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Digitized from Box 19 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
- A.F.-1, Andrews to Grand Junction, Colo.-Dec. 23, 1975
President Ford, coatless, wearing a business suit, boanded the plane
carrying a. dark brown puppy in his arms. Mrs. Ford, wearing a fun
coat, led Liberty on a leash. We were told later thatt the puppy/ was
a three-month-old Chesapeake Bay Retriever named Riva that belongs to
Jack, who will arrive in Vail later today from the Wost Coast.. He
traded one of Liberty's puppies for it about three or four wooks
ago, according to Sheila Weidepfeld.
Takaoff was att 8:19 a.m. Passengers included Dick Cheney with his
wife and two childrew, Donald Rumsfeld with wife and three children,
Sheila and Ed Weidenfeld, Brent Scowcroft and Rom Nessew.
According to Nessen, the President worked on the plane our two folders
of Bills and personnel appointments and on other paper work. Nesson
said he signed some bills and appointments
He
expects "a fair number" of bill signings
in Vail.
Giving what he described as a "human interest story," № ssem said the
President put in a phone call att 7:15 p.m. yesterday to Beth Amr
Cameron, 8 years old, in Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn.
Beth Ann was oxphaned when her parents and three sisters were killed
in a truck accident in Vermont
about two weeks ago.
Since them she has been hospitalized with broken arms, legs and other
injuries she suffered when she fell 871 feet from the bridge the family's
truck slammed into. According to an AP story im Saturday's Washington
Star, she is afraid Santa won't find her this Christmas because she
was taken to the hospital im Connecticut, The after first having been
taken to a hospital in New Hampshire. The President, according to
Nessen, told her he would make sure that Santa knew where she was so
that he could bring her presents. Nessem had DO report of the child's
reaction. He said the call lasted four or five minutes.
The President plans to
change clothes and head
for the ski slopes immediately after arrival in Vail, Nessep said.
Stan Carter