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[1-26-76]
KENNEDY CENTER TRAVEL POOL Sunday night
In a long, 1-o-n-g evening at the Kennedy Center, the Ford's shared
the spotlight with former First Lady Jacquiline Kennedy Onassis.
The Ford's arrived shortly after 7:30p
and иррия their arrival in
the Presidential box on the first teir was announced and applauded by
the estimated 25-hundred paying guests. Boxes on the President's level cos'
$3,000 for the evening. We poolers sat in the lower rent district
of $125 a seat, along with such administration notables as Alan Greenspan
and George Bush.
For nearly four hours
a parade of stars performed in
Roger Stevens
who for no salary has been chairman of the Kennedy Center
Board since the project was first dreamed up (he was is a Broadway
producer and parent of such notables as West Side Story and Man For All
Seasons.)
During the one intermission, President and Mrs, Ford, Vice Pres. and
Mrs. Rockefeller, and Mrs. Onassis and her escort Alejandro Orfila of the
OAS slipped into the Center's African Room for champagne with about
50-others President Ford was seen ************* searching anxiously
for Henry Kissinger, to introduce him to violinist Isaac Stern, one of
the evenings best-received performers.
Poolers missed the finale of Carol Channing coo-ing"Hello, Roger"
for Mr. Stevens but we did, ******** after a dead-run from upstairs,
witness the Ford's getting a goodnight handshake and a sunny smile from
Mrs. Onassis in the basement garage
their limo's had been pulled
up almost side by side.
Quick ride home in heavy mist. Ford's both agreed on their doorstep the
evening was "great" and the President said it was "delightful" to sit
next to the former First Lady.
12:25am
Not a bad travel pool for a quiet Sunday evening.
and
1/26/76
-Compton, ABC News
Digitized from Box 20 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library