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Mr. and Mrs.President

See How They Ran

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207 analysis of presidential...: Stephen Skowronek, The Politics Presidents Make (Cambridge, MA, 1993), p. 411.

208 peppy classics...: "Inquiries (1)" Box 4, Elizabeth O'Neill MSS, GRF Lib.

208 "A successful": GRF, "Material from the writing of A Time to Heal," GRF Lib.

208 "We run...": Eric Rosenberger, 27-29 June 1975, Eric Rosenberger and Douglas Blaser MSS, GRF Lib.

208 "our job...": Eric Rosenberger to Larry Speakes and Ray Zook, 23 Feb. 1976, p. 3, Rosenberger/Blaser MSS.

208 "Some women...": SLGD, 20 Sept. 1974, A13.

208 beyond her...": Nancy M. Howe to Sue Errington, 20 Sept. 1974, Box 2, O'Neill MSS.

208 "the President...": NYT, 13 Aug. 1974, p. 20.

208 "transcended the..": Time, 5 Jan. 1976, p. 6.

209 "drilling in...": clipping [UPI], 23 June 1975, Box 21, Patricia Lindh and Jeanne Holm MSS, GRF Lib.

209 "Go ahead...": GRF, "The Ford Presidency," in Bernard J. Finestone and Alexej Ugrinsky, Gerald R. Ford and the Politics of Post-Watergate America, 2 vols. (Westport, CT, 1993), 2:670; Robert T. Hartmann, Palace Politics (New York, 1980), pp. 294-295.

209 "I had never...": SRW, First Lady's Lady, (New York, 1979), p. 146.

209 "an ideal..": BF with Chris Chase, The Times of My Life, (New York, 1978), p. 189.

209 "reminded me...": WasS, 2 Oct. 1974, A13.

209 a growing sophistication...: James T. Patterson, The Dread Disease (Cambridge, MA, 1987), p. 258.

209 "It's a ..": NYT, 4 Oct. 1974, p. 16.

210 "saved many...": Edna Kauhold to BF, 18 Nov. 1974, Box 21, GRF WHSoc-Subject.

210 "remarkable...": Mrs. Harvey L. Lowenthal to BF, 1 Oct. 1974, Box 13, GRF WHSoc-Subject.

210 "Lying in...": BF, Times, p. 194.

210 "reborn": McCall's, Feb. 1975, p. 99.

210 "This is...": Ibid., pp. 142-143.

210 "policy and...": Nancy M. Howe to Hallie Mitchell, 30 Sept. 1974, Box 2, O'Neill MSS.

210 "A liberated...": NYT, 8 Nov. 1975, p. 32.

210 "defin[e] Mrs. Ford's...": SRW, Lady, p. 69.

210 "Your stressing...": SRW to BF, n.d. Box 47, SRW MSS.

211 "Oh, I'm...": SRW, Lady, pp. 86-87.

211 "I must..": Sen. William Harris (R-IL) in LAT, 18 Feb. 1975, 4:6.

211 "dangerous, anti-family..": Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Lee to Congressman Herbert Harris, 15 Feb. 1975, Box 5, PP5/1 GRF Lib.

211 "using taxpayers'...": LAT, 18 Feb. 1975, 4:1.

211 "BETTY FORD GET...": Bruce Cassiday, Betty Ford (New York, 1978), p. 123.

211 "BETTY FORD FAILS...": clipping in "International Women's Year" file, 1974-77, Box 4, O'Neill MSS.

211 "Betty is...": Jean Rogers to First Lady's Office, 15 May 1975, Box 37, Robert Hartmann MSS, GRF Lib.

211 "right...": LAT, 18 Feb. 1975, 4:1.

211 "Why not...": Women's Work, Jan./Feb. 1976, p. 20.

211 "to stick..": LAT, 18 Feb. 1975, 4:1.

211 "Speech Freedom...": DetFP, 24 Feb. 1975, p. L1, clipping, Box 47, SRW MSS.

211 "self-expression gives...": Providence Bulletin, 26 Feb. 1975, p. L1, clipping, Box 47, SRW MSS.

211 "To deny...": LAT, 27 Feb. 1975, 2:6.

211 "play wife...": "BF Speaks Out," Ann Arbor, Mi, 24 Feb. 1975, clipping, Box 47, SRW MSS.

211 "Those who...": Tampa Tribune, 27 Feb. 1975, A13.

212 "to stop...": Ioana Martinke to BF, 24 Feb. 1975, Box 6, O'Neill MSS.

212 "consider yourself...": Linda Goolsbee to BF, c. Feb. 1975, Box 6, O'Neill MSS.

212 Within three weeks...: See BF Mail Analysis, Box 39, SRW MSS.

212 "absolutely delighted...": LAT, 18 Feb. 1975, 4:1.

212 "a disaster...": SRW, Lady, p. 102.

212 "take informational...": Don Hewitt, Minute By Minute (New York, 1985), p. 27.

212 "current manners...": Charles Montgomery Hammond, Jr., The Image Decade (New York, 1981), p. 42. See also Richard L. Rubin, Press, Party, and Presidency (New York, 1981), p. 149.

212 "really": SRW, Lady, p. 102.

212 "Nobody at...": SRW in Parade, 25 Apr. 1976, p. 4.

212 Reporters were...: Study, Reuven Frank in Edward Jay Epstein, News From Nowhere (New York, 1973), pp. 14, 206, 4.

213 "drinking problem...": Hewitt, Minute, p. 101.

213 "occasionally with...": "Mrs. Ford Composite Tape," 9 Jan. to 3 Dec. 1975, F758, GRF AV.

213 "My dad...": Nwswk, 18 Oct. 1976, p. 42.

213 "Well, I...": ABC, "Barbara Walters Interview with President and Mrs. Ford," 6 Dec. 1976, Transcript, p. 4, Box 55, Ron Nessen MSS, GRF Lib.

213 "Look, you...": Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 1975, p. 23, clipping, Box 134, Nessen MSS.

213 "I told my...": CBS, "60 Minutes," 10 Aug. 1975, F388, GRF AV.

213 "swinging gal": Mrs. Don E. Farkas to BF, 20 Apr. 1975, Box 24, GRF WHSoc-Subject.

213 "Briefly, I...": BF, Times, p. 33.

214 "ready for...": James Cannon, Time and Chance: Gerald Ford's Appointment with History (New York, 1994), p. 46.

214 "It taught me...": SatEP, Sept. 1976, p. 120.

214 "I'm Leslie...": GRF, Time to Heal, p. 48; James Cannon, Time and Chance, p. 14; "Growing Up in Grand Rapids," clipping, p. 34, Box 1, O'Neill MSS.

214 "comes as...": Coach Gettings, Interview, 18 Aug. 1976, Sound Roll Transcripts," Box E41, PFC.

214 "deeply in...": GRF, A Time to Heal, p. 56.

214 "would never...": Cannon, Time and Chance, pp. 31-32.

214 "When are...": Gerald Ford, Time to Heal, p. 62.

215 "handsome blond...": BF, Times, p. 46, 48.

215 "low-key": GRF, Time to Heal, p. 32.

215 "I'd like...": GRF, Time to Heal, p. 65.

215 "admitted that he..." BF, Times, p. 53.

215 "complete farce...": BF, Times, p. 61.

215 "a combination...": NYDN, 10 Jan. 1965, p. 4.

215 "thinking man's...": Pittsburgh Press, 9 Feb. 1965, p. 29.

215 "a man's...": LA Herald Examiner, 15 Jul. 1964, Box 60, SRW MSS.

215 "the prettiest...": Holand Evening Sentinel, 12 May 1954, Box 60, SRW MSS.

215 "as good-looking...": Bill Henry," "Now Maybe Ford For President," c. Jan. 1965, clipping, Box 60 SRW MSS.

215 pictured: See, for example, Grand Rapids Press, 4 Oct. 1962, p. 21; Pittsburgh Press, 9 Feb. 1965, p. 29; WasP, 17 Jan. 1965, Box 60 SRW MSS; LHJ, April 1961, Box 38, SRW MSS.

215 "the secret...": DetFP 1965, clipping, Box 60, SRW MSS.

215 "The Congress...": BF, Times, p. 123.

215 "the ego...": Nwswk, 7 Oct. 1974, p. 32.

216 "but mostly...": BF, Times, p. 123.

216 "a warm...": Cannon, Time and Chance, p. 74.

216 "The loneliness...": BF, Times, p. 122.

216 A photo: WasP, 17 Jan. 1965, F6.

216 "a sounding...": LouCJ, 31 July 1974, A6.

216 "It siphoned...": BF, Times, p. 124.

216 "We would...": Cannon, Time and Chance, p. 89.

216 "weather the...": GRF, "Material from writing Time to Heal."

216 Americans were ashamed...": Josepf Veroff, Richard Kulka, Elizabeth Douvan, Mental Health in America, (New York, 1981), p. 266.

216 "There was...": BF, Times, p. 127.

216 "a lot...": BF, Times, p. 125.

216 Studies were...: Barbara Sinclair Dockard, The Women's Movement, 2nd. ed. (New York, 1975, 1979), p. 63; Alfreda P. Inglehart, Married Women and Work (Lexington, MA, 1979), pp. 42, 45.

216 "my hands...": Gerald Ford, Time to Heal, p. 83.

217 "Are you...": WWD, 15 Oct. 1973, p. 8.

217 "Is it...": Journal, 8 Nov. 1973, B3.

217 "If I could...": WWD, 12 Apr. 1974, p. 72.

217 "It's all...": Ron Nessen, It Sure Looks Different From the Inside (Chicago, 1978), p. 4.

217 "It had...": LAT, 19 Oct. 1973, p. 1.

217 "Otherwise, I...": WWD, 12 Apr. 1974, p. 4.

217 "I live...": WasP, clipping, c. 1973, Box 60, SRW MSS.

217 "As I...": McCall's, May 1974, p. 138.

217 "a successful...": BosG, 21 July 1974, p. 70.

217 "loneliness and...": South Bend Tribune, 30, Dec. 1973, S1.

217 "You can't...": LouCJ, 31 Jul. 1974, A6.

217 "husbands come...": National Star, clipping, c. Jan.- Apr. 1974, Box 61, SRW MSS.

218 "when my...": In her memoirs Betty admits, "I started seeing a psychiatrist twice a week" in 1965; BF, Times, p. 124; LouCJ, 31 Jul. 1974, A6; WWD, 28 Dec. 1973, p. 9; DetFP, 19 Oct. 1973, C1; LAT, 19 Oct. 1973, p. 1; NYP, 15 Dec. 1973, p. 21.

218 "two years...": LouCJ, 31 July 1974, A6; WWD, 28 Dec. 1973, p. 9; NYP, 15 Dec. 1973, p. 21.

218 "my problems...": BF to National Association of Mental Health Centers, 2 Nov. 1974, Box 3, SRW MSS.

218 For once: Hartmann, Palace Politics, p. 131.

218 "would fall...": GRF, Time to Heal, p. 9.

218 "the saddest...": BF, Times, p. 1.

218 "break down": GRF, Time to Heal, p. 32.

218 "Straight talk...": USNWR, 19 Aug. 1974, p. 74.

218 "In other...": WasP, 10 Aug. 1974, A1.

218 "openness and...": USNWR, 19 Aug. 1974, p. 74.

218 "Mr. Nice Guy": NYDN, 22 Aug. 1974, p. 62.

218 "close-knit...": "Betty Polls and Surveys," Box 39, SRW MSS.

219 "The nation's...a plain...": WasS, 10 Aug. 1974, B1.

219 "typical...": " BF Just Isn't Perfect Political Wife," c. Aug. 1974, Box 61, SRW MSS.

219 "I do...": Youngstown Daily Vindicator, 24 Sept. 1974, p. 21.

219 "more folksy": BosG, 9 Aug. 1974, p. 33.

219 "instead of an...": Vogue, Sept. 1974, p. 269.

219 "FORDS MOVE...": SLGD, 21 Aug. 1974, A16.

219 "We've been...": W, 23 Aug. 1974, p. 5.

219 "the same...": Ibid.

219 "Middle America": McCall's, Sept. 1975, p. 30.

219 "Life is...": SLGD, 20 Sept. 1974, A13.

219 "the traditional...": Dockard, Women's Movement, p. 73.

219 "building blocks...": John Demos, Past, Present, and Personal (New York, 1986), pp. 37-38.

219 "Divorce has...": Parade, 26 Oct. 1975, p. 4.

219 "much conduct...": The American Scholar, Winter 1993, p. 19. See also, TNR, 22 Nov. 1993, "Defining Deviancy Up," which describes what happened to the Nixons, whereby their "wholesome" behavior was deemed abnormal.

219 "a credit...": National Republican Congressional Committee, Wives Manual (Washington, D.C., 1972), pp. 3-5, 10.

220 "This behavior...": Nancy M. Howe to Mary M. Huston, 13 Sept. 1974, Box 1, O'Neill MSS.

220 "The Relentless...": Time, 7 Oct. 1974, p. 15.

220 habit of...: Dynamic Maturity, Jan. 1976, p. 13.

220 "meant a...": NBC, "Today" Show, 15 Aug. 1974, p. 3, transcript, Box 37, SRW MSS.

220 "This does...": Time, 7 Oct. 1974, p. 20.

220 "the very...": Winnie McLendon to Jerry ter Horst, Aug. 1974, pp. 1-3, in Ron Nessen to Jerry Jones, 10 July 1975, Box 130, Nessen MSS.

220 "I've been...": Nwswk, 19 Aug. 1974, p. 30.

220 "What would...": BF, Times, p. 168.

220 "hippie' or...": Teresa R. Vidal to BF, 18 Aug. 1974, Box 29, WHSoc-Subject.

220 "pants suits...": Opal Edwards to BF, 6 Sept. 1974, Box 14, WHSoc-Subject.

220 "highly undignified...": Mrs. Randolph Richards to BF, 19 Aug. 1974, Box 14, WHSoc-Subject.

220 "helluva": Mr. W. L. Helton to BF, 13 Sept. 1974, Box 14, WHSoc-Subject.

220 "It seems...": Howard R. Miller to BF, 10 Sept. 1974, Box 14, WHSoc-Subject.

220 "Many people...": "Today" Show, 15 Aug. 1974, p. 2.

221 "lobby": Family Crafts, Mar. 1976, p. 15. See also, NYTM, 8 Dec. 1974, p. 87.

221 "Now their...": Current Events, 28 Feb. 1975, p. 7.

221 "light-hearted response": Mara S. Perrott to Gisele F. Anderson, 30 May 1975, Box 12 GRF WHSoc-Subject.

221 "sexist attitudes": LHJ, Jan. 1975, pp. 72, 109, 116.

221 "Uhhh, you know...": WWD, 30 Aug. 1974, p. 4.

221 "sex appeal": Hewitt in TV Guide, 20 Oct. 1973, p. 16.

221 Safer asked...: CBS, "60 Minutes," 10 Aug. 1975, F388, Transcript, pp. 1-13, Box 6, SRW MSS.

222 "you just...": SRW, Lady, p. 172.

222 "he stormed...": NYDN, 29 Dec. 1975, p. 32.

222 "I can't...": SLGD, 20 Sept. 1974, A13.

222 "to try...": The Staff to GF, 1 May 1976, Box 132, Nessen MSS.

222 "SUSAN HAVING...": The Herald-Journal, Logan, UT, 11 Aug. 1975, p. 1.

222 "endorsed premarital...": Virginian Gazette, 11 Aug. 1975, p. 1.

222 "nothing...not yet...": CBS, "Evening News," 11 Aug. 1975, BF Composite Tape, 9 Jan. To 3 Dec. 1975, F758, GRF AV.

223 On "Today" ...: NBC, "Today" Show, c. 17 Aug. 1975, BF Composite.

223 "us to...": "First Lady Draws Praise from Episcopalian," clipping, Box 62, SRW MSS.

223 "I thought wow...": Chicago Sun-Times: Two, 14 Aug. 1975, p. 75.

223 "to rewrite...": Sentinel Star, 17 Aug. 1975, B9.

223 "the super-policemen...": WasP, 25 Aug. 1975, A21.

223 On popularity see Columbia Journalism Review, Nov./Dec. 1975. p. 16.

223 "Betty meant...": NYT, 26 Aug. 1975, p. 17.

223 "Betty Ford freely admits...": McCall's, Sept. 1975, pp. 93, 120, 122, 124.

224 "MRS. FORD DOES..." CBS, ABC reports, BF Composite Tape, F758.

224 "you never...": Interview 6:9, Sept. 1975, p. 16. On Steve Ford see SRW, Lady, p. 402.

224 "be very..."GRF in clipping, [UPI], 8 Oct. 1975, Box 40, SRW MSS.

224 "announcement...": SatEP, Sept. 1976, p. 64.

224 "private identity": Mrs. James A. Wilcox to BF, 11 Aug. 1975, Box 459, "Con" Bulk Mail Samples, GRF WHSoc.

224 "You are...": quoted in Myra G. Gutin and Leesa E. Tobin, "'You've Come a Long Way, Mr. President': Betty Ford as First Lady," in Finestone and Ugrinsky, GRF and Politics, p. 623.

224 "Miss America...": Chicago Sun-Times: Two, 14 Aug. 1975, p. 75.

224 "Truth is...": Girard T. Bryant to BF, 26 Aug. 1975, Box 439 "Con" Bulk Mail Samples, GRF WHSoc.

224 "doormats": Laurie Ruby to BF, 22 Aug. 1975, Box 12, WHSoc-Subject.

224 "if I...": Mrs. Charles Sec to BF, 28 Aug. 1975, Box 4, Exec, PP5-1.

225 "gray, no-woman's...": LHJ, Nov. 1975, p. 118.

225 Forty-four percent...: Dennis A. Gilbert, Compendium of American Public Opinion (New York, 1988), p. 324.

225 "Any president...": Anne L. Brown to GRF, 11 Aug. 1975, Box 458, "Con" Bulk Mail Samples, GRF WHSoc.

225 "Permissive sex...": Mrs. Paul D. King, et al, 26 Aug. 1975, Box 459, "Con" Bulk Mail Samples, GRF WHSoc.

225 "God is...": Jeanne M. Griffiths, 12 Aug. 1975, Box 458, "Con" Bulk Mail Samples, GRF WHSoc.

225 "lived twenty-six...": BF Form Letter, Sept. 1976, Box 1, O'Neill MSS.

225 "profession...": BF, "Remarks to the Homemakers Association," 26 Sept. 1975, pp. 2, 3, 7, Box 7, SRW MSS.

225 "one of...": WasP, 10 Nov. 1975, B9.

225 "I certainly...": People, 29 Dec. 1975 - 5 Jan. 1976, p. 16.

225 "trademark": Women's Work, Jan./Feb. 1976, p. 18.

225 "Woman of...": Nwswk, 29 Dec. 1976, p. 19.

226 People...: People, 29 Dec. 1975 - 5 Jan. 1976, p. 16.

226 "If only...": Richard S. Dawson, Jr. to BF, 25 Aug. 1975, Box 443, "Pro" Bulk Mail Samples, GRF WHSoc.

226 "Gerald Ford is much...": Dallas Morning News, clipping, in Box 12, GRF WHSoc-Subject.

226 The First Lady's mail...: Staff Secretary to GRF, 1-29 Aug. 1975, Box 3, WH 4-1 Mail, GRF WHCF, 12975.

226 "We think...": William J. Gordy to Harold Calloway, 13 Aug. 1975, Box 80, PFC.

226 "Your statements...": Mrs. John Richard Ghilon to BF, 11 Aug. 1975, Box 458-459, "Con" Bulk Mail Samples, GRF WHSoc.

226 "Reagan's core...": Earl Black and Merle Black, The Vital South (Cambridge, MA, 1992), pp. 273-279.

226 "the new morality..." "Mrs. Reagan, Mrs. Ford Disagree on Sex..." LAT, 20 Sept. 1975, clipping, Box 63, SRW MSS.

226 "Betty or...": Pamphlet in Box 12, Susan Porter MSS, GRF Lib.

227 "hasn't the...": Market Opinion Research, Aug. 1976, p. 3, Box 54, Teeter MSS, GRF Lib.

227 "Unlike her...": Parade, 25 Apr. 1976, p. 4.

227 "stole the...": NYDN, 29 Dec. 1975, p. 32.

227 "the change...": Time, 28 July 1975, p. 7.

227 "carries about...": Nwswk, 24 Nov. 1975, p. 30.

227 Time chronicled...: Time, 5 Jan. 1976, p. 33. See also John Robert Greene, The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford (Lawrence, KS, 1995), p. 62.

228 "Since you...": R. Schlosser to GRF, 14 Aug. 1975, Box 458, "Con" Bulk Mail Samples, GRF WHSoc.

228 "accident prone": People, 29 Dec. 1975 - 5 Jan. 1976, p. 19.

228 "close friend...": NYT, 16 Dec. 1975, p. 45.

228 "a beautiful...": NYT, 15 Dec. 1975, p. 31.

228 "private behavior...": NYT, 21 Dec. 1975, 4:1.

228 "Jack Kennedy's...": Time, 29 Dec. 1975, pp. 10, 11.

228 "presidential performance": NYT, 23 Dec. 1975, p. 23.

229 "a kind...": Nwswk, 29 Dec. 1975, p. 14.

229 "a shocking...": National Enquirer, 2 Mar. 1976, p. 4.

229 "I never...": Harris Wofford, Of Kennedys and Kings, (Pittsburgh, 1980, 1992), p. 492.

229 The 1975 disclosures...: On the refusal of the general public to believe these revelations see Thomas Brown, JFK: History of an Image (Bloomington, Indiana, 1988), pp. 70-77.

229 "He enjoys...": Nwswk, 24 Nov. 1975, p. 32; The Media Report, 21 Nov 1975, p. 1.

229 "publicly." The Media Report, 21 Nov. 1975, p. 1.

229 Aides called...: Paul Theis to Ron Nessen, 18 Dec. 1975, Box 127, Nessen MSS; Ron Nessen to Dick Cheney, 18 Dec. 1975, 25 Nov. 1975, both in Box 127, Nessen MSS; Interview with Robert T. Hartmann, 27 Jan. 1976, p. 22, Box 129, Hartmann MSS.

229 "Character will...": The Media Report, 21 Nov. 1975, p. 1.

229 "What used...": WasP, 25 May 1976, C3.

229 "a man...": ChiT, 6 June 1976, p. 4.

230 In an increasingly..." See Richard Sennett, The Fall of Public Man (New York, 1974, 1976); Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism, (New York, 1978).

230 "moral leader": George Van Cleeve to David Gergen, n.d., Box 2, David Gergen MSS, GRF Lib.

230 "neighborhood, community...": William J. Barrody, Jr. to GRF, 17 Sept. 1975, pp. 2, 4, 5, Box 9, Richard Cheney MSS, GRF Lib.

230 "the first...": SRW, Lady, p. 248.

231 "It's physical..": Mary McGrory, "BF out front with Most Everyone," clipping, c. Feb. 1975, Box 4, Exec, PP5-1.

231 "the President's biggest...": See, for example, Barbara Walters, c. Feb. 1976 on BF and Sons Summary Tape, 12 Jan. - 19 Aug. 1976, 83-11-19, GRF AV.

231 "individuals rather...": People, 4 Mar. 1974, p. 2.

231 "ELECT BETTY'S...": BF, Times, p. 258.

231 Mrs. Ford received...: Star, 12 Apr. 1976, clipping, Box 39, SRW MSS.

231 "became so...": BF, Times, p. 255.

231 "He used...": Nwswk, 29 Dec. 1975, p. 23.

231 "never to...": The Presidential Campaign, vol. 2, Gerald Ford (Washington, D.C., 1978), p. 2.

231 As Secret Service...: CBS, "Evening News," c. June, 1976, "Mrs. Ford and Sons," Summary Tape.

231 She enjoyed 71...: ChiT, 9 Aug. 1976, p. 3.

232 A widely...: Nwswk, 30 Aug. 1976, p. 29.

232 "sleazy little...": Tulsa World, clipping, Box 27, SRW MSS.

232 "I just think...": Time, 30 Aug. 1976, p. 31.

232 "Mrs. Ford, too, ...": Elizabeth O'Neill to Mary H. Martin, 28 Sept. 1976, Box 1, O'Neill MSS.

232 "ticket splitters": "Campaign Plan," p. 80, Box 13, Michael Raoul-Duval MSS, GRF Lib.

232 "family campaign...": ABC, "News," c. 18 Aug. 1976 on "Mrs. Ford and Sons," Summary Tape.

232 "not only...": NBC, News Coverage, "GOP Convention," 19 Aug. 1976, F658, Tape 7, 1 of 2.

232 "the television...": President Ford Convention Film, n.d., p. 2, transcript, Box 27, SRW MSS.

233 One scene: "Sound Roll Ford Family Lunch," pp. 75, 76, Box E41, PFC.

233 "principal task...": "Campaign Strategy," Aug. 1976, p. 3, Box 13, Raoul-Duval MSS.

233 "sometimes a...": NYT, 29 Sept. 1976, p. 22.

233 "What a...": GRF, Time to Heal, p. 431.

233 "the emphasis...": NYT, 29 Sept. 1976, p. 22.

233 "There's no...": LAT, 30 Aug. 1976, p. 6.

233 "to communicate him...": ChiT, 17 Aug. 1976, Ford News, 17 Aug.1976, p. 14.

233 "I am not...": WasS, 22 Aug. 1976, E3.

233 "educating me": LHJ, Oct. 1976, p. 86.

233 "Betty has had...": ABC, GRF with Harry Reasoner, 6 Sept. 1976, p. 22, transcript, Box 55, Nessen MSS.

234 "Jerry couldn't...": LAT, 1 Oct. 1976, p. 7.

234 "When I...": WasP, 19 Oct. 1976, p. L1.

234 "Mom, did...": BF, Times, pp. 273, 272.

234 "Mom, did...": BF, Times, pp. 272, 273.

234 "crestfallen": Cannon, Time and Chance, p. 409.

234 "nice person...": Greene, Presidency of GRF, p. 69.

234 "My advice...": WWD, 18 June 1976, p. 1.

234 "still did...": SRW, Lady, p. 417.

235 "male chauvinism": Ibid.

235 From a cross-section...: See GH, Jan. 1975, p. 20; LAT, 2 Jan. 1975, p. 2; WasS, 17 Dec. 1975; GH, Jan. 1977, pp. 42, 44, all clippings in Box 39, SRW MSS. George Gallup, The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion, 1972-1977, (Wilmington, DE, 1978), p. 943.

235 65 percent...: National Enquirer, 14 Sept. 1976, p. 21.

235 "the polarization...": Gregory Bush, Campaign Speeches of American Presidential Candidates, 1948-1984 (New York, 1976, 1985), p. 247.