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of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Vi
Cos Angeles Times
IEW
PART IV
TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1976
BETTY FORD'S MAIL
The Stamp
of a Lady
BY DOROTHY McCARDLE
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON-When First Lady Betty Ford sits
down after dinner at the White House for a quiet time
with her husband, she always has a pile of unanswered
mail in her lap.
JANUARY 1475
THE GH POLL
1
The Ten Most
Pat
Admired Women
Nixon
Pat Nixon, possibly because of how she faced
the ordeal of her husband's resignation,
2
again is the number one choice, and
Betty Ford makes the list for the first time
Despite the Watergate scandal and her husband's resignation as President-
Golda
Meir
and perhaps even to some extent because of these happenings-Pat Nixon
is the winner in the sixth annual Good Housekeeping Most Admired Women
Poll. Courage and grace under pressure have always been qualities that most
strongly stirred the admiration of this magazine's readers. And from their
comments, panelists indicate that Pat Nixon has displayed these virtues to an
uncommon degree. One reader stated, "I would not have included her last year,
but I do now because of poise in difficult and unsympathetic circumstances."
Julie Nixon Eisenhower also received high marks for the way she responded
to events swirling around her family. She rose from tenth place last year to
fourth this year. "I probably wouldn't have included her before but now
3
I admire her carriage and patience during Watergate," one reader asserted,
while others stressed her unshakable loyalty to her father.
The third beneficiary of the year's traumatic events was Betty Ford, the
new First Lady and a newcomer to the Most Admired list. She placed seventh
in the balloting, which was conducted during the early weeks of her husband's
Presidency and before her surgery for breast cancer. Even so, late returns
Rose
raised her from eighth to seventh position and it seems entirely likely she
Kennedy
would have continued to gain in recognition and perhaps would have moved
into one of the top spots if the balloting had occurred a few weeks later.
Said one reader, "Until recently I had not known of the fine human qualities
in Betty Ford, such as the way she stands behind her husband and adapts
to a new life-style not entirely to her liking."
4
Second place in this year's voting goes to Golda Meir, up from fourth last
January. Rose Kennedy, the indomitable mother of the Kennedy tribe, con-
tinues in third place and maintains her unique distinction of appearing in the
top five since the inception of this poll. Shirley Temple Black ranks fifth,
one notch ahead of last season. Patricia Neal, seventh a year ago, is now
sixth. Princess Grace remains eighth. Ethel Kennedy, who was thirteenth in
the previous vote, rises to ninth and Mamie Eisenhower drops from second
to tenth.
Two of the top ten last year dropped in this year's polling-Lady Bird
Julie
Johnson now ranks fifteenth and Dr. Joyce Brothers twelfth. Among those who
Nixon
were close to the winners are Barbara Walters, eleventh; Katharine Hepburn,
Eisenhower
thirteenth; and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, fourteenth.
The GH Poll asks readers of this magazine to rank the ten women now
alive in any part of the world in the order of their regard. A nominating slate,
5
drawn up by employees of GH and its sister magazines, is submitted by mail
to 1,500 GH subscribers who vote their choices and offer the reasons for
their decisions.
Twenty-one of those listed were nominated for the first time. Not content
with the slate submitted, panelists cast a scattering of write-in votes for the
following, among others: Ruth Graham (Mrs. Billy Graham), Anne Morrow
All photos this page: Wide World
Shirley
Lindbergh, Rosalind Russell, Martha Mitchell, Happy Rockefeller, Congress-
Temple
continued on page 23
Black
20
Twin
Newsmakers
To Golda, Betty, Pat-With Admiration
-Topping the list of the women "most admired" by
Americans in 1974 was Golda Meir, the former Israeli
friends, family. food and football, recently elected Sen. 000 by doing it myself."
Jake Garn (R-Utah) was rolling toward the nation's capi-
By Jennings Parrott
LA Times 1/2/75 p2
A-2
The Washington Star Tuesday, November 11, 1975
Names/Faces
A Solid Asset
Betty Ford is one of the most popular first ladies,
solid asset" to her husband, the Harris poll has report-
ed. The polling organization said Mrs. Ford drew her
strongest support from persons 30 years of age or
under and the least from persons 50 or over.
John McKelway
Glash Star 11/19/75
Does the Jean Generation' Go for Jerry?
Betty Ford's Openness May Convince Youth to Vote for her Husband, a Congresswoman Thinks
By Betty Beale
But it's a well-known fact that young people don't
bands. When the sixsome had devoured their rack of
Washington Star Staff Writer
vote.
lamb marinated in soy sauce and five, Chinese spices,
If a GOP representative from the predominantly
"I know," said Rep. Heckler. "The president's com-
they saw a birthday cake with appropriate singing
pura Lrel
Democratic state of Massachusetts knows what she's
mittee should send Jack Ford to the university areas in
brought to the young woman who was sitting with her
THE WASHINGTON POST
B12
Wednesday, Nov. 12,1975
SCENE/REVIEW
Nixon's Future? No Comment (aries)
Former President Richard
"Marine Corps' 200th birthday:
seemed full of energy as she
her statement that she
MI Nixon has denied reports
"Even though I was a Navy
cut the ribbon for the opening
he has plans to become a radio
"wouldn't be surprised? if
officer, I was proud to have
of the one-day international
"That's a nice way to start
daughter Susan had an affair.
or television commentator
served with the Marine Corps
fair of the Young Women's
the week, said Betty Ford
Television and radio
Christian Association at the
Another First Lady also has
in the Pacific, said Nixon,
when son Jack pointed out that
spoken up about how she
commentaries would not be who surprised a crowd of
Sheraton Park Hotel.
a Louis Harris poll showed the
fortunate to be able to atone for the offenses in a
Editorial:
Good Luck to the World
previous lifetime through his misery in this one.
Eighty-four percent of the American people be-
lieve they have been lucky-a fact that appears to
contradict the kind of national mood reflected in
the communications media. The impression one
T
has in looking at newscasts or reading front pages
he most original use of the pub-
is that the nation is apprehensive, jumpy, unsure
lic opinion polling device we have seen in a long
of itself. But despair and belief in luck don't go
time has just been completed by The Gallup Or-
together.
ganization, Inc., of Princeton, N.J. More than
If asked to define luck, the Americans who re-
10,000 people on four continents were interviewed
sponded to the poll- would probably say, simply,
in their own languages. The questions were not
that it is something good that happens by surprise.
political but philosophical and personal. The full
Yet most philosophers and logicians have believed
results of the poll,
to definite factors,
preview, will be r
hallow minds, said
Perhaps the mc
ction between hard
the poll is whet
rties and fifties this
speaking, feel the
tist-scholar, E. De-
over the years. Her
nore about finding
time. He believed
fession, but he also
cologists were con-
Scandinavian natior
rs. I remember his
USA
Canada
moods, that "good
Great Britain
pail handy when it
West Germany
matter of being so
Africa
almost instinctively
India
Far East as a whole
at the right time."
*Don't Know/No Ansv
pleased by the re-
Gallup's question
What jumps ou
things had a better
that, despite the 1
society than in one
ness, joblessness,
ial for self-govern-
people feel they 1
ociety in which peo-
lucky. The uncert:
f the economic and
not precluded an
ir ancestors were
in itself is a pow
a kulak," says Pavel
tary on the huma
Souls. In that one
challenges. Basic
or not, Gogol fore-
titudes of human
'iolent overthrow is
They are confront
no other way to
habit of war, to ac
condition of their
poll tell us that hu-
tions beyond the I
believe more in im-
the greatest signit
ized forecasts. The
on this earth beli
ortant than the way
better even if hist
derive their energy
the wrong way.
bles, not from their
Luck, of course
ribed this phenom-
ent places. An In
he said that human
luck would not be
excited by affirma-
Scandinavian's. T
tives are readily ex-
income of less tha
S, by ideas. Perhaps
that materialistic
: answers he did. It
minds of the India
es quickly of numer-
in life. Being luck
p when summoned
defined by its lim
ties, would apply
e President of the
pectations. An U
ve luck on his side
regard his low stat
of armaments and
therefore beyond human intervention. When he
inflation may not be as important as respect for
says he has been lucky, he may mean that he is
the mystery and power of the human spirit. -N.C.
4
SR 6 26 76
The Washington Post
STYLE
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1975
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also supports Mrs. Ford when she said
firm, the pattern of backing she receives
1976 election. By the same token, she
life, and surely must De judged a solid
To test the reception given Mrs. Ford
"if her daughter were having an affair,
is highly significant. Most solidly behind
finds her least support among those who
asset to her husband in the White House.
on her controversial statements, the
the first lady are people who live on the
are apt to back the resident, the more
C1975, Chicago Tribune
.
FORT LAUDERDALE NEWS
Poll Shows She's Popular
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T.T. GORE
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F.P. PETTIJOHN
President
Editer, Publisher
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Betty Big Plus For Ford
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By LOUIS HARRIS
among people between 30 and 50, a 64-25 percent
On her favoring "passage of the Equal F
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Chicago Tribune-New York Syndicate
majority agrees. However, among people 50 and
Amendment on women's rights," Mrs. F
WHATEVER PRESIDENT FORD'S problems
over, only a narrow, 44-42 per cent plurality
stand meets with the agreement of a substa
Editorial Page Ten
with the public, Betty Ford has now become one of
agrees.
70-15 per cent majority. Women agree with the
the most popular wives of a President to occupy
lady on the E.R.A. by 73-15 per cent, compare
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1975
the White House.
By 64-23 per cent, a sizable majority Iso
68-15 per cent majority of men who do.
On the controversial statements made by Mrs.
supports Mrs. Ford when she said "if her daughter
Although public support for Mrs. Ford's I
were having an affair, she would want to know if
Ford recently, the a public leaves no doubt that it
statements, is decisive and firm, the patte
the voung man were nice or not Again
beeking, che, in the
DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1975
p. 5
Should Betty Ford Have Aired Her
Views on Premarital Sex, Pot and
Abortion?
YES
60%
NO
32%
DON'T KNOW
8%
Poll: Keep Speaking Out, Betty
Betty Ford has won the support of New Yorkers in publicly expressing her
views on premarital sex, pot smoking and abortion, according to The Daily News
Opinion Poll.
Asked whether they thought
DAILY@NEWS
told the interviewer that it
the first lady should have
"wasn't fitting" for Mrs. Ford to
spoken out on such subjects, re-
speak out. But two New Jersey
gardless of whether they agreed
OPINION POLL
housewives under 35 said "she's
with her views, 60% of the poll
honest" and "she spoke the
respondents replied "yes," 32%
truth."
said "по" and 8%- had no opin-
Ford's opinions on these subjects
had hunt the President's election
A. young white-collar worker
The Washington Post
STYLE
People / Entertainment / Leisure
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1975
B9
Whatever President Ford's problems
she would want to know If the young man
Harris Survey asked a cross-section of
east and west coasts, residents of big
conservative, small-town and rural
with the public, Betty Ford has now
were nice or not." Again, the division
1,519 adults nationwide:
cities and the suburbs, young people
residents, and the elderly
Votes for
become one of the most popular wives of
between the young and old is decisive. A
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under 30, those who have had some
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To test the reception given Mrs. Ford
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finds her least support among those who
asset to her husband in the White House.
"if her daughter were having an affair,
on her controversial statements, the
the first lady are people who live on the
are apt to back the President, the more
C197 Chicago Tribune
Newsmakers
Las ary Time 11/11/75
First Lady Outspoken-and Listened to
-Betty Ford, perhaps the most outspoken First Lady
the nation has had, is also one of the most popular and is
"a solid asset" to her husband, the Harris Poll reported. In
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The Washington Star Wednesday, December 17, 1975
Names/Faces
The Spirit of Christmas
Christmas this year, for some 300,000 persons, will
be holly, candles, bright baubles and a lovely letter
from Cornelia Wallace. Her holiday greetings, ma-
chine written on blue stationery, suggest that contri-
butions would mean the
governor would have a
most happy Christmas sea-
son. "I think," she writes,
"the most wonderful gift
for my husband would be to
know he will have the
money he needs for a suc-
cessful presidential cam-
paign in 1976." Cornelia
points out in her note that
George will use "a lot of
television" in the months
ahead and adds this
thought: "If only this heavy
financial burden could be
eased by Christmas,
George would have a won-
derful relaxing and worry-
free holiday. I don't want to suggest what amount you
should send as a gift. Let your heart decide in this
most joyous of seasons."
Filled With Significance
Good Housekeeping, the magazine, has conducted a
poll. It says that Betty Ford has succeeded Pat Nixon
as the most admired women and piled up a 2-to-1 lead
over Pat among balloters under 35. Pat, however, held
a comfortable lead over Betty among over-35 readers
of the magazine who had little to do but take part in a
poll. Two newcomers to the list were Anne Morrow
Lindbergh and Beverly Sills.
12/17/75
THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1
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DOWIUS 3 & cason.
Betty Ford Outpolls
President in Michigan
DETROIT (UPI) - If Gerald and
Betty Ford ran against each other in
Michigan on the basis of job per-
formance the President would finish
a distant second, according to a De-
troit News poll reported yesterday.
In a Market Opinion Research sur-
vey of 500 adults last month, Mrs.
Ford got 58 percent approval for the
way she handled her official duties.
Ford's total was 46 percent. She beat
him 60 percent to/42 percent among
women.
3
Presidency
Harris Survey
Betty Ford's popularity still rising
By Louis Harris
Mrs. Ford is not nearly as popular
among voters in the deep South, con-
ONE OF GERALD FORD'S strongest
servatives, and rural dwellers. Clearly,
assets in his quest for the Republican
she has much more appeal among the
nomination is the continuing deep re-
more independent segments of the elec-
spect and admiration the American peo-
torate than she does among the tradi-
memo
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WORLD ALMANAC CHOSES
AMERICA'S 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN
New York--The World Almanac today announced its list of America's
25 most influential women. This list was selected by a panel of news-
paper editors, social commentators, university presidents and writers.
Among the women chosen who were also on last year's list are
Charlotte Curtis, Coretta King, Ella Grasso, Margaret Mead and Barbara
Walters. Absent this year are Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Virginia
Johnson Masters and Mary Calderone. This complete list and names of
the judges are attached.
There were six new names on this year's list: Anne Armstrong,
Lady Bird Johnson, Mary Wells Lawrence, Mary McGrory, Helen Thomas and
Abigail Van Buren.
The list is remarkable for the number of women in journalism and
politics. Of the 25 women named, nine are journalists and six others
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25 WOMEN/add one
are in elective or appointed political positions.
To determine America's most influential women, The World Almanac
polled a panel of 13 women and men. Each member of the panel selected
25 names from a list of more than 200 prominent women supplied by
The World Almanac. Panelists were also invited to write in their own
choices.
Notably lacking from the list are women in business -- board
members and directors of banks and corporations. Mary Wells Lawrence
is the one exception.
There are, moreover, no women from the physical sciences and only
one from the entertainment field - Joan Ganz Cooney.
The list of America's most influential women was inaugurated
last year in connection with the International Women's Year. It,
along with a brief biography on each of the women, and the list of
judges will be in The 1977 World Almanac & Book of Facts.
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AMERICA'S 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN
Bella Abzug - Democratic Congresswoman from New York
Anne Armstrong - U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain
Helen Gurley Brown - editor of Cosmopolitan
Shirley Chisholm - Democratic Congresswoman from New York
Joan Ganz Cooney - head of the Children's Television Workshop
Charlotte Curtis - Op-Ed page editor of The New York Times
Betty Ford - First Lady
Betty Friedan - feminist and author
Katherine Graham - publisher of The Washington Post
Ella Grasso - Democratic Governor of Connecticut
Nancy Hanks - chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and
National Council for the Arts
Lenore Hershey - editor of the Ladies' Home Journal
Carla Anderson Hills - secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Lady Bird Johnson - former First Lady
Barbara Jordan - Democratic Congresswoman from Texas
Billie Jean King - tennis star
Coretta King - civil rights leader
Mary Wells Lawrence - chairman of the board of Wells, Rich, Greene
Margaret Mead - anthropologist
Mary McGrory - nationally-syndicated political columnist
Sylvia Porter - financial and consumer columnist
Gloria Steinem - feminist and author
Helen Thomas - White House Correspondent for UPI
Abigail Van Buren - personal advice columnist
PANEL OF JUDGES
The panelists which determined this year's list include:
Paul Conroy, editor, San Jose Mercury; Walter Friedenberg, editor,
Cincinnati Post; Michael Grehl, editor, Memphis Commercial-Appeal;
Matina Horner, president, Radcliffe College; Vernon Jordan, executive
director, National Urban League; Clayton Kirkpatrick, editor, Chicago
Tribune; Pia Lindstrom, NBC news correspondent; Eleanor Holmes Norton,
New York City Human Rights Commissioner; Jane O'Reilly, syndicated
columnist, Washington Star; Helen Thomas, UPI White House Bureau Chief;
Hana Umlauf, associate editor, The World Almanac; Jacqueline Wexler,
president, Hunter College; Otto Zausmer, associate editor, Boston Globe
# # #
Europe May Not Be Ready for This
Burnishing the old statesman image deemed essen-
tial for a presidential candidate, Alabama Gov.
George Wallace will embark Oct. 11 on what an aide
described as a "good-will, fact-finding, industry-
seeking" tour of five or six European nations. Con-
spicuously not on the itinerary are the Scandinavian
countries, where the reservoir of good-will for Wallace
was depleted recently when he lectured Danish and
Norwegian newsmen on their nations' ingratitude for
American participation in World War II. Wallace,
accompanied by his wife, Cornelia, will stop over in
London, Edinburgh, Brussels, Rome, Bonn, West Ber-
lin and Paris.
(Another political leader announced upcoming
travel plans. Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro will
visit Mexico next year for the first time since he left
Mexico in the yacht Granma in 1959 to launch his
revolution.)
Turn the Picture to the Wall
Republican National
Chairwoman Mary Louise
Smith said in Cleveland she
foresees no role for ex-
president Richard M. Nixon
at next year's GOP conven-
tion. His picture probably
won't even be on display,
she said. Speaking at a
women's club meeting,
Smith predicted that Ron-
ald Reagan will run for the
Republican presidential
nomination, but that Presi-
dent Ford will win handily.
New Hampshire Wasn't Bad Enough
It's the Year of the Woman, all right. First Lady
Betty Ford just beat her husband in a Harris "job rat-
ing" poll. The survey of 1,497 adults showed that 50
percent give Mrs. Ford a favorable rating, while only
36 percent rate her unfavorably. (How he got 50 per-
cent of 1,497 persons, Harris didn't say.) The Presi-
dent's job rating improved slightly over August. He
rose from 38 percent approving to 41, while the per-
centage of those disapproving of his performance
dropped from 60 to 56. The poll was taken after Mrs.
Ford's bombshell statements about love and mar-
riage, but apparently before Liberty produced her lit-
ter under the First Lady's supervision.
David Broaten
UP-055
(POLITICS)
LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY KISSINGER SHOULD
STAY OUT OF CALIFORNIA CAMPAIGNING BUT BETTY FORD IS WELCOME
PRESIDENT FORD'S CALIFORNIA CAMPAIGN CO-CHAIRMEN SAID YESTERDAY.
STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL EVELLE YOUNGER SAID KISSINGER SHOULD STICK
TO PEACE NEGOTIATIONS AND NOT TRY TO HELP FORD BEAT RONALD REAGAN IN
THE CALIFORNIA GOP PRIMARY,
YOUNGER SUGGESTED IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR FORD IF KISSINGER STUCK
TO DIPLOMACY, BECAUSE HE WAS NOT NEEDED AND WOULD NOT BE WELCOME AS A
CAMPAIGNER IN CALIFORNIA.
BUT HE INDICATED HE WOULD BE PLEASED IF BETTY FORD CHOOSES TO
CAMPAIGN IN CALIFORNIA.
"IF SHE DECIDES TO CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESIDENT, I'M SURE WE'D
WELCOME HER WITH OPEN ARMS," YOUNGER SAID.
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-0-
NEW YORK (UPI) -- BETTY FORD'S STATEMENTS ON PREMARITAL SEX AND
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN HAVE EARNED HER THE SUPPORT OF THOSE SEGMENTS
OF THE PUBLIC LEAST LIKELY TO BACK HER HUSBAND IN THE 1976 ELECTION,
THE LATEST HARRIS SURVEY INDICATES.
POLLSTER LOUIS HARRIS SAID YESTERDAY MRS. FORD HAS THE LEAST
SUPPORT FROM AMONG THOSE WHO MOST APT TO BACK THE PRESIDENT -- THE
MORE CONSERVATIVE, SMALL TOWN AND RURAL RESIDENTS AND THE ELDERLY.
"BUT MRS. FORD'S OUTSPOKEN STATEMENTS HAVE WON SUPPORT FROM THOSE
YOUNGER AND MORE INDEPENDENT ELEMENTS IN THE ELECTORATE, WHO ARE
INDISPENSABLE TO HER HUSBAND IN A CONTEST FOR THE WHITE HOUSE NEXT
FALL," HE ADDED. "IN SHORT, BETTY FORD HAS A WIDE AND DEEP FOLLOWING
IN THE MAINSTREAM OF AMERICAN LIFE AND SURELY MUST BE JUDGED A SOLID
ASSET TO HER HUSBAND IN THE WHITE HOUSE."
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THE GH POLL
The Ten Most
Admired Women
In spite of the many controversial statements First Lady Betty Ford made
last year, GH readers voted her the most admired woman in the world. Pat
Nixon, first choice for the past three years, ranked a very close second. Here
are all the results of what has become the most talked-about poll in America
Betty
Pat
Rose
Shirley Temple
Julie Nixon
Ford
Nixon
Kennedy
Black
Eisenhower
Photos 1, 2, 5: Wide World; 3, 4: UPI.
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2
3
4
5
Citing honesty-a quality that has
Ambassador
Shirley
Temple
to be the quality most admired by
rarely been mentioned in the six
Black ranked fourth and Julie Nixon
those GH subscribers who were
previous Good Housekeeping Most
Eisenhower fifth, reversing their po-
asked in a mail ballot to select their
Admired Women Polls, readers
sitions of a year ago. In sixth, sev-
top five choices from a slate of 53
voted First Lady Betty Ford their
enth and eighth spots were three
candidates. The nominating slate in-
number-one choice this year. Mrs.
favorites of recent seasons: actress
cluded last year's ten winners, plus
Ford's outspoken views on premari-
Patricia Neal, Princess Grace of
additional names submitted by em-
tal sex and other intimate topics
Monaco and Mamie Eisenhower. In
ployees of GH and its company, plus
drew her much attention last year
ninth and tenth were two newcomers
any names the readers wanted to
and many women obviously appreci-
to the list, writer Anne Morrow
write in on the ballot.
ated her candor. As one voter stated,
Lindbergh, widow of the "Lone
Casting a write-in vote for "Mrs.
"I may not agree with her views on
Eagle," and opera singer Beverly
Average American Housewife," one
sex and abortion, but I respect her
Sills.
reader stated, "I like her ability to
for speaking openly and honestly."
In one of the most dramatic drops
continue in spite of adversity."
Mrs. Ford replaced former First
in the history of the GH Poll, for-
"Happy Rockefeller moved into
Lady Pat Nixon who had held the
mer Premier Golda Meir of Israel
my top five because of her courage
top spot for three years. Despite the
went from second to eleventh. TV
in overcoming breast cancer," said
scandal that forced her husband out
star Carol Burnett came in twelfth.
one subscriber.
of office, Mrs. Nixon managed to
Ethel Kennedy, widow of Senator
"I admire their personal courage
run a very close second to Mrs.
Robert Kennedy, slipped from ninth
and their commitment to things out-
Ford. Rose Kennedy, the gallant,
to thirteenth and Lady Bird Johnson
side themselves," replied a reader
85-year-old matriarch of the Ken-
and Dr. Joyce Brothers completed
who chose Rose Kennedy, Dr. Bro-
nedy clan, placed third, as she has
the leading 15.
thers, Mrs. Black, Betty Friedan and
in the past three years.
As in the past, courage continues
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