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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box 45, folder \"Ford, Susan - \"Women's Wear\nDaily\" Article, 10/12/76\" of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential\nLibrary.\nCopyright Notice\nThe copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of\nphotocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Gerald Ford donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to\nremain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid\ncopyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nSome items in this folder were not digitized because it contains copyrighted\nmaterials. Please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library for access to\nthese materials.\nDigitized from Box 45 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\n10/12/76 Susan Ford: 71. A Pg.\nvote\nFOCUS\nfor private life\nBy TOBI NYBERG\nLOS ANGELES - If Gerald Ford is defeated in his cam-\npaign for the presidency, it may not upset his daughter, Susan,\nas much as might be imagined.\n\"We'd get our father back, and that would be just great,\"\nsaid the President's 19-year-old daughter. \"The only thing is\nI'd be afraid for the country with Jimmy Carter as president.'\nWhether her father wins\nSusan rora:\nEYE®\nVIEW\nTotal Number of Pages 38,\nIncludes 2 Page Supplement\na vote for private life\nContinued From Page One\ncleaned up, but it made Mother senti-\nment about Eastern Europe not being\nmental. She misses the normal life,\ndominated by the Soviet Unton, a sub-\nbeing able to do her own cooking and\nall that. But she realizes she can't be\nJect she was quick to sidestep.\nthat selfish.\"\n\"I think the debates have helped\nmy father 100 percent,\" she said, sit-\nLast month, Susan moved into\nting in a blue dressing gown, wearing\nher own apartment, which she shares\nwith three schoolmates, so she could\nno makeup and having coffee and a\nhave more of a normal life.\ncigaret.\n\"I want to be just like everyone\nWOMEN'S WEAR DAILY, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1976-\nWhat about the President's\napparent faux pas on Eastern Europe\nelse,\" she said. \"I want to be just like\nduring the second debate?\nevery other college girl, and living on\nyour own is what other girls my age\n\"What's that all about?\" she\nare doing today.\"\nsaid. \"I don't know anything about\nthat. I haven't seen a newspaper in a\nMost girls, however, are not ac-\nweek. Father was 100 percent better\ncompanied by Secret Service agents\non the second debate. On the first de-\nwherever they go, but Susan said\nbate, you could tell both men were\nshe's used to It by now. \"They're a su-\nfeeling themselves out. But by the\nper group and they really don't inter-\nsecond, Daddy was more straight-\nfere with anything,\" she said.\nforward, more comfortable.\"\nShe declined to discuss boy.\nfriends, but chuckled delightedly\nS\nhe said she was in Springfield, III.,\nabout the freedom she has living on\n\"doing precinct work\" with her\nher own.\nbrother Jack when she heard Butz's\n\"I can take off my contacts, put\nresignation as Secretary of Agricul-\non glasses and blue jeans and go any-\nture.\nwhere and not be recognized,\" she\n\"I talked to Mother that night\nsaid. \"I have more fun going into\nabout\nit.\nHis\nplaces and having a good time as ME,\nnot as the President's daughter. Poor"
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