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Image: A0512-17A
Description: Betty Ford
hosts her first press conference as First Lady in the White House State
Dining Room. September 4, 1974.
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Image: A0980-15
Description: First Lady Betty Ford makes
remarks at a Candidate's Luncheon sponsored by Republican Women Power
of Illinois. The theme of the luncheon was “You’ve
Come A Long Way, Baby!” Conrad Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL, September
24, 1974.
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Image: A1170-18A
Description: President Gerald Ford and
First Lady Betty Ford read a petition, signed by all 100 members of the
United States Senate, in the President's Suite at Bethesda Naval Hospital,
Bethesda, MD, following the First Lady's breast cancer surgery. October
2, 1974.
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Image: A1201-21A
Description: President Gerald Ford and
First Lady Betty Ford toss a football, a gift from Washington Redskins
Coach George Allen, in the hallway near the Presidential Suite at the
Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, MD, following the First Lady’s
breast cancer surgery. October 4, 1974.
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Image: A2723-18A
Description: First Lady Betty Ford congratulates
President Gerald Ford upon his signing of an executive order establishing
a National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year. January
9, 1975
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Image: A3455-21A
Description: First Lady Betty Ford sports
a button expressing her support for ratification of the Equal Rights
Amendment while taking some personal time as President Ford plays in
the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic Celebrities Golf Tournament,
Hollywood, Florida. February
26, 1975.
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Image: A4669-13
Description: First Lady Betty Ford greets
newly-arrived Vietnamese children at the Camp Pendleton Refugee Camp
in California. May 21, 1975.
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Image: A5314-22
Description: First Lady Betty Ford works
at her desk in the East Wing, where a “Don’t Tread on Me” Equal
Rights Amendment doormat hangs from the front of her desk. June
30, 1975.
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Image: A5611-34A
Description: First Lady Betty Ford participates
in a CBS “60 Minutes” interview with Morley Safer. July
21, 1975.
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Image: A6531-22
Description: President Ford stands by
as First Lady Betty Ford prepares to cut the birthday cake at the dedication
ceremony for the Oklahoma State Fair Grounds’ Independence Arch
and Constitution Fountain. September
19, 1975.
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Image: A7012-06
Description: First Lady Betty Ford makes
remarks at the Greater Cleveland Congress of International Women’s
Year (IWY). Cleveland Convention Center, Cleveland, Ohio. October
25, 1975.
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Image: A7230-10A
Description: First Lady Betty Ford answers
questions from the press prior to touring the Guttman Institute for Early
Detection of Breast Cancer, New York, New York. November
7, 1975.
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Image: A9339-20A
Description: On a campaign trip in Texas
First Lady Betty Ford, aka “First Momma,” greets the crowd
gathered at San Jacinto Battlefield Park for a Bicentennial celebration.
April 21, 1976.
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Image: B0342-06A
Description:First Lady Betty Ford offers
a prayer for Jewish National Fund president Rabbi Maurice Sage who collapsed
onstage from a heart attack just before presenting her with a Bible at
the Fund’s gala dinner to inaugurate the American Bicentennial
National Park in Israel. June 22, 1976.
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Image: B2843-09A
Description: First Lady Betty Ford dances
on the Cabinet Room table on the day before departing the White House
upon the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter. January
19, 1977.
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