Ask the Scholar
Document scope · 1 page
Scholar
Ask about this object, its catalog metadata, its source description, or the page inventory.
For page-specific OCR and visual context, open one of the page chats.
Source Description
Wooden decoys from the Museum of American Folk Art were centerpieces for this dinner.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
46740354
label
State Dinners - 1/30/75 - United Kingdom (3)
core
doc
dtoType
document
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
46740354
sourceUrl
contentType
document
title
State Dinners - 1/30/75 - United Kingdom (3)
description
Wooden decoys from the Museum of American Folk Art were centerpieces for this dinner.
citationUrl
collections
Sheila R. Weidenfeld Files (Ford Administration)
Sheila Weidenfeld's State Visits Files
subjects
Great Britain
President (1974-1977 : Ford). Office of the First Lady. 1974-1977
Clothing and dress
Dinners and dining
iiifBase
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
imageCount
1
hasImages
yes
source
import
hasTranscription
no
Source extras
naId
46740354
coverageEndDate
logicalDate
1975-02-28
month
2
year
1975
coverageStartDate
logicalDate
1975-01-01
month
1
year
1975
levelOfDescription
fileUnit
recordType
description
ocrSource
nara-archive
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
document
url
mediaId
094c000b652ebcd9
ocrText
The original documents are located in Box 30, folder "State Dinners - 1/30/75 - United
Kingdom (3)" of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
Copyright Notice
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of
photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Gerald Ford donated to the United
States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.
Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public
domain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to
remain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid
copyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
Some items in this folder were not digitized because it contains copyrighted
materials. Please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library for access to
these materials.
Washington Star-Hews
Digitized from Box 30 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
porlfolio
People
Amusements
Friday, January 31, 1975
The Arts
Section C K
Some Stiff Upper Lips
At a Glittering Dinner
By Isabelle Shelton
"Whenever peace: was in danger,
and Joy Billington
whenever democracy was threatened,
Star-News Staff Writers
there were always leaders in our two
President Ford
countries to meet whatever chal-
Borrowing a quote from Winston
lenge faced us."
akes his after-
Churchill, President Ford told British
He is confident the same cooperation
Prime Minister Harold Wilson last night
will prevail with the "still newer prob-
linner remarks
that the free world is not "made of sugar
lems which have arisen to threaten the
candy," but will find its way through the
economic life of our own nations and of
challenges it faces today. Churchill told
to a group that
so many other nations of the world."
the world in 1941. Ford recalled, that
The tone of the evening was warm and
"we have not journeyed all this way:
ncluded Danny
across the centuries, across the oceans,
genial as is usually the case when U.S.
and British leaders meet. But there was
across the mountains, across the
Kaye and Vice
a serious undertone, reflected in both
praries because we are made of sugar
Ford's and Wilson's toasts, and in the
candy.
President
The challenges we face today, Ford
demeanor of Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger and several major congres-
told the British leader, serious,
sional leaders who were at the dinner.
Rockefeller on
they are different, and in many ways
Ford and Kissinger both seemed to be
much more complex then those con-
fronted in the Second World War. Yet I
conducting practically a lobbying
his right.
am confident that by working together,
operation with key legislators, appar-
the free and democratic nations can
ently on both aid to South Vietnam and
again triumph. We are still made not of
the administration's energy program.
sugar candy.'
They apparently felt some urgency
WILSON, WHOSE last official visit to
too, about the Turkish aid program,
Washington was five years ago, and who
which will be cut off next Tuesday under
is meeting President Ford this week for
Congressional mandate unless the
the first time, said of U.S.-British rela-
See DINNER, C-2
-Star-News Photographer Walter Oates
tions:
"Hearts and Minds," now playing
sial movie, Frank Getlein calls it
Two Minds On
at the Cerberus 2, is a documentary on
"enormously intelligent, an over-
the Vietnam War that probably will
whelming film," while Jeremiah 0'-
generate as much discussion and as
Leary says it's "a brilliant hatchet
'Hearts and Minds'
many arguments as the war itself.
job, with a technique that
would
Here are two looks at the controver-
make heroes of Attila and the Huns.
41
c 1975 The New York Times Company
- NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1975
I
N GET-ACQUAINTED VISIT: Prime Minister Harold Wilson and The President New York Times/Mike Ford, fol- Lien
wed by their wives, Mary Wilson and Betty Ford, after welcoming ceremonies yester-
ay. Mr. Wilson said, "We could not be meeting at a time of greater moment.' Page 3.
Natil Enquirer 1/1/75 p. 29
Nancy Kissinger's Embarrassing Moment
The moment every well-dressed woman dreads -
dinner for Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson. The
Nancy Kissinger (above left) shows up at an important
only significant difference was that Henry Kissinger's
Washington function wearing the same lavender dress
wife opted for more a exposed shoulders, while Mrs.
as Marylou Whitney (photo right). The dresses were
Whitney - followed by her husband, former Pan
hu fashion designer Oscar de la Renta.
American Airways board chairman Cornelius Vander-
TIMES SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1 1975
OVERSEAS
Mr Wilson proposing a toast at the White House banquet. Facing the camera are (left to right) Mrs Ford ; Mr Callaghan Mrs
Margaret Truman Daniel, daughter of the late President Truman; Mrs Wilson ; and President Ford.
White House
ado ski star, Mr Billy Kidd.
democratic nations can again
I say, interparliamentary asso-
Their presence seemed to
triumph. We are still not made
ciations that strengthen our re-
some of the guests to liven up
of sugar candy."
lationship-the value of them
fetes
the customary and perhaps
Mr Wilson, replying, was at
rests in the fact that when we
jaded political stars, and the
his most smoothly eloquent in
meet, there is so much that just
leaders of diplomacy and
suggesting that one of the great
does notneed to be said between
industry.
strengths of the Anglo-American
us.
Mr Wilson
Mr Ford, a most enthusiastic
connexion was that there is
"It is all taken for granted,
host whose enjoyment of such
SO much that just does not need,
whether it be the assertion of
affairs is palpable, seemed
to be said between us. It is all
From Fred Emery
the principles which we jointly
more at home in introducing
taken for granted." He added
hold, or whether it be the obli-
Washington, Jan 31
the fabulous Miss Sills than in
I cannot recall a time when
gations upon us to work together
White House insiders said it
offering a toast.
our relationship was so close,
towards the solution of our own
was the " most glamorous'
He struck the best bon mot
our understanding. so deep as it
problems and those of the world,
evening the Fords have yet
of the evening, however, in
is at this time
and it saves a great deal of time
arranged, as the state dinner
paraphrasing Winston Church-
The tradition of meetings
because we don't even have to
for Mr Wilson last night pro-
ill's defiant words of 1941.
between the Governments of our
go back to first base and repeat
ne month, until March 1, because of the recent
Bid Thais
discharge from military service,
for absentee and related offenses,
to Nixon
to upgrade their discharge cer-
tificate to a clemency discharge."
Under the clemency program,
Jan, 30 (AP) -
applicants can get pardons by the
mers have printed
President or conditional pardons
mey received from a
after serving a maximum of 24
of former President
months in public service work.
So far Ford has acted on 65
mg the Thai people,
cases. Twenty applicants received
erage annual income
outright pardons and about one-
more than $200 a year,
third of the rest were required
rifice". and donate to
to serve three months of alter-
cause
native service.
ors of the Bangkok Post
White House press secretary
1e Bangkok World said
Ron Nessen said that he knew
e letter was from Rabbi
of no plans to extend the pro-
UPI Telephoto
Korff, trustee of the
gram beyond March 1 if the up-
Prime Minister Wilson joins President Ford for breezy welcoming
nt Nixon Justice Fund,
surge in applications continued.
ceremony on lawn of the White House yesterday.
at they printed it as a
of curiosity rather than
orsement of the appeal.
nd was set up to pay
legal expenses.
Ford Greets Britain' Wilson
letters page carries all
of opinion," said editor
By STAN CARTER
Stanton. He said that
had sent in any contri-
Washington, Jan. 30 (News Bureau)-President Ford, ignoring a runny nose,
gave a ruffles-and-flourishes welcome to British Prime Minister Harold Wilson to-
day and told him that bold action could turn the world economic crisis into "one of
en cervicted, charged, in-
or who are still sought
the great creative moments
ations of the military
in our history."
N.Y.
service act or of the
The President, meeting Wilson
code of military justice."
for the first time, greeted him
Decor Is Mainly Decoys
President also observed
on the South Lawn of the White
Daily
program "was intended
House. It was a sunny but chillq
By ANN WOOD
de a way for many per-
day, with a temperature of about
Washington, Jan. 30 (News Bureau)-Presi-
News
10 received an undesirable
40 degrees, and windy, Both Ford
and Wilson wore business suits,
dent and Mrs. Ford gave a very special party for
without topcoats.
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson tonight,
1/31/75
See Guhl
Ford told Wilson that the
complete with a decor of bird-hunting decoys.
United States and Britain-"a
The guest list included movie stars Cary Grant, Kirk
staunch ally and steadfast friend"
Douglas, Warren Beatty and Danny Kave. Soprano Beverly
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
FROM: ANNE SWANSON
News Summary
FYI
EYE VIEW
Welcome wagon for the Wilsons
WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1975
Harold Wilson and Gerald Ford
Happy and Nelson Rockefeller
Babe and Bill Paley; Beverly Sills
Ann Wilson and Betty Ford; Nancy and Henry Kissinger; Cornelius and Marylou Whitney; Nancy Kissinger's new hairdo; Babe Paley at the President's table, with the vice-president
Photos by Guy De Lort
Van Cliburn and Nancy Hanks; Warren Beatty and Michelle Phillips; Margaret and Clifton Daniels; Anne and Elliot Richardson; Sylvia and Danny Kaye
"V
ariety. That's what I want to bring here," said Betty Ford as she
formal than it was in the Johnson days." Party lines however, didn't
chatted quietly with some of the non-political celebrities during a
dampen the liberal Democrat's enthusiasm when he heard Michelle had_
representatives to flame-retar-
dant pajamas, and said he would
bring that point up to all the com-
See DEBATE, page 20
Babe Paley
0.0
TODAY
A Babe in
Talks held in dress dispute
the White House
- Page 10
W
ASHINGTON - Harold and Mary
Summer in New York: The
Wilson left the party early because
the Prime Minister was tired. Nancy
hot looks
Kissinger and Marylou Whitney were
HOSIERY
-Pages4&5
SWIMWEAR
wearing the same dress. Warren Beatty
said the White House was a lot less for-
INFANTSWEAR
mal these days. And Babe Paley was
her beautiful usual self in black velvet.
The Broadway fills two top
They all dined at the White House, and
SPORTSWEAR SLEEPWEAR
for more on that dinner, see Eye View,
posts
page 16.
LE KNIT LE FIT
- Page 10
LE-ROI
Photo by Guy De Lort
200 Madison Ave NY NY 10016
News Summary 11
Fes.5,75 75
Northeast Papers
Newsday, "Ford's Guns-and Margarine Budget. " President
Ford would boost the defense budget by more than $9 billion
to a peacetime record of $94 billion. In effect, he is asking
Congress to indemnify the Pentagon against inflation while
asking the aged, poor and the unemployed to practice "honest
self-denial." A guns-and-margarine budget, so to speak. Congress
is not likely to go along --- nor should it. The Ford budget
reflected the President's long-held desire to open an ideological
dialogue over the long-term costs and benefits of programs
designed to aid the aged, sick and unemployed. But that dialogue
should wait until far fewer Americans need federal help.
----
Buffalo Evening News, "Don't Neglect Health Insurance."
Problems concerning energy and the economy are very important,
but they should not be allowed to shoulder aside sympathetic
consideration of national health insurance in Washington this year.
---
FORD-ADMINISTRATION
Northeast Papers
Susan Watters, Women's Wear Daily, Washington: "Variety.
That's what I want to bring here, said Betty Ford as she
chatted quietly with some of the non-political celebrities
during a star-studded state dinner in Washington for England's
Prime Minister, Harold Wilson. Wearing a flawing blue chiffon
dress, designed especially for the night by Alber Capraro,
Betty floated into the grand foyer of the White House to greet
a kaleidoscope of writers, socialites, journalists and Hollywood
showstoppers --- a far cry from the usual stuffy GOP White House.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS - DEFENSE
Northeast Papers
Manchester Union Leader, "Interesting ice System."
The Russians could have helped us before and they could help us
now with oil supplies, but they choose not to interfere
with the robber operations of the Arab states which the Russians
are instead encouraging and are even supporting.