of Gerald Ford, 337–44
press, 109–10
on Betty’s recovery, 295, 296–97
on breast cancer, 173–76
Ford family and, 70, 109–10, 116, 121–25, 135, 141, 148–49, 153, 156, 158, 161–63, 170–76, 180–81, 184, 189, 192–93, 196, 201–9, 210, 217, 220, 237–39, 241, 260, 270, 272, 287, 291, 293, 295–97
Prohibition, 5
Proverbs, Book of, 141, 146
psychiatry, 95, 97, 163, 204, 268
Pulaski Day Parade, 231
Pursch, Dr. Joseph, xii, xv, xvii, 281–93, 302, 308, 398
Quaker City Rubber Company, 4
Quinn, Sally, 163
racism, 103
Rancho Mirage, Ford home in, xii–xvii, 245–47, 251, 261, 265–67, 274, 278, 281–86, 297, 314, 327, 330, 333, 351
Reader’s Digest, 302
Reagan, Nancy, 228–29
Reagan, Ronald, 108, 338
1976 presidential campaign, 219, 228–29
1980 presidential election, 315–16
Red Cross, 59, 60
religion, 54, 63, 118, 140–41, 164–65, 206, 285
Remember the Titans (movie), 103
Republican National Convention, 97
of 1968, 97
of 1976, 228–30
of 1980, 315–16
Republican Party, 44, 45, 47, 48, 55, 89, 97, 101, 145, 188, 199, 200, 207, 213, 219, 228, 233, 314–16, 332
wives, 69, 123
Republican Women’s Club, 123
Republic Rubber Corporation, 3
Rivers, Joan, 180
Rockefeller, Happy, 341
Rockefeller, Nelson, 108, 199, 341
Rockwell, Norman, 73
Roe v. Wade, 123, 162, 204
Rogers, Ginger, 278
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 189, 333
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 199
Rose Garden, 223
Rumsfeld, Donald, 183, 202, 206, 207, 214
Sacramento, 210–12, 317
Safer, Morley, 202–9
Saigon, fall of, 197
St. Clair, James, 139
St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Palm Desert, California, 338
St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington, D.C., 85
Saipan, 36
Salvation Army, 170
same-sex marriage, 188
San Francisco, 213
Sardo, Ric, 170, 193, 197
Saturday Evening Post, 248
Saudi Arabia, 305
Savalas, Telly, 222
Schlafly, Phyllis, 187
Scouten, Rex, 155, 156, 158
Seattle, 4
Secchia, Joan, 233
Secchia, Peter, 221, 233
Secret Service, xiv, 64, 99, 115, 137, 199, 241, 315, 318, 328
code names for Ford family, 158–59, 251
female agents, 328
Ford family and, 115–17, 119–20, 124–27, 133–34, 138, 142, 143, 154–56, 158–61, 166, 176, 182–86, 190, 194, 198, 210–214, 220, 226, 245–46, 251–56, 275, 280, 286, 288, 304, 327–28, 335, 336, 342, 344
postpresidency, 245–46, 251–56, 275, 280, 286, 288, 327–28, 335, 336, 342, 344
Secret Service (TV show), 328
segregation, 81
Senate, US, 59, 89, 98, 117
Senate Watergate Committee, 107
Sequoia (yacht), 71, 93, 94, 198
Serenity Prayer, 285
sex, 15, 102, 122, 249–50
premarital, 205, 206, 217, 304
Shanghai, 100
Sharbutt, Meri Bell, 300
Shriners, 231
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 231
Sirica, John, 138
60 Minutes interview, 201–9, 214, 215, 304
skiing, 83–84, 98–99, 122, 124–25, 182–86, 333
Smith, Richard Norton, 349
Snapp, Mary, 16, 18
soap operas, 328
Social Security, 189
Sorum, Pete, 214
South Dakota, 231
South High School, 12, 31
Soviet Union, 263–65
Betty in, 263–64, 265, 270–72, 325
Spain, 66, 197
sports, 10, 31, 74
Star Is Born, A (movie), 247
State Department, US, 153
state dinners, 71–72, 153, 157–58
Statue of Liberty, 222
Stevenson, Adlai II, 63, 66
Stiles, Jack, 42, 45, 46–47, 66
Stiles, Phoebe, 42, 66
stock market crash of 1929, 10
Stop ERA, 188
Streisand, Barbra, 247
Studio 54, 313–14, 323
Sun Valley, Idaho, 40, 41
Supreme Court, US, 55, 59, 86, 138, 162, 204
Roe v. Wade, 123, 162, 204
Susan B. Komen Award, 331
Susan B. Komen Cancer Foundation, 174, 331
Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure, 348
swimming, 75, 111, 333
White House pool, 199
Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), 126
Syracuse, New York, 28–29
T. C. Williams High School, 92, 103, 116, 135–36
Taylor, Elizabeth, 313
AIDS cause and, 327
at Betty Ford Center, 322–23
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, The Nutcracker, 263–64, 270–72
Teeter, Bob, 234
Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical Company, 213
television, 79, 83, 121–22, 123, 148–49, 214, 247, 270–71, 325, 328
Betty on Mary Tyler Moore Show, 217–18, 324
Bolshoi Nutcracker special, 263–64, 270–72, 274
on breast cancer, 173
1976 election returns, 233–34
Nixon announces Ford as vice president, 113, 114, 116
Nixon resigns, 142, 14
60 Minutes interview with Betty, 201–9, 214, 215, 304
Temple, Shirley, 15
Texas, 56, 234, 256
Thistlethwaite, Dr. Richard, 173
Thomas, Lynette Williams, 83
Thompson, Ev, 13
Thorne, Harriet, 94
Thorne, Wendell, 94
Thunderbird Country Club, xv, 194, 246, 261, 278
“Tie a Yellow Ribbon ’Round the Ole Oak Tree” (song), 229, 306
Time magazine, 85, 109, 116, 123, 124, 135, 149, 161, 239
Ford covers, 116
Times of My Life, The (Ford), 296, 302
Tippit, J. D., 86
Today show, 123, 270
Tony Awards, 247
tranquilizers, 89, 132–33, 163
Travis, Calla, 7–9, 10, 15, 20, 23
Truman, Bess, 57–58, 163
Truman, Harry S., 49, 55, 57
Truman Balcony, 143, 178, 179, 222
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 351
Turnoff, 276
25th Amendment, 199
United Arab Emirates, 305
University of Michigan, 12, 19–20, 35, 252
football, 12, 31, 40, 47, 48, 342
University of Wisconsin, 9
Utah, 230
Utah State University, 102
Vail, Colorado, 98–99, 124–26, 182–86, 202, 258–59, 260, 273, 300, 334
Ford Condo in, 124–26, 182
Valium, 89, 132–33, 283, 285
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 221
Vance, Chuck, 304, 306, 328
Vandenberg, Arthur H., 47
Venker, Marty, 251
Veterans of Foreign Wars, 158
Vietnam War, 158, 194–97, 222, 230
“babylift” operations, 195–96
fall of Saigon, 197
Virginia Tech, 134
vitamin B shots, 256
Wake Forest University, 101–2, 350
Waldorf Astoria Hotel, 302
Wallace, George, 97
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 258
Walters, Ba
rbara, xi, 123, 222
Warhol, Andy, 313
Warren, Bill, 12, 26–27
divorce from Betty, 30–31, 38, 39, 45, 135
marriage to Betty, 27, 28–31, 36
Warren, Earl, 86
Warren Commission, 86, 100
Warren Report, 86
Washington, 230
Washington, D.C., 47, 49, 51, 53, 55–60, 146, 167, 217, 332
early years of Ford family in, 55–67
Fords leave, 239–41
funeral of Gerald Ford, 337–44
National Day of Mourning, 337, 338, 341
society, 56–58, 59–60, 71–72, 91
state dinners, 71–72, 153, 157–58, 222–24
Washington, George, 68, 71
Washington Monument, 222
Washington National Cathedral, 337, 341
Washington Post, 106, 163, 303
Washington Redskins, 176
Washington Senators, 67
Washington Star, 140
Washington Star-News, 191
Watergate scandal, 100, 106–7, 121, 122, 138–45, 222, 230
Webster, Daniel, 77
Weidenfeld, Sheila, 180, 181, 182, 192, 193, 197, 200, 201, 202, 207, 208, 212, 213, 216, 225–26, 227
Weidman, Charles, 17
Welch, Frankie, 157
West Indies, 181
Westland, Jack, 213
Weyand, Fred, 194
“What I Did for Love” (song), 250, 251, 252
Whitefish Lake, 5–6, 10, 24
White House, 55, 57, 68, 69, 270,
297–98, 332
Advance Office, 245
Blue Room, 177
Cabinet Room, 187, 237, 240
Carter, 240–41
Christmas in, 180–81
Correspondence Office, 180
dancing in, 158, 224, 240
Dining Room, 161
Diplomatic Reception Room, 143, 178
East Room, 85, 113, 114, 143, 145, 158
East Wing, 167, 179, 180, 190
Eisenhower, 70, 71
Ford, 153–238
Fords leave, 239–41
Fords move into, 154–66
Kennedy, 69–72, 85–86
Nixon, 98–101, 106–7, 114, 118, 138–45, 159
North Lobby, 192
North Portico, 241
Oval Office, 138, 147, 161, 172, 235–36
press conferences, 161–63
Press Office, 161, 180, 245
Press Room, 199
Rose Garden, 223
Social Office, 180
South Lawn, 143, 156, 178, 179
South Portico, 190
state dinners, 71–72, 153, 157–58, 222–24
swimming pool, 199
Truman Balcony, 143, 178, 179, 222
West Lobby, 202
West Sitting Hall, 164, 167, 235
West Wing, 163, 225
Yellow Oval Room, 222–23
White House Historical Association, 120–21
White House Swimming Pool Committee, 199
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, 75
Widdicomb Furniture Company, 29
Willard, Greg, 234, 235, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251–52, 253, 254, 337, 344
Williamson, Dr., 266–67
Wilson, Fred, 194
Winchester, Lucy, 155
Wisconsin, 23, 221, 234
women’s equality, 163, 186, 187–90, 197, 204, 215–16, 217, 315–16, 330, 340, 349
Women’s News Service, 123
Women’s Wear Daily, 172
Woodward, Bob, 106
World War II, 26, 36, 154, 339, 347–48
Wyeth, Andrew, 129
Wyeth, Jamie, 129
Wyoming, 230
Yale University, 34, 35
Yamani, Sheikh Zaki, 305
Yeats, William Butler, 74, 75
Yellowstone National Park, 142
“You Are So Beautiful” (song), 303
Young, Julian, 186
Young and the Restless, The (TV show), 328
Yu Chan-ha, 217
YWCA, 29
Zumwalt, Elmo R., 138
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Names: McCubbin, Lisa, author.
Title: Betty Ford : First Lady, Women’s Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer / Lisa McCubbin ; foreword by Susan Ford Bales.
Description: New York : Gallery Books, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018009239 (print) | LCCN 2018025870 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501164743 (eBook) | ISBN 9781501164682 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Ford, Betty, 1918–2011. | Presidents’ spouses—United States—Biography. | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. | HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
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