In 1979, Gerald Ford was the first speaker in UMR's Remmers Lecture Series (which has also featured Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger and Lance Armstrong, among others). Ford, who was the first president I really remember, will be remembered by most Americans for pardoning Nixon and being parodied on SNL. He was also quite bald or at least balding. Are there any other American presidents in modern history who had huge foreheads while in office? For some reason, I don't think the American public is willing to elect balding men (or balding women). After all, they never actually elected Ford. Thanks to Spiro Agnew and Tricky Dick, Ford never had to be elected to the vice presidency or the presidency by the American people. And that explains how a very decent man like Gerald Ford could wind up in the oval office.

P.S. I just looked at some presidential portraits. Eisenhower was pretty bald too.