martha graham and joined her dance company. >> i always treasured my time dedicated to the martha graham dance company, where i was with them for 2 1/2 years in new york. >> after a brief flirtation with molding she returned to michigan in 1941 and worked at a local department store and there after an unsuccessful marriage she met the yale law school graduate and war veteran who would change her live, gerald r. ford, and they were married october 15, 1948, and two weeks after walking downtown aisle, gerald was elected to the first term in congress beginning the road to the white house. as first lady, her outspokenness in trying circumstances endecemberred her to the nation. a month after her husband took office, she was diagnosis the with breast cancer. >> i got hundreds of thousands of women to their doctors and to clinics for breast exams. >> the candidness was not