Betty Ford Quotes

There is nothing like Betty Ford sex.

On the tenth anniversary of her founding of the Betty Ford Center, President Ford said, “When the final tally is taken, her contributions to our country will be bigger than mine.” And that was just fine with him.

As far as my fellow students go, I’m one of the two dangerous rebels who turned up in office casual; the rest are so desperately sober that if you could bottle them you could put the Betty Ford Clinic out of business.

In that turbulent time, the happenstance First Lady, Betty Ford, was certain of one thing: she would not change. 'I've spent too many years as me,' she declared. 'I can't suddenly turn into a princess.

When some members of the Ford team (including the former president and Betty) left the White House for California the next day, it was said that everyone onboard a backup plane (Carter did not grant permission for them to use Air Force One) refused to eat the peanuts from an offering of mixed nuts—and then, in a fit of political pique (reinforced, perhaps by semi-serious hangovers or still slightly inebriated embers of the previous night’s ceremonial drowning of sorrows), purposely tossed the peanuts around the aircraft.

First ladies aren’t elected. But Betty Ford had even less of a mandate from the people than the other members of her sorority: Her husband remains the only American vice president and president who was elected to neither position. That she made the most of the situation and acted so ambitiously on projects dear to her is impressive enough. That she then went on to overcome her addictions, share them with the world, and draw upon her personal experience to help others in the same predicament - well, that’s simply heroic.

That’s a nice car you’ve got outside,” he remarked. “1979 Ford Thunderbird lowrider. It used to belong to Ice-T. I like my cars like my breasts,” Betty replied. “Low slung.

As he slowly began to recover, the family was told that he needed psychological help to survive. Through the hospital, the family contacted the Betty Ford Center, a heralded new alcohol and drug addiction treatment facility in the celebrity-rich Palm Springs area a couple of hours east of Los Angeles.

[A few months after they came into office, Mrs. Ford discovered she had breast cancer.] This was, in some ways, the indelible moment when she first impressed herself on the American people. The whole Ford family did. It is really hard, forty years later, to conceive of the degree to which people didn’t talk about this disease. Euphemisms were employed. Even in obituaries, people didn’t die of breast cancer. They died of a “wasting illness.” What Mrs. Ford did was to bring this out in the open and, overnight, transform the way women, in particular, looked at this disease. For her, it was also a lesson. It was her first and most important lesson in the influence that a first lady could have just by being herself, by shining the light on a dark corner, by educating the public. It initiated a national conversation, a conversation among women, a conversation between women and their doctors. When it comes to women’s health issues, literally, history is divided into two periods: there’s before Betty, and after Betty.