post Number: 92 Registered: 11-2004 |
According the this thread on another forum: http://www.clubstogie.com/vb/showthread.php?t=54149 ...which points to this store: http://www.shdow.com/store/memorabilia.htm ...mentioning memorabilia about Ford and RJR Apple Pipe Tobacco: "The Apple Pipe Tobacco has the original sticker from Airforce II during President Gerald Ford's reign. The tobacco was manufactured by R.J. Reynolds. The matches are presidential blue with the seal and embossed stamped gold signature on the front." On the other hand, there is also multiple mention on tobaccoreviews that Field & Stream was his favorite. Field & Stream is also mentioned in connection with President Ford in previous posts on pipes.org. And if MSNBC can be trusted to have fact-checked, rather than just Google-search like I am doing, then Field & Stream was his fav: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16381577/site/newsweek/page/3/ | ||
| Warwick Member Username: Warwick Post Number: 93 Registered: 11-2004 |
Also, this Time article from 1975 mentions Ford as smoking Field & Stream: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,947550-2,00.html "So at week's end Ford stuffed his pipes and pipe cleaners, his Field & Stream tobacco and his important documents into his worn old brown briefcase with the red tag that says THE PRESIDENT. He finally shut off the endless flow of presidential paper, patted the family dog, and headed toward the Middle Kingdom, which according to legend lies somewhere between earth and heaven." | ||
| Tyler A. Blythe Member Username: Tablythe Post Number: 88 Registered: 07-2005 |
This mentions Half-and-Half http://www.sptimes.com/2006/12/31/News/That_pipe_smoker_in_c.shtml | ||
| Bryan Nolte Member Username: Revelation4me Post Number: 151 Registered: 01-2006 |
I had heard that he smoked Sir Walter Raleigh...but who knows? Maybe he had several tobacco's ( as mentioned above and in above stated articles ) that he smoked, much like myself and many pipe smokers I know in this fine forum...Happy Puffing!!...Bryan | ||
| Timothy Nelson Member Username: Timnelson Post Number: 4 Registered: 01-2007 |
I understand that President Ford smoked a tobacco called "homestead" from a small tobacco shop located in Chinchilla Pa for about ten years. The shops name in Connolleys Smoke Shop. I am not so sure if it is a true story but none the less I do know that it is a great tobacco and a good story from the man who owns the shop. |