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The original documents are located in Box 40, folder "Ford, Gerald - Golf" of the Sheila
Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 40 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
22
President's Vacation
What's going on here?
Millions of Americans are out of work; the stock market
is going down again; looks like interest rates may soon be
going up again -- prices on just about everything are;
Vietnam is going down the tube; American power and influence
is on the wane all over the globe; and, the President has
just wound up a nine-day golfing vacation.
He may have to forgive a few people for asking, 'What in
the name of Ben Hogan possessed him to take a long, golfing
vacation in California at this particular time, anyway?'
He, and what are supposed to be the hard working Members
of Congress, just got back a few weeks ago from the Lincoln
and Washington birthdays break. Just before that, the
President and Congress were away from work for very long
Christmas and New Years holidays. And, not long before that,
it was extended time off for election barn-storming around
the country.
Members of the Supreme Court, mind you, are preparing to
take their usual three months off over the summer.
No wonder a reporter traveling around the country hears
so many working people -- those lucky enough to have jobs --
saying, 'Does anybody in Washington really give a damn -- is
anybody really in charge, really leading?'
Now, it may be that this President and the average
congressman are working very effectively. If they are, they
should know they have a long way to go before many working
people will be convinced of it.
Congressmen in their offices Tuesday through Thursday only;
Supreme Court justices taking three months off for the summer;
and a President seen golfing his way down the California coast
in times such as these, certainly don't help.
Dan Rather
CBS Morning News
4/7/75
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
Wally McNamee-Newsweek
AP
On the links and in the mess hall: 'Would it prevent anything from happening in Vietnam if he did not play golf?'
church was preached by the Episcopal
bishop of San Diego, jetted in courtesy
Ford's Unquiet Oasis
of Ford millionaire friend Leon Parma.
Newsmen were kept at a discreet
distance while Ford played golf with the
S
ome of the President's men had
Offering panoramic views of the craggy
likes of Parma, Bob Hope, retired Army
advised Gerald Ford to stay home
Santa Rosa Mountains and the Coachella
football coach Earl (Red) Blaik and mov-
this year. A spring vacation in affluent
Valley, the house is built around an enor-
ie director Frank Capra. The President
Palm Springs, Calif., they warned, would
mous, glass-walled living room with a 20-
suffered through a few mediocre rounds,
sit badlv with a country in the grin of
foot bar and fireplaces at each end. A
whose scores weren't disclosed. but
Fili. 801f
May 5, 1975
3:30 pm
PROPOSED SCHEDULE
THE PRESIDENT'S PARTICIPATION
IN LEE ELDER'S PRO-AM GOLF TOURNAMENT
Lake of the Woods Country Club
Orange County, Virginia
Saturday, May 10, 1975
10:30 am
The President boards Army One on South Lawn.
(EDT)
ARMY ONE DEPARTS South Lawn en route Lake of
the Woods Country Club, Orange County, Virginia.
[Flying time: 30 minutes]
[No time change]
11:00 am
ARMY ONE ARRIVES Lake of the Woods Country Club
helo landing zone (18th Fairway).
The President will be met by members
of his foursome:
Lee Elder
Flip Wilson
Jim Wiechers
and by:
Rose Elder
Bud Nelson, Lake of the Woods Country Club
General Manager
OPEN PRESS COVERAGE
CLOSED ARRIVAL
The President, accompanied by the members of his
foursome, departs helo landing zone en route Pro
Shop Locker Room.
-2-
11:03 am
The President arrives Pro Shop Locker Room and
changes to golf attire.
11:13 am
The President, accompanied by members of his
foursome, departs locker room en route practice
area (18th fairway).
11:16 am
The President arrives practice area.
OPEN PRESS COVERAGE
CROWD SITUATION
11:26 am
The President, accompanied by members of his
foursome, departs practice area en route 1st tee.
11:30 am
The President arrives 1st tee and tees-off.
OPEN PRESS COVERAGE
CROWD SITUATION
NOTE: There will be OPEN PRESS COVERAGE
at the 1st tee and 9th and 18th greens. All other
areas will be PRESS POOL COVERAGE.
NOTE: There are concession stands at the
7th hole and between the 13th and 14th holes.
4:20 pm
The President and members of foursome arrive
18th green.
OPEN PRESS COVERAGE
CROWD SITUATION
4:30 pm
Golf game concludes.
4:31 pm
Rose Elder presents the President with the
Elder Scholarship Trophy on the 18th Green.
NOTE: No remarks are expected nor desired.
OPEN PRESS COVERAGE
4:32 pm
The President, accompanied by members of his
foursome, departs 18th green en route Pro Shop
locker room.
-3-
4:35 pm
The President arrives locker room.
4:55 pm
The President, accompanied by members of his
foursome, departs locker room en route helo landing
zone (1st fairway).
NOTE: The members of the foursome will
bid farewell at the helo.
5:00 pm
The President arrives helo landing zone and boards
Army One.
OPEN PRESS COVERAGE
CLOSED DEPARTURE
ARMY ONE DEPARTS Lake of the Woods Country
Club en route South Lawn.
Flying time: 30 minutes]
5:30 pm
ARMY ONE ARRIVES South Lawn.
Sports
Bullets GO FOR East
SECTION F
SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1975
I 1
Sunny Skies and Lots of Golf
It was a near-perfect spring day and golfers in this vicinity took advantage of
the Washington area's top amateurs, shows in form in tie for
the sunny skies yesterday. President Ford bends to take his ball out of the cup
Roberts Classic at Georgetown Prep. DeLozier with 73, Also, play
third behind University of Maryland star Mike Bausch, Stories
TEXT Poor
in the Lee Elder Celebrity Pro-Am at Lake of the Woods near Fredericksburg,
Va. Ford played with Elder (right), the touring pro from Washington;
was continued yesterday in the Belle Haven Four-Ball
22
Ford Golfs
With Old Pals
Washington, Oct. 5 (UPI)-
President Ford played golf to-
day with three old friends
from his congressional days--
House Republican Leader John
Rhodes and. former Reps. Mel-
vin R. Lairdand John Byrnes,
both of Wisconsin.
Ford, relaxing after long ap-
DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1975
pearances yesterday in Elkins,
W.Va., and Newark, N.J.,
spent some hours on paper-
work in the Oval Office, and
then went by car to the Burn-
ing Tree Country Club in sub-
urban Bethesda, Md.
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The President's Golf Partners
Ford's Outings With Lobbyists and Executives
Raise Questions on Political Ethics and Influence
By PHILIP SHABECOFF
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11-The recent
Moreover, communications between
disclosures about President Ford's golf-
members of the executive branch and
ing outings with lobbyist friends seem
to have been pushed into the back-
those interested in getting the Govern-
ground as a political issue by the on-
ment to act in their behalf are legally
rush of new campaign developments.
frowned upon.
But two problems raised
But even a President must occasionally
by those disclosures re-
News
relax. President Ford most frequently re-
main unresolved. One is
laxes by playing golf or otherwise social-
Analysis
the ethical question of the
izing with old companions, such as Mr.
acceptance of paid hospi-
Whyte.
golf
JERRY FORD'S LIGHTER SIDE
Amid all the problems swirling about him, President
At a Republican rally in South Dakota:
Ford has managed to maintain a sense of humor. It
"I'd like to tell you how I got my dog, Liberty.
shows up in private conversations-where friends say
"My daughter, Susan, called up a highly recommend-
he is relaxed and quick to laugh-as well as in public
ed kennel and said she wanted a golden retriever. The
speeches, which often are sprinkled with jokes, some-
owner said, 'Fine, who will the owner be?' She said it
times directed at himself.
was a surprise.
In an editorial, "The Washington Star-News" praised
"Well, the owner said, he did not sell dogs that way.
Mr. Ford for bringing this sense of humor to his job.
He would have to know the dog was going to a good