Betty Ford (born 1918) was thrust into the public eye when her husband succeeded Richard Nixon as the 38th president of the United States. After leaving the White House in 1977, Ford battled alcoholis...
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President Bush on Tuesday night called the late President Ford a "great American" who helped heal the nation after Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace over the Watergate scandal."The American people...
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Where was Betty Ford when her namesake clinic for substance abusers opened in 1982? Dashing off to Kmart with her husband to buy soap dishes for patients' rooms.The former first couple were not the...
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Betty Ford and her family stopped at former President Gerald R. Ford's grave site on the Grand River for a few moments in private Thursday, a day after a stirring funeral and burial service.Each fa...
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The public was allowed closer to former President Gerald R. Ford's grave site on the Grand River Thursday after his wife and her family stopped by for a few private moments a day after a hometown f...
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Greenspan, Kissinger, Scowcroft, Dole. Average age: 82.Awaiting President Ford's casket in the Capitol Rotunda Saturday was a tableau of elder statesmen from a political era past, some forced to st...
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Staff at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church paused Wednesday to remember its most famous parishioner, former President Gerald R. Ford, as they prepared for a private family prayer service and public v...
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With their father's health failing, all four of Gerald and Betty Ford's children made a pilgrimage to their parents' home in the California desert to say goodbye, Ford's pastor said.While the famil...
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First lady Laura Bush and her predecessor Nancy Reagan toured on Wednesday an exhibit of red dresses worn by America's seven living first ladies, part of an even meant to promote heart health for w...
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Billy Ray Cyrus, who said appearing on "Dancing With the Stars" was "the scariest thing I could possibly think of to do," has bid farewell to the ballroom. The 45-year-old singer and actor was elim...
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Country music singer and recovering alcoholic Keith Urban knew he was back in Australia when a Qantas flight attendant welcomed him with a bottle of wine.The Grammy winner and country music chart t...
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Betty Ford
Bush calls Gerald Ford 'great American'
