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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box 9, folder \"4/3/76 - Gridiron Dinner\" of the\nSheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\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 Gerald R. Ford donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain.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 9 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nWASHINGTON PRESS CLUB OFFICERS\nAMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEWSPAPER EDITORS\nPresident\nWarren H. Phillips of New York, president of ASNE,\nPeggy Simpson, Associated Press\neditor-director Wall Street Journal\nFirst Vice President\nWilliam J. Eaton, Chicago Daily News\nGeorge Chaplin, vice president of ASNE, editor and chief\nHonolulu Advertiser\nSecond Vice President\nEllen Wadley, CBS News\nEugene Patterson, secretary of ASNE, editor/president\nThird Vice President\nthe St. Petersburg Times, Fla.\nHelene Melzer, Treasury Department\nJohn Hughes of Boston, treasurer of ASNE, editor\nSecretary\nChristian Science Monitor\nE. Fannie Granton, Johnson Publishing Co.\nTreasurer\nBarbara Estabrook, Commerce Department\nBOARD\nMEMBERS\nJohn W. Finney, New York Times\nRonald Sarro, Washington Star\nToni House, Washington Star\nMargaret Scherf, Associated Press\nNour R. Cl. Hzyan, N.E.W.S. Photo News\nMarguerite Sullivan, Copley Newspapers\nTwo\nDavid Murray, Chicago Sun-Times\nMarjorie Yahraes, U.S. Information Agency\nCenturies\nof\nEDITORS' DINNER\nRewrite\nCo-Chairs\nNatalie Davis Spingarn, Free Lance\nFrank Swoboda, McGraw-Hill Publications\nAnn Blackman, Associated Press\nAlbert Hunt, Wall Street Journal\nMary Boyette, American Assn. of University Women\nHarry Kelly, Chicago Tribune\nLiz Carpenter, Hill & Knowlton, Inc.\nEllen Marcus, Free Lance\nMarlene Cimons, Los Angeles Times\nCharmayne Marsh, U.S. Postal Service\nRonald Cohen, United Press International\nAnn McFeatters, Scripts-Howard Newspapers\nAnne Crutcher, Washington Star\nHenry McGee, Newsweek\nWilliam J. Eaton, Chicago Daily News\nSandy Rovner, Washington Post\nDorothy Gilliam, Washington Post\nRonald Sarro, Washington Star\nAnne Groer, Orlando Sentinel-Star\nBernard Shaw, CBS News\nMaria Gwaltney Sommers, WTAE-TV & Radio,\nGerry Van der Heuvel, Free Lance\nHearst Broadcasting\nJanet Staihar, Associated Press\nLEBEAU DESIGNS\nMARK RUSSELL, comedian\nTwo Centuries of Rewrite\nA Washington Press Club Production\nMENU\nDirected by: Teddy Handfield\nMinute Man Mousse ala Martha\nStarring: Tom Flaherty, Vera Glaser, Ronald Cohen,\nCornwallis-fed Duckling\nDavid Jewell, Nina Totenberg, Warren Weaver, Lucille Larkin,\nLiberty Bell Salad (with cracked dressing)\nWilliam J. Eaton, Frances Spatz Leighton, David Murray,\nDessert-A Yankee Doodle Dandy\nBonnie Angelo, Vada Ward, Ellen Marcus, Ann McFeatters,\nSara Fritz, Helen Thomas\nVin du Chateau LaFayette\nWritten by: Marlene Cimons, Anne Groer, Warren Weaver,\nDavid Murray, Sandy Rovner, William J. Eaton\nDirector's Assistant: Marguerite Sullivan\nProps and Costumes: Pat Fanning\nRehearsal Pianist: Walter Graham\nTechnical Director: James Petosa\nDancing to Devron\nDEPARTMENT R. FORD LIBRARY\n\"Fugue for Pundits\"\n\"Nixon Song\"\n\"First Woman\"\nTo tune of \"Fugue for Tinhorns\"\nTo tune of\nTo tune of \"I Am Woman\"\nfrom Guys and Dolls\n\"I Only Cry at Weddings\"\nSung Angelo by Bonnie\nfrom Sweet Charity\nI'm First Woman, hear me speak\nFor Jerry Ford I'll fight,\nNo more quiet, no more meek\nI hear his head's all right,\nI've got more to do than smile and shake your hand\nOf course, it all depends if there's a wall in sight.\nI've got E-R-A to pass\nCan do, can do.\nIt's tough for a gentle soul like me\nTho my kids are smoking grass\nThis poll says the guy can do.\nWho's never been wedded to the truth\nWhile I lobby for abortion on demand.\nIf Reagan is up the flue,\nTo admit to the world and my family\nCan do, can do\nThat I get my kicks in a polling booth\nYes, I am brave - of the press 1 have no fear\nTomorrow when I vote for me I'll cry,\nJerry may be running, but it's me they're gonna hear.\nI see a Carter win,\nAnd now it's time for me to tell you why\nIf you ask me, I will say anything\nHe's got that Chiclet grin,\nI am free, I am quotable, I'm first woman.\nAnd on the real big issues he's hard to pin.\nI've always loved elections, they are just like resurrections\nTry Jim, Try Jim\nI walk into a polling place and face the name I love to face\nI'm First Woman, not a mouse\nThe South's really proud of him.\nI thrive on all the fixin' or my names not Richard Nixon\nNot a prisoner in this House\nGeorge Wallace was just a whim\nTo purchase votes I found the way: they're always airlines who can pay.\nI wanna keep this job - I want to do much more\nTry Jim, Try lim.\nI'll get a woman on the court\nMy enemies were listed, for their sordid souls were twisted,\nAnd I will, with your support,\nI've got the choice this fall,\nBut my feelings for them now are quite refined\nPut women where they've never been before.\nThe man is Mo Udall\nI've always loved elections, perfection is elections,\nAmong the lib-ral leaders he sure stands tall.\nJust as long as they were mine\nYes, I am brave. Of the press I have no fear\nCan do, can do.\nI am Betty Ford I'm the woman of the year.\nThe left knows what's right for you.\nI've always loved the White House, knew for me it was the right house.\nIf I want to, I will do anything I am free\nAs they proved in sev'nty-two.\nIt's all baloney that my Sony only played Hail to the chief.\nI'm unimpeachable\nCan do, can do\nMy oval office wiring was perfect for conspiring\nI'm First Woman\nI'd still be there, right on the job, if it weren't for Carl and Bob\nScoop Jackson rings the bell,\nWith friends of Is-ray-el\nIt's perfectly clear now,\nAnd with the union bosses he does damn well.\nThat I'd like to reapper now,\nwritten J.\nTry Scoop, Try Scoop\nIt was all a big mistake that I resigned.\nHis eyelids no longer droop\nJust one more election; a landslide's my projection,\nMarlene Cimons\nAnd he's not your Commie dupe,\nAnd the White House once more will be mine\nTry Scoop, Try Scoop\nGeorge Wallace is my pick\nFor rebel rhetoric\nBecause his finger-lickin' chicken-picken' just might click\nRight on, Right on\nThe Wallace phenomenon\n\"Kissinger song\"\nIs big with the Pentagon.\nRight on, Right on.\nTo tune of \"I want to teach\n\"Yankee Doodle Closer\"\nRon Reagan is no bum\nBut lately he's so glum\nthe world to live\nSinging: \"California, here I come.\"\nTo tune of Yankee Doodle\nCan't do, can't do\nin perfect harmony.\"\nHis primary votes were few\nJohnny Zenger led the fight,\nUnless Ford gets Asian flu\nTo keep the press unfettered\nCan't do, can't do.\nThanks to him we're free to write\nI vant to teach the world to live\nThough Hubert's acting coy,\nFor editors unlettered\nIn perfect harmony\nIt's just a clever ploy\nAnd if I tap a telephone\nFirst Amendment, talk it up,\nTo resurrect his old campaign of joy\nIt's in the family\nOur free press is dandy!\nCan't wait, can't wait.\nDamn the Congress and the courts\nFor Humphrey, the man of fate,\nI'd like to see Arabs and Jews\nBut keep a lawyer handy!\nIt can't ever be too late\nAll standing hand in hand\nCan't wait, can't wait.\nSo if I make a secret deal\nFirst amendment must prevail\nI'm sure you'll understand\nIn ev'ry high court showdown\nLook out for Kennedy,\nOr the press will go to jail\nHe's saying no-sireee,\nChorus\nFor bringing you the lowdown.\nBut, after all, he's the last of the dynasty.\nHe's an unreal thing\nMight run, might run\nShould Shriver have all the fun?\nMaking diplomats flip\n(Women sing)\nIt's 'Wow' for NOW and E-R-A\nNow brother-in-law is done,\nBut we keepsending Henry on\nHis world-wide ego trip\nOn editor'l pages\nMight run, might run\nButwomen's numbers still are low\nAnd so are women's wages\nThe numbers are first rate,\nFor every candidate\n(Men sing)\nOf course, they could be losers whose polls look great.\nCarl and Bob are back at work\nCan do, can do.\nOur millionaire reporters\nThese polls say the guys can do.\nI never mind a leak or two\nRest of us must be content\nThough some now have dropped from view\nIf they make me look wise\nWith nickles, dimes and quarters.\nCan do, can do.\nAnd if some Senators complain\nI'll blame two other guys\nDanny Schorr is on the spot\nGeorge Gallup!\nBefore a House committee.\nNow Democrats are on by butt,\nDoes he talk or does he not?\nLou Harris!\nDemanding that I leave\nWe're down to nitty gritty\nSo I may grab the nearest shuttle\nPat Caddell!\nBack to Tel Aviv\nPublishers ring freedom's bell\nWe've got the word\nTheir vigor's not surprising\nFree news suits them very well\nLike Hell!\nBut not free advertising\n\"Carter Song\"\nTo tune of \"Put on a Happy Face.\"\nWhy should I try to mimic\nGlum fellows in the race?\nI've got a different gimmick:\nPut on a happy face\nFORD\nFlash it at ev'ry guy and doll you see,\nPure porcelain,\nYou'll never need a foreign policy\nIf you can grin.\nFudge the abortion issue,\nFuzz up the busing case\nWhat if my platform's tissue?\nI've got a happy face.\nIf the party gives me second place\nI'll still wear my happy face\nTHE WASHINGTON POST\nB8\nMonday, April 5. 1976\nR\nGridiron Club: Stagi\nBy William Gildea\npress coverage and assures the Presi-\ndent and others that their remarks\nRosalynn Carter says she was get-\nare off the record. Those on the out-\nting dressed for the Gridiron Dinner\nside could console themselves with\nwhen she got the news. \"Jimmy stuck\nhis head in my room and said, 'You're\nthe thought that whatever Mr. Ford\nnot invited.' I thought it'd be great\nhad to say-after reportedly laughing\nfun to go with Jimmy. I was all\nthrough a traditional and, some might\nB\nan Over the Counter Event\n-\nthe IN Mine good eyes old FOCUS Jerry have Ford, seen the glory The of ices of daily with newspapers offices Gridiron here, and plus wire serv few 547 at dinner Rites Cour\na\nHe is stumbling through the vine-\nmusicians - and their guests, rang-\nyards where the primary votes are\ning from the President, Supreme\nas \"Rocky Raccoon, checked into his\nscored,\nCourt justices, Cabinet officers and\nroom/ Only to find nothing doing\"),\nHe has loosed the fateful lightning\nforeign ambassadors to private citi-\nsometimes simply hare-brained (to\nof his terrible dull sword -\nzens like Houston lawyer John Con-\nthe tune of \"Once in Love With\nHe just keeps plodding on.\nnally, and including, quite important-\nAmy\" Start the draft for Betty/\nly, the club members' publishers and\n\"We all go daft for Betty\") musical\nA Gridiron dinner song, 1976.\nother bosses, locally and from out of\nskits in which the costumed news-\ntown.\nmen, like members of a collegiate\nGridirons are for roasting things\nIt was, as it almost always has\nfraternity, lampoon their mighty\non.\nbeen, an impressive congregation of\nguests.\nLike politicians. Heh-heh.\nthe nation's political and media\nLast night, for the 91st year in a\npowers, assembled purely for \"the\nSUCH RITES of silliness date back\nrow, the Gridiron Club of Washing-\npromotion of good fellowship,\" as it\npretty far in American history. One\nton, D.C., held its annual, private\nsays in the club's constitution.\nexample, and not necessarily the old-\ndinner-bash for its members I\nTranslated, that means a lot of\nest, is the undergraduate Hasty Pud-\npresent or former editorial employes\nsome nes witty (the vice president,\n.9g Club at Harvard College. Orga-\nRer to Rusty\nMORE THAN YOU WANT TO KNOW\nMarion Javits at the time, and you know\nABOUT THE NIGHT OF APRIL 3RD\nhow hard to beat Marion is. Now Nancy's\nYou won't recognize the one-time all-\nmale Gridiron Club Dinner this year,\nEar\nback home pecking away at the end of\nher new book, which may or may not be\nEarwigs. The dinosaurs are all going\ncalled \"This is Nancy Dickerson, Report-\noverboard to feminize the event. Some\ning from Washington.\" Nance wouldn't\nmen are bringing two women just to\ngive away a smidgen of what's inside.\nmake sure. Walter Ridder is bringing Jill\nEar can't wait.\nRuckleshaus and Mary Tyler Moore,\nRichard Dudman will drag Barbara\nMEANWHILE, DOWN AMONG THE\nTuchman and Nora Ephron, and Carl\nhere's the fun part: Fran was one of the\nNEWS ABOUT NANCY\nPoor\nBARRISTERS\nYou'll never guess\nRowan will settle for just one - Marga-\noriginal group of 18 newshens who start-\nNancy Dickerson got all tuckered out\nwho's on jury duty this week, darlings.\nret Bush Wilson, board chairman of the\ned the Counter-Gridiron demonstrations\nmarshalling the press behind the velvet\nSocialites Jeanne Viner Bell and Wynant\nNAACP. You've heard by now, of course,\nand parties. Now that the Gridiron has\nropes that night at the Kennedy Center\nVanderpool, O.P. critic Richard Coe, and\nthat the Gridiron has taken in its second\nsmartened up, most of that committee\nwhen everyone saluted Roger Stevens. So\nFerdinand Kuhn, formerly of the O.P.,\nwoman member, Frances Lewine of the\nhas decided to stop razzing the Club. But\noff she went for a little R and R at John\nplus a host of more private types. They\nAP. You may not have heard that Fran's\nthe rest of the gang has gone on to plan\nGardner's divine tennis camp in Scotts-\nhaven't been given a thing to do yet, Ear\nvery own wire service misspelled her\nCounter Gridiron III anyway, just be-\ndale, Arizona. Right there on the courts,\nhears, but they're having a high old time.\nname into a man's, (Francis), the first\ncause the party's always such a scream.\nEarwigs, she broke her foot. But what\nLet's meet right here at the back fence\ntime it sent out the happy news. Now\nEar's out of breath.\nhurts the most is that she was beating\ntomorrow,\nStar 3/10/76\nTEST YOUR REWRITE ACUMEN. UNSCRAMBLE THESE HEADLINES. FOUR WORDS,\nYOU'RE A COPY BOY; EIGHT, YOU'RE A CUB; TEN, CITY EDITOR STATUS;\nBOTH HEADS, ADVANCE TO RANK OF EDI TOR. (IF YOU MUST UNWRAP SCROLL\nFOR ANSWERS, RETURN TO J SCHOOL.)\nAug. 5, 1964\nS.U. LANESP ATTKCA ORNTH EWNMXMX ENTAVMI SSBAE;\nSDNETIPRE ODRSRE (LIIMDET' RETNOIALITA\nRAFTE OMNMUS'TCI TP OATSB NWEER AIDRS\n237\nSept. 28, 1964\nRRENWA MMISISNOOC NDSIF DLAWOS YGTLIU\nNAD SYAS ASSSSINA NAD UBRY ACTED LONEA;\nUKESRE RETSEC VICESER, SSAK INGRVAMEP\nsoji\nThe piece de resistance, once again,\nhas rehearsed twice with dance studio\nwill be nimble, fleet-footed Betty Ford\nowner Vic Daumit, who choreograph-\ndoing that old soft-shoe number. Yes,\ned the dance) will do her shtick in a\nthe once all-male Gridiron Dinner\nlong champagne-colored chiffon shirt-\nwaist gown.\n(now repentant) will feature the First\n'She got it so quickly. She's a real\nLady tonight soft-shoeing her way\nperfectionist,\" said Daumit, who\nthrough the strains of \"Once in Love\nwants to make it perfectly clear he\nwith Amy,\" the words of which have\nwas not the source of this story (and\nbeen altered.\nhe wasn't). After all, he says, most of\nPartnered by Ernie Sult of the Com-\nthe Gridiron-ites have been kept in\nmerce Department, Mrs. Ford (who\nthe dark. Fiat Lux.\nsugar).\nlungs as a result. of infec\nThis Is First Lady'\nAssociated Press\nFirst Lady Betty Ford has\nAmericans buying their per-\nbeen granted a citizens band\nsonal two way radios.\nradio license, the Federal\nMrs. Ford was granted a\nCommunications Commis-\ntemporary license until a\nsion disclosed yesterday.\npermanent one can be pro-\nMr. Ford's press office\ncessed. Normally this takes\nsaid the license was ob-\nabout 70 days because of the\ntained so Mrs. Ford, who\navalanche of license applica-\nwas campaigning for the\ntions now coming in\nPresident in Madison, Wis.,\nIn special cases the FCC\ncould talk to a convoy of\nissues temporary licenses\nfriends in Grand Rapids,\nand plans soon to issue tem-\nMich.\nporary licenses for all who\nask, when the system is set\nShe doesn't have her own\nup.\nCB radio, the White House\nCommission personnel\nsaid, but under the rules she\nwere informed that Mrs.\ncan use her license over the\nFord's application was com-\nairwaves.\ning over Friday so they\nThe President's wife thus\nwere alerted to watch for it.\nis an official member of a\nHer temporary call letters\ncurrent craze that has swept\nassigned are KUY9532 She\nthe nation the past two\nwill be given a different per-\nyears with millions of\nmanent call signal.\n\"All the News\nThe New York Times.\nLATE CITY EDITION\nU.S. Weather Burden Report (Page ($)\nThat's Fit to Print\"\nVariable cloudiness today; clear\ntonight. Fair and cool tomorrow.\nTemp. Range: 86-65: yesterday: 81-57.\nTemp.-Ham. Indes: low 70's; yesterday: 73.\nVOL. CXIII-No. 38,910.\n© 1006 be The Square, New York Time TIMES\nNEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1964.\nTEN CENTS\nThe New York Times. ENAD\nLATE CITY EDITION\n\"All the News\nU.S. Westing Bureau Report (Page 457 forecasts.\nThat's Fit to Print\"\nCloudy Jien fair today: fair and\ncooler tonight. Fair tomorrow.\nTemp. Range: 70-55; yesterday: 73-59.\nVOL. CXIV No. 38,964.\nc 1984 by The New York Times Company.\nTimes Aquare, New Yerk, W. Y.\nNEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1964.\nToday's Issue contains 96\nPages in Two Sections\nTEN CENTS\nWARREN COMMISSION FINDS OSWALD GUILTY\nAND SAYS ASSASSIN AND RUBY ACTED ALONE;\nREBUKES SECRET SERVICE, ASKS REVAMPING\nF.B.I. IS CRITICIZED\nPANEL UNANIMOUS\nSecurity Steps Taken\nCAMPA\nTheory of Conspiracy\nby Secret Service\nby Left or Right\nHeld Inadequate\nIs Rejected"
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