Betty ford spoke her mind. Prochoice and a supporter of the equal rights amendment, she and president gerald ford openly discussed her experience with Breast Cancer. For much of her familys public life, she struggled with drug and alcohol dependency, and confronting it defined her postwhite house years. Good evening and welcome to cspans series first ladies influence and image. Tonight well tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of gerald ford. Here for the next 90 minutes to tell her story is Richard Norton smith, president ial historian. If youve been watching our series, you know him. Hes one of the academic advisers for the project. Hes launched a number of president ial libraries, among them the gerald r. Ford library in michigan. You developed a relationship with the fords. So, you bring that to the table as well. Sure, in interest of full disclosure, i try to be as objective as possible. But i was very fortunate to become friends with both of the fords. But we want to st
Ourselves . I do not believe that being first lady should prevent me from expressing my ideas. Betty ford spoke her mind, pro choice and a supporter of the equal rights amendment, she and president gerald ford openly discussed her experience with Breast Cancer, through much oher familys public life, she struggled with drug and alcohol dependency and confronting it defined her postwhite house years. Welcome to first ladies, influence and image. Tonight, well tell you the story of elizabeth ford, the wife of our 38th president , president gerald ford, and here for the nebs 90 minutes to tell her story is Richard Norton smith, president ial historian. If you have been watching our series, you know him. Hes an academic adviser for the whole project and hes launched a whole number of libraries, among them the gerald r. Ford. Along the way, you developed a relationship with the fords. In the interest of full disclosure, i try to be as objective as possible, but yeah, i was very fortunate to
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Now please enjoy all the boooogers boooogers and cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum from comedy centrals world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with trevor noah cheers and applause trevor welcome to the daily show im trevor noah thank you so much for tuning in weve got a great show for you tonight. Our guest dr. Elizabeth ford is here to talk about Mental Health in the criminal Justice System. Its going to be a really interesting conversation. So stick around for that. But first, were back, people thank you for having us back. The daily show took a week off. Yes, i had some parole bleep i had to take care of. Even though we were gone, the news carried on, which was very rude, i must say. But were going to try to catch up on everything in one show which might be possible but i think if we keep our foot on the gas and stay focused we can do it which is word for word the pep talk tiger woods gave himself before driving home the other night. See i slipped it in efficiently and we mov
Now please enjoy all the boooogers boooogers and cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum from comedy centrals world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with trevor noah cheers and applause trevor welcome to the daily show im trevor noah thank you so much for tuning in weve got a great show for you tonight. Our guest dr. Elizabeth ford is here to talk about Mental Health in the criminal Justice System. Its going to be a really interesting conversation. So stick around for that. But first, were back, people thank you for having us back. The daily show took a week off. Yes, i had some parole bleep i had to take care of. Even though we were gone, the news carried on, which was very rude, i must say. But were going to try to catch up on everything in one show which might be possible but i think if we keep our foot on the gas and stay focused we can do it which is word for word the pep talk tiger woods gave himself before driving home the other night. See i slipped it in efficiently and we mov