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The original documents are located in Box 31, folder "State Dinners - 2/5/75 - Pakistan
(3)" of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Washington Star-News
Sunday, February 16, 1975
portfollo
Betty Beale
Ambassadors Will 'Bring the World to t
A party coup pulled off by one of Washington's
shocking a
top hosts will take place this week when the gover-
her quiet a
nors meet here. Two dinners are being tossed in
that one is
honor of the state executives and their wives. The
among gue
one on Thursday night will be given by the Presi-
one of thos
dent and First Lady at the White House as is
Kennerl
customary.
dice chose
portfolio
rld to the Governors' During Meeting
shocking about it. For the most part she was giving
She was in California when the Government
her quiet attention to Billy Taylor's music. It's just
Services Administration sold for only $10,000 a dia-
that one isn't used to seeing a display of affection
mond "this big," she indicated, covering part of
among guests seated in the upright gold chairs at
her mammoth green tourmaline that looks like an
one of those formal state functions.
emerald and is set in diamonds. A diamond that size
12 tt
shout 40.
42
DAILY NEWS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1975
My dinner with Jerry and Betty and all
By PAUL HEALY Washington Bureau
President and Mrs. Ford have
brought their own style of entertaining
to the White House. To sample that
style, Paul Healy of the News Washing-
ton Bureau slipped into his tuxedo and
this week attended a Ford party. His
report:
The telephone rang one day
last week and a pleasant female
identified. herself and said
C-2
Washington Star-News
Sunday, February 9, 1975
porti
Betty Beale
White House Party Giving Is
The Gerald Fords' parties are having such a so-
cial impact that national magazines are clamoring
for stories on them. Shades of the Kennedy years.
Vogue magazine was so intrigued with the
glamorous guest lists and the originality of the
table decorations it covered the dinner for British
Prime Minister Wilson and will come out in April
with the first article it has ever done on a White
House state dinner. House and Garden is doing one
article on the dinner Wednesday for Pakistan
Prime Minister Bhutto and will do another on the
table.
Like Putting a Cake Together'
economy, his wife Sally is studying to become a
volunteer docent at the Hirshhorn Museum. But
don't be misled by the word "volunteer" at the
city's newest museum. By the time this wife from
the White House inner circle "graduates" in seven
weeks she will be what the Hirshhorn calls a
"professional volunteer."
To earn the privilege of working for no pay this is
what Sally Seidman had to do or is doing: She had
to be interviewed before she was allowed to take the
training course. She had to take a three-hours-a-
week ant .
Dancing Was
The Game
Ford Dinner
For Ali Bhutto
By Isabelle Shelton
Star-News Staff Writer
ncing was once again in the forefront at the
House at last night's State Dinnner honoring
Minister All Bhutto of Pakistah:
esident Ford and his wife remained at the party;
ing until 1 a m and even after they retired un-
Henry the K
and some bumps
10
in the night
EYE® VIEW
Some bumps in the night
я
By SUSAN WATTERS
Polly Bergen perspired on -
WASHINGTON (FNS)
night, but Henry Kissinger did
President Ford Wednesday
a little sweating of his own.,
"I sweat on the Presi-
dent," marveled Ms. Bergen,
dance with Ford.
after her third consecutive
dent of the University of Ala-
"I plan to become presi-
bama, facetiously said Kissi-
nger. "After all, you know I
always wanted to be president
See EYE VIEW, page 10
WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1975
B-026
(BUCHWALD DANCES AT THE WHITE HOUSE)
TO A SEQUEL TO "I NEVER DANCED AT THE WHITE
WASHINGTON WRITE (UPI) HUMOR COLUMNIST ART BUCHWALD IS GOING TO HAVE
FIRST anoring LADY PAKISTANI PRIME MINISTER ZULFIKAR ALI BHUTTO, AND NIGHT TWIRLED
BUCHWALD WAS A GUEST AT A WHITE HOUSE DINNER WEDNESDAY HOUSE."
STRUCK BETTY FORD AROUND THE DANCE. FLOOR WHEN THE MARINE HE BAND
UP "THEY'LL NEVER BELIEVE ME."
YEARS ESPECIALLY WELCOME AT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR
DANCED HAD NOT BEEN THE WHITE HOUSE," WAS ALL. SMILES WHEN HE ENTERED. BOOK "I BUCHWALD NEVER
THE PUDGY, AT CIGAR-SMOKING SATIRIST AND. AUTHOR OF THE
WELL WITH -- PARTICULARLY DURING THE NIXON ERA WHEN HIS JIBES A NUMBER DID NOT OF SIT
THE ADMINISTRATION.
BUT SMPIUOUS HE ADDED "SUPREME OF PHEASANT" DINNER HASN"I INFLUENCED THAT THE
BUCHWALD, INTERVIEWED BY FELLOW NEWSMEN, QUIPPED
PERFECT WITH A TWINKLE IN HIS EYE, "I THINK FORD'S ME AT ALL."
BUT I CAN'T AND I WOULDN'T CHANGE A THING WE HAVE TO GO THE PROGRAM ROUTE. IS
UPI 02-06 UNDERSTAND 09:36 AES WHY EVERYONE WAS ,LAUGHING WHEN I WALKED WHOLE IN.
UP-066
(WHITE HOUSE DINNER)
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- JAZZ MUSICIAN BILLY TAYLOR WILL ENTERTAIN
TONIGHT AT THE STATE DINNER HONORING PAKISTANI PRIME MINISTER AND
BEGUM ZULFIKAR ALI BHUTTO.
TAYLOR, WHO GREW UP IN WASHINGTON, HAS BEEN PLAYING PIANO SINCE
THE AGE OF SEVEN AND HAS COMPOSED MORE THAN 300 SONGS AND WRITTEN 12
BOOKS ON MUSIC.
FIRST LADY BETTY FORD CHOSE AN AMERICAN INDIAN THEME FOR THE
EVENING WITH INDIAN BASKETS, FILLED WITH FRESH WILD FLOWERS,
VEGATABLES AND FRUITS AS THE CENTERPIECES. THE BASKETS WERE LOANED TO
THE WHITE HOUSE BY THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN IN NEW YORK
WHICH HOUSES THE LARGEST INDIAN COLLECTION IN THE WORLD.
THE DINNER MENU INCLUDED CONSOMME WITH BRANDY, SUPREME OF PHEASANT
WITH WILD RICE, BRUSSELS SPROUTS ALMONDINE, ENDIVE AND WATERCRESS
SALAD, PORT-SALUI CHEESE AND GRAND MARNIER SOUFFLE.
UPI 02-05 12:57 PES
THE WASHINGTON PO
PEOPLE/SCENE
Thursday, Feb. 6, 1975
R
E
An Evening Blending Two Cultures
By Henry Mitchell
Senators included a Unice spectrum of contention between India and said everybody knew it and "all th
Elegant authentic jazz floated.
Carl Curtis (R Neb.), John Tower
Pakistan.
aides are chuckling." Not everybod
through the stately East Room of the
(R-Tex.), Charles Percy (R-III.), and
The State Department, without leg-
was aware that when Bhutto, in
White House as Billy Taylor's tilo
Frank Church (D Idahos for example,
islation from Congress, could authorize
gracious toast to the President an
delighted President and Mrs. Ford,
and no pattern or theme could be
licenses for the export of some kinds
Mrs. Ford, referred to "this dangerou
Date:
mon to my right" he meant Buchwale