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The original documents are located in Box 39, folder "Ford, Betty - Nixon, Richard" of
the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 39 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
MRS. FORD ON NIXON
Re: "Final Days" New book by Woodward &
Bernstein
"I really feel very badly to think that things
that are past and are gone are coming out in
a book that is " "I believe it will be
considered fictional."
" Feel a great deal of sympathy for Pat Nixon,"
Continued on back
Rusty - -
Plo pull
everything me
"The Final Days"
+ make a
Nixon file
FORD LIBRARY
under Mrs. Ford
C-2
The Washington Star
Tuesday,
March 30, 1976
PC
Designers Honor Betty Ford
perio
Eleni on Fashion: Cited for Her Support of the Industry
rece
vers
his
NEW YORK- - Mrs. Gerald R. Ford said yesterday,
nated at the school). Mrs. Ford was aware that such
dra
'Nixon's Final Days," the new Robert Woodward and
fashion greats as the late Norman Norell, Adrian and
"J.
Carl Bernstein book, "will be considered fiction" in
Clare McCardle, among many others, had attended
An
days to come. In a brief question and answer session
the school that she said, "deserves its top, top reputa-
Pa
before being presented with the 1976 Parsons Award
tion."
th
for her and support of the Americen fash
She always has been anthuciastic about American
N024
RW
LAST DAYS
WASHINGTON (AP) -- FIRST LADY BETTY FORD SAYS SHE BELIEVES A
CONTROVERSIAL NEW BOOK ON RICHARD M. NIXON'S LAST DAYS IN THE WHITE
HOUSE WILL EVENTUALLY BE REGARDED AS FICTION, NOT FACT.
MRS. FORD ALSO SAID PORTIONS OF ''THE FINAL DAYS, BY WASHINGTON
POST REPORTERS BOB WOODWARD AND CARL BERNSTEIN, 'COULD HAVE BEEN
OMITTED.''
"I HAVE A GREAT DEAL OF SYMPATHY NOT ONLY FOR MRS. NIXON BUI FOR
THE WHOLE FAMILY," MRS. FORD COMMENTED DURING AN APPEARANCE IN NEW
YORK MONDAY. "I FEEL BADLY THAT THINGS THAT ARE IN THE PAST AND GONE
ARE STILL COMING OUT.''
THE BOOK CLAIMS THAT BOTH NIXON AND HIS WIFE DRANK HEAVILY DURING
THE WATERGATE SCANDAL THAT LED TO NIXON'S RESIGNATION IN AUGUST 1974.
IT ALSO DEPICTS A DISTRAUGHT, SUICIDAL NIXON ON THE EVE OF HIS
DEPARTURE WHO WEPT DURING A MEETING WITH SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY A.
KISSINGER AND POUNDED THE CARPET AS HE ASKED, WHAT HAVE I DONE? WHAT
HAS HAPPENED?"
KISSINGER GAVE THE BOOK POOR REVIEWS, SAYING MONDAY THAT EXCERPTS HE
HAS SEEN FROM THE BOOK WERE DISTORTED AND INSENSITIVE.
03-30-76 10:40EST
R. FORD LIBRARY
THE WASHINGTON POST
B2
Tuesday, March 30, 1976
Personalities
Cicely Tyson, top
left, took a 10-
The Richard Nixons, of San Cle-
day break from
mente, Calif., spent their Saturday
night dining with the James Roose-
filming "The Blue
of Corona del Mon- Celif - -
Carter's
Feeling the
Betty on The Book
Southern
SHE DOESN'T HEM & HAW
Hospitality
AT PARSONS AWARD GALA
By CLYDE HABERMAN
By ANNA QUINDLEN
celving her prize- miniature sterling sil-
N.Y. Post Correspondent
The program read like a list of the finest
ver replica of the Parsons table-the First
ROANOKE, Va. Jim
labels Seventh Avenue has to offer: Donald
Lady fielded questions about excerpts from
Tucker, a librarian for the
Brooks, Albert Capraro, Kasper, Calvin
their new book, which portrays former
county, stood on the corner
Klein, Shannon Rodgers, Chester Weinberg,
President Nixon as a distraught and drink-
of Campbell Av. and Second
Betty Ford-
ing heavily during his last months In office.
St. here waiting for Jimmy
"T needly feel vome badly to think that