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Capital Footnotes
Exercise Equipment to Sub for Ford's Pool
Only minor changes
in the White House
living quarters
will be made
President and Mrs.
when the new First
Ford will share the
Family moves in
First Lady's
bedroom when they
tomorrow.
move into the White
House tomorrow.
By Isabelle Shelton
The canopied bed
Star-News Staff Writer
President Ford may not be able to swim in the
used by Mrs. Nixon
White House, at least for a while, but he will have
exercise equipment to work with in the White
has already been
House.
Since he and Mrs. Ford plan to make the "First
removed and put in
Lady's Bedroom" their bedroom, he plans to run
the adjacent "President's Bedroom" into a den-
storage. The Fords
TV room and also install some exercise equipment
there.
will bring their own
The $5,000 antique canopied bed that White
House Curator Clement Conger installed in the
bed.
room last year for President Nixon has already
been moved to storage, and Ford's favorite blue
leather lounge chair and hassock have already been
moved in:
The bed used by First Lady Pat Nixon also has
gone to storage, and when the Fords move in late
tomorrow they will find their own double bed, from
their Alexandria home, waiting for them. The
super-efficient White Staff will even have the
Ford's paddedheadboard covered in fabric match-
That gift, incidentally could serve as a prece-
small five years ago, one reason the Nixon admin-
going on at the White House and they say: 'Don't
ing the bedspread and draperies already in the
dent for the Fords' accepting a swimming pool, if
istration had the new one built in the first place.
work today.
anyone feels a precedent is needed.
Institute officials say also that today's pools are
That figure does not include the cost of a bullet-
room, a green brocade with small self-pattern.
There
have
been
4
DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1974
For Our First Family,
It's Moving Experience
By ANN WOOD
the next week or SO will be stored with most
Washington, Aug. 19 (News Bureau)
of their furniture, and then their Alexandria
-Susan Ford put on blue jeans, a white
house will be rented. The President's com-
fortable blue leather chair-marked with a
polo shirt-but no shoes-gave her cat
lot of cat scratches-already had been moved
a tranquilizer for the traumatic move to
to the White House.
UPI Telephoto
First Family's furniture arrives at White House.
N.Y. Priest Agrees
Ask 1½M in Death of Sperm
To Boston Baptism
By CAUSEWELL VAUGHN
A Florida couple filed a $1.5 million $ uit in federal court yesterday charging Pres-
byterian Hospital and one of its department heads with having destroyed a culture of
sperm and ova from which they had hoped to get a child.
If plans work out, 3-month-old Nathaniel Ryan Morreale will
The suit alleged that the hos-
take place approximately four
princt
on
the
stens
of
vital
nf
Proer
days later.
Sunda Aug 1st 18, 1974
portfolio
Capital Footnotes
Exercise Equipment to Sub for Ford's Pool
Only minor changes
in the White House
living quarters
will be made
President and Mr
when the new First
Ford will share th
Family moves in
First Lady's
bedroom when the
tomorrow.
move into the Whi
House tomorrow.
By Isabelle Shelton
The canopied bed
Star-News Staff Writer
Presi Jent Ford may not be able to swim in the
used by Mrs. Nixo
White House, at least for a while, but he will have
exercise equipment to work with in the White
has already been
House.
Since he and Mrs. Ford plan to make the "First
removed and put
Lady's Bedroom" their bedroom, he plans to run
the adjacent "President's Bedroom" into a den-
storage. The Ford
TV room and also install some exercise equipment
there.
will bring their OW
The $5,000 antique canopied bed that White
House Curator Clement Conger installed in the
bed.
room last year for President Nixon has already
been moved to storage, and Ford's favorite blue
leather lounge chair and hassock have already been
moved in.
The bed used by First Lady Pat Nixon also has
gone to storage, and when the Fords move in late
tomorrew they will find their own double bed, from
their A exandria home, waiting for them. The
-
The pool which
former President
Nixon covered up to
build a new press
room may never be
seen again. Here it
is shown as it was
during the Kennedy
administration with
a mural scene of
the harbor at
Christiansted, St.
Croix.
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8/16/74 Daily News
Fords at Home
In White House
Starting Monday
At noon today, Gerald Ford will have
been President of the United States for
I week and he still usually makes his
own breakfast before being taken to
work from his home in suburban Alex-
andria, Va. But he works long hours
in his new office and, little by little,
the Fords are becoming more of the
White House scene. Though they don't
actually move in until Monday, Betty
Ford will be hostess at her first state
dinner tonight (in honor of Jordan's
King Hussein). Meanwhile, Betty is
doing most of the packing of personal
belongings - though government
movers will transport the major furnish-
ings. First to complete her packing is
daughter Susan, 17, who is going on
vacation next week and won't move
into White House till she returns.
Other picture page 1
5
Associated Press Wirephoto
Susan's Ready for White House.
Friends and Secret Service agent help Susan Ford (2d r.) with
boxes she's taking from Alexandria, Va., home. Ford family moves
into White House Monday. Susan finished packing first. She won't move till she returns from vacation.
-Other pictures in centerfold
Daily News 8/16/74
uential quality.
week.
STar 8/16/74
STATE
bin
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SEALD
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Associated Press
First Lady Betty Ford packs boxes at her home in Alexandria in
preparation for moving into the White House.
$
Canner spokesman said. pie as a sov. unascoming
A First Leap
-
A First Lap
Toward a Pool
Toward a Pool
POOL, From B1 (
On President Ford's first
day in office he said he'd
him construction of a White
like to reclaim the pool.
House pool was considered
By Sarah Booth Conroy
Washington Post cartoonist
last year. Markert said it
Herbert Block drew a car-
was thought that the best
President Gerald Ford press secretary Jerry ter-
toon, published on Wednes-
site would be near the tennis
may be able to keep his Horst said yesterday that
day, offering to swap the
court in the area called "the
President the press quarters
trim figure, if plans for a 4.3 some of Ford's Grand Rap-
children's garden" where
in naturn for press confer
$100.000 20x50-foot glassed ids, Mich., friends were talk-
Fords and Cat
Are Settled In
By Isabelle Shelton
Star-News Staff Writer
The Jerry Fords moved into the White House yes-
terday and everybody seemed to feel at home right
away.
When the President and his wife arrived in mid-
afternoon from a trip to Chicago, they found daughter
sup
Pa
etc
of
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at
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-Star-News Photographer Ken Heinen
Movers unload furniture, etc., at White House.
See MOVING, C-3
POST 8/20/74
SCENE
By Harry Nalchavan-The Washington Post
Susan Ford: From 514 Crown View Drive, Alexandria, to the third floor at 1600
Pennsylvania Ave.
Forward to 1600
By Donnie Radcliffe
ees which boxes went to
turned from Chicago in mid-
which rooms upstairs in the
afternoon yesterday, Mr.
The Gerald R. Ford fam-
White House living quar-
Ford's clothing, at least, was
ily, which officially includes
ters.
sorted and hanging in the
the President; the First
There were cartons- of
dressing room which adjoins
Lady; a daughter, Susan;
house
plants
marked
the bedroom she and her
The Birmungham News 8/16/74
BERALD TORD
LIBRARY
Associated Press wirephoto
Packing for White House
First Lady Betty Ford packs boxes at her Alexandria, Va., home in preparation for the
move next week by her family into the White House. Mrs. Ford said little in the way of
redecoration will be necessary.
Newsday
RIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1974
UPI Photo
Betty Ford packs books in Alex-
andria, Va., yesterday in prepara-
GERALD
tion for the new First Family's
FORD
move into the White House.
EMGULH
ing a delicate thought, when
and decided to change things.
my Trichus
"MASSAGE PARLOR" (R)
are living in communes, with
Paul Newman Robert Redford
"GROUP MARRIAGE" (R)
the phone rings.
The first opportunity came
LIBRA
16A St. Louis Clobe-Demorrat Wed., Aug. 21, 1974
Fords move lock, stock and beds
By ANN WOOD
The bedroom where Richard Nixon used to
JUST BEFORE she left, Sușan, looking
WASHINGTON - Susan Ford put on blue
sleep will be a multi-purpose room where Mr.
a bit sad about leaving the Alexandria
jeans, a white polo shirt - but no shoes -
home where she has lived all her life, went
gave her cat a tranquilizer for the traumat-
Ford may work out on his recently-purchased
across the street to say goodby to Mr. and
ic move to the White House, and carried
exercise equipment.
Mrs. Peter A. Abbruzzese. Susan has often
her bright red suitcases to a waiting car
baby-sat with their children, Anne, 6 and
early Monday morning soon after her nar
12-B THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Thurs., Aug. 22, 1974
Imagine Problems
F
Fords Had Moving
the
tio
and
The little story in the news-
sweet, gently faded rag rugs
por
paper the other day about the
my old friend, Mattie Morris,
Ad
move President and Mrs. Ger-
made for me years ago? I bet
I
ald Ford made from their
there isn't a room in the
an
unpretentious home of 20
executive mansion fitten for a
cou
years to the White House
rag rug, which is too bad be-
/
made me happy once more to
cause when firelight or sun-
tot
be a plain citizen.
light strikes their muted
Wouldn't it be just awful to
colors they give me the great-
have to pack your dear and
CELESTINE
est sense of comfort. I haven't
familiar old junk into a truck
waked up to priceless Oriental
headed for the White House to
be photographed by television
SIBLEY
carpets but I'm sure it's not
the same.
and catalogued by newspaper
None of the stories told us
reporters for the whole world
what Mrs. Ford did about her
to see?
Christmas decorations but I
Moving is bad enough. I've the old man and the voung-
hope she took them along.
LIBRARY
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, Tues., Aug. 20, 1974
NORMI
moving day
AP Photos
White House now the right house for the Fords-
President Ford was shaking and moving Monday. In the
idence. LEFT: While her father and mother were visiting
Perrot, assists. RIGHT: Son, Steven, hugs the First Lady as
morning he flew to Chicago for a speech and returned to
the Midwest, Susan Ford, 17, was unpacking her belong-
he welcomes her and the President home from Chicago.
find himself ensconced in the Chief Executive's formal res-
ings in her third floor bedroom. A Ford aide, Marba
"Welcome home" equaled "Welcome to the White House."
LIBRARY
Fords move kitten and caboodle to new C home
By Donnie Radcliffe
The adjoining bedroom, where Richard M. Nixon used to
White House although only Susan, who will be a senior this fall
Special from the Washington Post
sleep, will become a multipurpose room in which the Fords
at Holton Arms, will be a full-time resident.
may watch television or the President may work out on his
Steven was out on the South Lawn in his blue jeans to give
WASHINGTON - The Gerald R. Ford family, which in-
recently purchased exercise equipment.
his mother a welcome-home kiss when she stepped from the
cludes the President; the First Lady; a daughter, Susan;
His favorite powder blue leather chair and hassock, which
helicopter. It all went "very smoothly," according to Mrs.
three sons, Steve, Jack and Mike; a daughter-in-law, Gayle,
occupied a prominent place in the Fords' Alexandria living
Howe. "Everybody is quite well settled."
and a Siamese cat, Shan, moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Av.
room, was moved in last Friday. Orders accompanying it
The Fords scheduled their first private party, an evening
Monday
were for a sturdy end table large enough to accommodate an
cocktail reception for 60 Secret Service men and their wives
moring day
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"I can see high corn prices,
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exports a bit and less lives-
ock bred because of this,"
Murphy said.
Some sources said the situa-
ion was worse than the Agri-
:ulture Department a n-
nounced.
Robert Lounsberry, the se-
retary of agriculture in
owa, the nation's largest
orn producer, estimated over
he weekend that the state's
orn cTop would be only 800
million bushels. The govern-
nent crop report put the fig-
are over 998 million bushels.
Ray Swigart of Farmer
ity, Ill., also was pessimis-
ic.
"I haven't seen it this bad
1 years. I know it's over
wre than 12 per cent here in
linois," he said, referring to
ne government's estimated
ver-all drop in the corn har-
est.
Rise
ossible today. Most of the
aders gathered in little
oups in private conversa-
ons.
The general feeling was
at if corn continues to open
the limit across the coun-
y, wheat prices also will
ntinue to be strong.
Continental Grain Company
creased bids here to buy
heat at terminals by 20
nts to $4.72 before bids even
bened.
Cash bids for corn were re-
rted to be 40 cents above
Mrs. Betty Ford waves good by to President
esterday's bids.
Work
Gerald Ford as he leaves his Alexandria, Va.,
Johnson said that corn
uld bring at least $3.85 a
Day
home today on his way to the White House,
(Wirephoto)
shel on the cash market to-
ly, but hardly anyone was
See MARKET on Next Page
Dole Offers Rockefeller,
The Weather
Goldwater as 1st Choices
Partly cloudy tonight with a
V in the 70s and southerly
From the Washington Bureau
former Republican national
The names of Goldwater
ds any to 10 miles == hour
Washington Sen. Bob Dole
chairman said he is Usting
and Rockefeller have surfaced
the National Weather Serv-
(R-Kant) is recommending
Rockefeller and Goldwater
moving day
Page A12
THE SACRAMENTO BEE Wednesday, August 14, 1974
Packing Delayed
State Dinner Interrupts Fords' Move
ALEXANDRIA,
Va.
(AP) - First lady Betty
Ford has delayed her pack-
ing for the move to the
White House because of
preparations she must
make for a state dinner Fri-
dav night for. Jordanian
Paul Pioneer
First Newspaper in Minnesota
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1974
51
President Ford is off to work from his with a goodby wave from his wife Betty
Alexandria, Va., home Tuesday morning
-AP Wirephota
99nu put STIMOUS
I
Blue jeans appear at the White House as
Steven Ford welcomes parents back from
President's speech to war veterans.
WITH A NEW
FIRST FAMILY,
WIDE WORLD
STYLE IN WHITE HOUSE IS CHANGING
A "home folks" feeling is taking hold as the Fords settle in.
trappings that his immediate predeces-
sors had enjoyed, added touches of his
Lively but low-key, it marks a big change from the four
own, and maintained, as well, a "West-
decades of lavish living that began with Franklin D. Roosevelt.
ern White House" at San Clemente,
Calif., and a "Florida White House" at
Key Biscayne.
After decades of what often appeared
have lived amid increasingly
con-
"Feels at home." Long-time associ-
to be a regal way of living by U.S.
spicuous opulence.
ates of President Ford say there is every
Presidents, a return to a more modest
President Roosevelt set precedents
reason to anticipate a simpler, more
life style is coming into view at the
that some critics called "imperial."
informal way of life than that which the
White House.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, restless in the
nation has come to expect from its Chief
of Ford. and the Unusa much
in the
NEWS SUMMARY
August 24, 1974
(Fri. nets, wires, papers. Digest of Comment Separate)
The Major Stories:
-- "Gloomy economic news on many fronts" led Mudd as all nets
began 8-13 minutes on economy w/revised predictions of higher
food prices and D-J dropping 18 to below 700 for 1st time in
4 yrs. It's not always an accurate indicator, but given
other economic news, said ABC, it's cause for concern. "Wall
St.'s acutely conscious of economy in trouble," said CBS.
DJ's lost 1/3 of its mkt value since it was at 1000 "only"
21 months ago, said NBC
Besides drought-caused 4-5% hike
in food prices foreseen --- 15% for yr will be highest in 28
yrs, noted ABC -- Pan Am's "imminent financial crisis" was
covered by ABC/NBC film w/cbs also noting the troubled air-
line's call for $10M/month federal subsidy and NBC looked at
the closing of small plywood COS. caught in squeeze
Reces-
sion seen as necessary antidote by Wall St/bank analysts on
ABC and Gabriel Hauge called on GF to name NR as the economic
coordinator
In another worrisome economic story, UMW's
threats of Nov. strike on ABC/NBC film.
- GF's aware of "very grievous" economic problems requiring
action, noted all nets, but he wants to hold off any major
steps til after economic summit 4-6 wks away. No plan of
any new program til then, said NBC's Nessen w/GF trying to
beat down inflation w/current policies of high interest,
spending cuts and sluggish economy w/its resulting unemploy-
ment til he sees a better plan that he's sure'll work. As all
nets noted, CBS in lead, GF doesn't intend to be a cowboy
shooting down both sides of st. w/out a specific target.
"Colorful," said NBC of JtH's statement
Jarriel said GF
didn't have economy on front-burner Fri
Besides talk of
higher food prices, CBS said gov't was also talking of higher
fuel prices and more unemployment, said CBS
Ash said there
are no plans for gas tax hike, noted NBC but others in Admin
say it's still under consideration
Treasury consideration
of removing controls on domestic crude noted by all nets w/
Sawhill on ABC/CBS and Jackson on CBS critical of that idea
and any gas tax hike.
-- Syrian for. min. Khaddam on ABC/NBC film w/GF (CBS note) and
Valeriani reported US sees it as most impt. visit in current
phase of talks as Syria's not believed decided on peace or
war course yet and he's highest ranking Syrian here in 30
yrs
ABC w/brief clip of GF w/sr. citizens (CBS noted)
BF in final move on CBS film as she said it's "amazing" how
comfortable and at home they already feel at WH.
Blue jeans appear at the White House as
Steven Ford welcomes parents back from
President's speech to war veterans.
U
WITH A NEW
FIRST FAMILY,
WIDE WORLD
STYLE IN WHITE HOUSE IS CHANGING
A "home folks" feeling is taking hold as the Fords settle in.
trappings that his immediate predeces-
sors had enjoyed, added touches of his
Lively but low-key, it marks a big change from the four
own, and maintained, as well, a "West-
decades of lavish living that began with Franklin D. Roosevelt.
ern White House" at San Clemente,
Calif., and a "Florida White House" at
Key Biscayne.
After decades of what often appeared
have lived amid increasingly con-
"Feels at home." Long-time associ-
to be a regal way of living by U.S.
spicuous opulence.
ates of President Ford say there is every
Presidents, a return to a more modest
President Roosevelt set precedents
reason to anticipate a simpler, more
life style is coming into view at the
that some critics called "imperial."
informal way of life than that which the
White House.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, restless in the
nation has come to expect from its Chief
wne -
12
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, Tues., Aug. 20, 1974
moving stay
AP Photos
White House now the right house for the Fords
President Ford was shaking and moving Monday. In the
idence. LEFT: While her father and mother were visiting
Perrot; assists. RIGHT: Son, Steven, hugs the First Lady as
morning he flew to Chicago for a speech and returned to
the Midwest, Susan Ford, 17, was unpacking her belong-
he welcomes her and the President home from Chicago.
find himself ensconced in the Chief Executive's formal res-
ings in her third floor bedroom. A Ford aide, Marba
"Welcome home" equaled "Welcome to the White House."
Fords move kitten and caboodle to new home
By Donnie Radcliffe
The adjoining bedroom, where Richard M. Nixon used to
White House although only Susan, who will be a senior this fall
Special from the Washington Post
sleep, will become a multipurpose room in which the Fords
at Holton Arms, will be a full-time resident.
may watch television or the President may work out on his
Steven was out on the South Lawn in his blue jeans to give
WASHINGTON - The Gerald R. Ford family, which in-
recently purchased exercise equipment.
his mother a welcome-home kiss when she stepped from the
...
AP_Photos
White House now the right house for the Fords
President Ford was shaking and moving Monday. In the
idence. LEFT: While her father and mother were visiting
Perrot; assists. RIGHT: Son, Steven, hugs the First Lady as
morning he flew to Chicago for a speech and returned to
the Midwest, Susan Ford, 17, was unpacking her belong-
he welcomes her and the President home from Chicago.
find himself ensconced in the Chief Executive's formal res-
ings in her third floor bedroom. A Ford aide, Marba
"Welcome home" equaled "Welcome to the White House."
Fords move kitten and caboodle to new home
By Donnie Radcliffe
The adjoining bedroom, where Richard M. Nixon used to
White House although only Susan, who will be a senior this fall
Special from the Washington Post
sleep, will become a multipurpose room in which the Fords
at Holton Arms, will be a full-time resident.
may watch television or the President may work out on his
Steven was out on the South Lawn in his blue jeans to give
WASHINGTON - The Gerald R. Ford family, which in-
recently purchased exercise equipment.
his mother a welcome-home kiss when she stepped from the
cludes the President; the First Lady; a daughter, Susan;
His favorite powder blue leather chair and hassock, which
helicopter. It all went "very smoothly," according to Mrs.
three sons, Steve, Jack and Mike; a daughter-in-law, Gayle,
occupied a prominent place in the Fords' Alexandria living
Howe. "Everybody is quite well settled."
and a Siamese cat. Shan. moved into 1600 Pennsvlvania Av.
room, was moved in last Friday. Orders accompanying it
The Fords scheduled their first private party, an evening
move
12-B THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Thurs., Aug. 22, 1974
Imagine Problems
Fords Had Moving
The little story in the news-
sweet, gently faded rag rugs
paper the other day about the
my old friend, Mattie Morris,
move President and Mrs. Ger-
made for me years ago? I bet
ald Ford made from their
there isn't a room in the
unpretentious home of 20
executive mansion fitten for a
years to the White House
rag rug, which is too bad be
made me happy once more to
cause when firelight or sun-
be a plain citizen.
light strikes their muted
Wouldn't it be just awful to
colors they give me the great
have to pack your dear and
CELESTINE
est sense of comfort. I haven't
familiar old junk into a truck
waked up to priceless Orienta
headed for the White House to
and catalogued by newspaper
SIBLEY
carpets but I'm sure it's no
be photographed by television
the same.
None of the stories told us
reporters for the whole world
what Mrs. Ford did about he
to see?
Christmas decorations but :
Moving is bad enough. I've
the old man and the young-
hope she took them along
never lived anywhere for as
'uns, can't she take her own
Even with that monstrous na
long as 20 years but the years
rolling pin and egg beater
tional Christmas tree they
4 have spent in the two houses
into the White House
have at the White House ther
8/20/74
SCENE
By Harry Nalchavan-The Washington Post
Susan Ford: From 514 Crown View Drive, Alexandria, to the third floor at 1600
Pennsylvania Ave.
Forward to 1600
By Donnie Radcliffe
ees which boxes went to
turned from Chicago in mid-
which rooms upstairs in the
afternoon yesterday, Mr.
The Gerald R. Ford fam-
White House living quar-
Ford's clothing, at least, was
ily, which officially includes
ters.
sorted and hanging in the
the President; the First
There were cartons of
dressing room which adjoins
Lady; a daughter, Susan;
house plants marked
the bedroom she and her
Luchand -
The Birmingham News 8/16/74
Associated Press wirephoto
Packing for White House
First Lady Betty Ford packs boxes at her Alexandria, Va., home in preparation for the
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ove next week by her family into the White House. Mrs. Ford said little in the way of
ecoration will be necessary.
UPI Photo
Ford packs books in in Alex- prepara-
Betty Va., yesterday
tion. andria, House. Family's
for the new First
.move into the White
RIDAY, ÁUGUST 16. Newsday 1974
WOMEN TODAY
Betty Ford is
All-American
wife, mother
BY LAURA BERMAN
WASHINGTON
Betty Bloomer Ford, the nation's first lady, hadn't
even finished furnishing the new vice-presidential
residence, Admiral's House, when word came she would
be moving instead to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The turn of events didn't catch her off guard though,
for she learned when she first married Gerald Ford "I
thought he was going to be a lwyer and we would live in
Grand Rapids") not to plan ahead.
When asked what she would do if she became First
Lady a few months ago, Betty Ford replied: Well, I guess
I'd take it as it comes. I've been in politics for 25 years and
I've learned to roll with the punches.
It's easy enough to see why. A year ago Betty Ford
was just another Congressman's wife, albeit the wife of
the House Minority Leader. When Spiro Agnew's
resignation vaulted Gerald Ford into the vice-presidency,
Associated Press wirephoto
Betty suddenly found herself a public figure.
Mrs. Gerald Ford waves as she met with newsmen outs de her home in Alexandria,
Now, with equal suddeness, she is the nation's First
Va., Thursday. She became the first lady at noon Frida when her husband was sworn
Lady, charged with all the duties that job entails. She is
in as the 38th President. An unidentified Secret Service agent holds the umbrella for
expected to be a diplomat, a gracious hostess, a tireless
Mrs. Ford.
traveler, and a speechmaker.
story on Page 2
LIBRAMY OROA
UPI Telephoto
Hears Sermon on Women Priests.
President and Mrs. Ford chat with the Rev. Patricia Park after
hearing her sermon at Itamanuel Ghurch on the Hill, Alexandria,
Va., yesterday. She discussed the recent controversy over ordination of 11 women as Episcopalian priests. Story p.2 : other pice centerfold,
Entertainment at the Ford White House Will be More of the Same
By Howard A. Coffin
soned Washington correspondent who has spent a lot
The President supported legislation for adequate
THE NIXONS also had their own private stereo and
Knight Newspaper Service
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By Howard A. Coffin
soned Washington correspondent who has spent a lot
The President supported legislation for adequate
THE NIXONS also had their own private stereo and
Knight Newspaper Service
Sit.
The abrupt change from the Nixon to the Ford
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Administration may mean changes for America's
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foreign and domestic policies, but it is not likely to
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revolutionize entertainment in the White House.
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President Gerald R. Ford's tastes in entertainment
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and the arts are, like those of his predecessor, fairly
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well rooted in the mainstream of Middle America.
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"President Ford is a booster of the arts, although he's
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loves the ballet and goes often."
admirer of Capra's films and has recently read
commission of experts working with Mrs. Nixon and
friends down, though, and they'd watch something a
"He goes for, basically, 1950s stuff," says a sea-
Capra's book, "The Name Above the Title."
her staff.
little more risque.
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THE EXAMPLE she gave was "Love Story": "The
President and the whole family watched it, she said,
recalling that during one of the embraces between Ali
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Fords move-lock, stock and beds
By ANN WOOD
The bedroom where Richard Nixon used to
JUST BEFORE she left. Susan, looking
WASHINGTON - Susan Ford put on blue
sleep will be a multi-purpose room where Mr.
a bit sad about leaving the Alexandria
jeans, a white polo shirt - but no shoes -
home where she has lived all her life, went
gave her cat a tranquilizer for the traumat-
Ford may work out on his recently-purchased
across the street to say goodby to Mr. and
ic move to the White House, and carried
exercise equipment.
Mrs. Peter A. Abbruzzese. Susan has often
her bright red suitcases to a waiting car
baby sat with their children, Anne, 6 and
early Monday morning soon after her par-
Peter Matthew, 2, for a dollar an hour.
ents left for a speaking engagement in Chi-
cago.
clothing and their king-size bed, which
accompanying it were for a sturdy end ta-
And she has offered to take care of them
consists of twin mattresses and springs
ble large enough to accommodate an' as-
at the White House when Louise Abbruzz-
toiletry
-Star-News Photographer Brig Cabe
Stills, Crosby, Nash and Young - together again.
Fords and Cat
Are Settled In
By Isabelle Shelton
Star-News Staff Writer
The Jerry Fords moved into the White House yes-
terday and everybody seemed to feel at home right
away.
When the President and his wife arrived in mid-
afternoon from a trip to Chicago, they found daughter
Sucan's S cot. Shan curled un on their double
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DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1974
For Our First Family,
It's a Moving Experience
By ANN WOOD
the next week or so will be stored with most
Washington, Aug. 19 (News Bureau)
of their furniture, and then their Alexandria
-Susan Ford put on blue jeans, a white
house will be rented. The President's com-
fortable blue leather chair-marked with a
polo shirt-but no shoes-gave her cat
lot of cat scratches-already had been moved
a tranquilizer for the traumatic move to
to the White House.
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Ford Presidential Library for access to\nthese materials.\nDigitized from Box 1 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nCapital Footnotes\nExercise Equipment to Sub for Ford's Pool\nOnly minor changes\nin the White House\nliving quarters\nwill be made\nPresident and Mrs.\nwhen the new First\nFord will share the\nFamily moves in\nFirst Lady's\nbedroom when they\ntomorrow.\nmove into the White\nHouse tomorrow.\nBy Isabelle Shelton\nThe canopied bed\nStar-News Staff Writer\nPresident Ford may not be able to swim in the\nused by Mrs. Nixon\nWhite House, at least for a while, but he will have\nexercise equipment to work with in the White\nhas already been\nHouse.\nSince he and Mrs. Ford plan to make the \"First\nremoved and put in\nLady's Bedroom\" their bedroom, he plans to run\nthe adjacent \"President's Bedroom\" into a den-\nstorage. The Fords\nTV room and also install some exercise equipment\nthere.\nwill bring their own\nThe $5,000 antique canopied bed that White\nHouse Curator Clement Conger installed in the\nbed.\nroom last year for President Nixon has already\nbeen moved to storage, and Ford's favorite blue\nleather lounge chair and hassock have already been\nmoved in:\nThe bed used by First Lady Pat Nixon also has\ngone to storage, and when the Fords move in late\ntomorrow they will find their own double bed, from\ntheir Alexandria home, waiting for them. The\nsuper-efficient White Staff will even have the\nFord's paddedheadboard covered in fabric match-\nThat gift, incidentally could serve as a prece-\nsmall five years ago, one reason the Nixon admin-\ngoing on at the White House and they say: 'Don't\ning the bedspread and draperies already in the\ndent for the Fords' accepting a swimming pool, if\nistration had the new one built in the first place.\nwork today.\nanyone feels a precedent is needed.\nInstitute officials say also that today's pools are\nThat figure does not include the cost of a bullet-\nroom, a green brocade with small self-pattern.\nThere\nhave\nbeen\n4\nDAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1974\nFor Our First Family,\nIt's Moving Experience\nBy ANN WOOD\nthe next week or SO will be stored with most\nWashington, Aug. 19 (News Bureau)\nof their furniture, and then their Alexandria\n-Susan Ford put on blue jeans, a white\nhouse will be rented. The President's com-\nfortable blue leather chair-marked with a\npolo shirt-but no shoes-gave her cat\nlot of cat scratches-already had been moved\na tranquilizer for the traumatic move to\nto the White House.\nUPI Telephoto\nFirst Family's furniture arrives at White House.\nN.Y. Priest Agrees\nAsk 1½M in Death of Sperm\nTo Boston Baptism\nBy CAUSEWELL VAUGHN\nA Florida couple filed a $1.5 million $ uit in federal court yesterday charging Pres-\nbyterian Hospital and one of its department heads with having destroyed a culture of\nsperm and ova from which they had hoped to get a child.\nIf plans work out, 3-month-old Nathaniel Ryan Morreale will\nThe suit alleged that the hos-\ntake place approximately four\nprinct\non\nthe\nstens\nof\nvital\nnf\nProer\ndays later.\nSunda Aug 1st 18, 1974\nportfolio\nCapital Footnotes\nExercise Equipment to Sub for Ford's Pool\nOnly minor changes\nin the White House\nliving quarters\nwill be made\nPresident and Mr\nwhen the new First\nFord will share th\nFamily moves in\nFirst Lady's\nbedroom when the\ntomorrow.\nmove into the Whi\nHouse tomorrow.\nBy Isabelle Shelton\nThe canopied bed\nStar-News Staff Writer\nPresi Jent Ford may not be able to swim in the\nused by Mrs. Nixo\nWhite House, at least for a while, but he will have\nexercise equipment to work with in the White\nhas already been\nHouse.\nSince he and Mrs. Ford plan to make the \"First\nremoved and put\nLady's Bedroom\" their bedroom, he plans to run\nthe adjacent \"President's Bedroom\" into a den-\nstorage. The Ford\nTV room and also install some exercise equipment\nthere.\nwill bring their OW\nThe $5,000 antique canopied bed that White\nHouse Curator Clement Conger installed in the\nbed.\nroom last year for President Nixon has already\nbeen moved to storage, and Ford's favorite blue\nleather lounge chair and hassock have already been\nmoved in.\nThe bed used by First Lady Pat Nixon also has\ngone to storage, and when the Fords move in late\ntomorrew they will find their own double bed, from\ntheir A exandria home, waiting for them. The\n-\nThe pool which\nformer President\nNixon covered up to\nbuild a new press\nroom may never be\nseen again. Here it\nis shown as it was\nduring the Kennedy\nadministration with\na mural scene of\nthe harbor at\nChristiansted, St.\nCroix.\nUnited Press International\nSectional\nBars and\n& Chairs\nStools\nIS YOUR BOY OR GIRL HARD TO FIT?\nRATTAN\nWe are interested in purchasing\nWE SPECIALIZE IN FITTING\nFURNITURE &\nDiamonds, Emeralds, Rubies,\nhubby Girls\nACCESSORIES\nSapphires, and precious Jewels.\nSALE\nlawless Diamond Engagement\n8/16/74 Daily News\nFords at Home\nIn White House\nStarting Monday\nAt noon today, Gerald Ford will have\nbeen President of the United States for\nI week and he still usually makes his\nown breakfast before being taken to\nwork from his home in suburban Alex-\nandria, Va. But he works long hours\nin his new office and, little by little,\nthe Fords are becoming more of the\nWhite House scene. Though they don't\nactually move in until Monday, Betty\nFord will be hostess at her first state\ndinner tonight (in honor of Jordan's\nKing Hussein). Meanwhile, Betty is\ndoing most of the packing of personal\nbelongings - though government\nmovers will transport the major furnish-\nings. First to complete her packing is\ndaughter Susan, 17, who is going on\nvacation next week and won't move\ninto White House till she returns.\nOther picture page 1\n5\nAssociated Press Wirephoto\nSusan's Ready for White House.\nFriends and Secret Service agent help Susan Ford (2d r.) with\nboxes she's taking from Alexandria, Va., home. Ford family moves\ninto White House Monday. Susan finished packing first. She won't move till she returns from vacation.\n-Other pictures in centerfold\nDaily News 8/16/74\nuential quality.\nweek.\nSTar 8/16/74\nSTATE\nbin\nPENEL\nE\nSEALD\nSEAL\nLIBRARY\nAssociated Press\nFirst Lady Betty Ford packs boxes at her home in Alexandria in\npreparation for moving into the White House.\n$\nCanner spokesman said. pie as a sov. unascoming\nA First Leap\n-\nA First Lap\nToward a Pool\nToward a Pool\nPOOL, From B1 (\nOn President Ford's first\nday in office he said he'd\nhim construction of a White\nlike to reclaim the pool.\nHouse pool was considered\nBy Sarah Booth Conroy\nWashington Post cartoonist\nlast year. Markert said it\nHerbert Block drew a car-\nwas thought that the best\nPresident Gerald Ford press secretary Jerry ter-\ntoon, published on Wednes-\nsite would be near the tennis\nmay be able to keep his Horst said yesterday that\nday, offering to swap the\ncourt in the area called \"the\nPresident the press quarters\ntrim figure, if plans for a 4.3 some of Ford's Grand Rap-\nchildren's garden\" where\nin naturn for press confer\n$100.000 20x50-foot glassed ids, Mich., friends were talk-\nFords and Cat\nAre Settled In\nBy Isabelle Shelton\nStar-News Staff Writer\nThe Jerry Fords moved into the White House yes-\nterday and everybody seemed to feel at home right\naway.\nWhen the President and his wife arrived in mid-\nafternoon from a trip to Chicago, they found daughter\nsup\nPa\netc\nof\nM\nЭЛ\nat\nA\n-Star-News Photographer Ken Heinen\nMovers unload furniture, etc., at White House.\nSee MOVING, C-3\nPOST 8/20/74\nSCENE\nBy Harry Nalchavan-The Washington Post\nSusan Ford: From 514 Crown View Drive, Alexandria, to the third floor at 1600\nPennsylvania Ave.\nForward to 1600\nBy Donnie Radcliffe\nees which boxes went to\nturned from Chicago in mid-\nwhich rooms upstairs in the\nafternoon yesterday, Mr.\nThe Gerald R. Ford fam-\nWhite House living quar-\nFord's clothing, at least, was\nily, which officially includes\nters.\nsorted and hanging in the\nthe President; the First\nThere were cartons- of\ndressing room which adjoins\nLady; a daughter, Susan;\nhouse\nplants\nmarked\nthe bedroom she and her\nThe Birmungham News 8/16/74\nBERALD TORD\nLIBRARY\nAssociated Press wirephoto\nPacking for White House\nFirst Lady Betty Ford packs boxes at her Alexandria, Va., home in preparation for the\nmove next week by her family into the White House. Mrs. Ford said little in the way of\nredecoration will be necessary.\nNewsday\nRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1974\nUPI Photo\nBetty Ford packs books in Alex-\nandria, Va., yesterday in prepara-\nGERALD\ntion for the new First Family's\nFORD\nmove into the White House.\nEMGULH\ning a delicate thought, when\nand decided to change things.\nmy Trichus\n\"MASSAGE PARLOR\" (R)\nare living in communes, with\nPaul Newman Robert Redford\n\"GROUP MARRIAGE\" (R)\nthe phone rings.\nThe first opportunity came\nLIBRA\n16A St. Louis Clobe-Demorrat Wed., Aug. 21, 1974\nFords move lock, stock and beds\nBy ANN WOOD\nThe bedroom where Richard Nixon used to\nJUST BEFORE she left, Sușan, looking\nWASHINGTON - Susan Ford put on blue\nsleep will be a multi-purpose room where Mr.\na bit sad about leaving the Alexandria\njeans, a white polo shirt - but no shoes -\nhome where she has lived all her life, went\ngave her cat a tranquilizer for the traumat-\nFord may work out on his recently-purchased\nacross the street to say goodby to Mr. and\nic move to the White House, and carried\nexercise equipment.\nMrs. Peter A. Abbruzzese. Susan has often\nher bright red suitcases to a waiting car\nbaby-sat with their children, Anne, 6 and\nearly Monday morning soon after her nar\n12-B THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Thurs., Aug. 22, 1974\nImagine Problems\nF\nFords Had Moving\nthe\ntio\nand\nThe little story in the news-\nsweet, gently faded rag rugs\npor\npaper the other day about the\nmy old friend, Mattie Morris,\nAd\nmove President and Mrs. Ger-\nmade for me years ago? I bet\nI\nald Ford made from their\nthere isn't a room in the\nan\nunpretentious home of 20\nexecutive mansion fitten for a\ncou\nyears to the White House\nrag rug, which is too bad be-\n/\nmade me happy once more to\ncause when firelight or sun-\ntot\nbe a plain citizen.\nlight strikes their muted\nWouldn't it be just awful to\ncolors they give me the great-\nhave to pack your dear and\nCELESTINE\nest sense of comfort. I haven't\nfamiliar old junk into a truck\nwaked up to priceless Oriental\nheaded for the White House to\nbe photographed by television\nSIBLEY\ncarpets but I'm sure it's not\nthe same.\nand catalogued by newspaper\nNone of the stories told us\nreporters for the whole world\nwhat Mrs. Ford did about her\nto see?\nChristmas decorations but I\nMoving is bad enough. I've the old man and the voung-\nhope she took them along.\nLIBRARY\n12\nCHICAGO SUN-TIMES, Tues., Aug. 20, 1974\nNORMI\nmoving day\nAP Photos\nWhite House now the right house for the Fords-\nPresident Ford was shaking and moving Monday. In the\nidence. LEFT: While her father and mother were visiting\nPerrot, assists. RIGHT: Son, Steven, hugs the First Lady as\nmorning he flew to Chicago for a speech and returned to\nthe Midwest, Susan Ford, 17, was unpacking her belong-\nhe welcomes her and the President home from Chicago.\nfind himself ensconced in the Chief Executive's formal res-\nings in her third floor bedroom. A Ford aide, Marba\n\"Welcome home\" equaled \"Welcome to the White House.\"\nLIBRARY\nFords move kitten and caboodle to new C home\nBy Donnie Radcliffe\nThe adjoining bedroom, where Richard M. Nixon used to\nWhite House although only Susan, who will be a senior this fall\nSpecial from the Washington Post\nsleep, will become a multipurpose room in which the Fords\nat Holton Arms, will be a full-time resident.\nmay watch television or the President may work out on his\nSteven was out on the South Lawn in his blue jeans to give\nWASHINGTON - The Gerald R. Ford family, which in-\nrecently purchased exercise equipment.\nhis mother a welcome-home kiss when she stepped from the\ncludes the President; the First Lady; a daughter, Susan;\nHis favorite powder blue leather chair and hassock, which\nhelicopter. It all went \"very smoothly,\" according to Mrs.\nthree sons, Steve, Jack and Mike; a daughter-in-law, Gayle,\noccupied a prominent place in the Fords' Alexandria living\nHowe. \"Everybody is quite well settled.\"\nand a Siamese cat, Shan, moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Av.\nroom, was moved in last Friday. Orders accompanying it\nThe Fords scheduled their first private party, an evening\nMonday\nwere for a sturdy end table large enough to accommodate an\ncocktail reception for 60 Secret Service men and their wives\nmoring day\nTM\nCITY STAR\nTo Subscribe Call Circulation 221-6200\n3, 1974-26 PAGES\nNews, Editorial and Business Office 421-1200\nFor Classified Ads Call 221-6000\n15c\nush\nar\nfeed corn, would cut back.\n\"I can see high corn prices,\n1 shortage of corn, a limit on\n51\nexports a bit and less lives-\nock bred because of this,\"\nMurphy said.\nSome sources said the situa-\nion was worse than the Agri-\n:ulture Department a n-\nnounced.\nRobert Lounsberry, the se-\nretary of agriculture in\nowa, the nation's largest\norn producer, estimated over\nhe weekend that the state's\norn cTop would be only 800\nmillion bushels. The govern-\nnent crop report put the fig-\nare over 998 million bushels.\nRay Swigart of Farmer\nity, Ill., also was pessimis-\nic.\n\"I haven't seen it this bad\n1 years. I know it's over\nwre than 12 per cent here in\nlinois,\" he said, referring to\nne government's estimated\nver-all drop in the corn har-\nest.\nRise\nossible today. Most of the\naders gathered in little\noups in private conversa-\nons.\nThe general feeling was\nat if corn continues to open\nthe limit across the coun-\ny, wheat prices also will\nntinue to be strong.\nContinental Grain Company\ncreased bids here to buy\nheat at terminals by 20\nnts to $4.72 before bids even\nbened.\nCash bids for corn were re-\nrted to be 40 cents above\nMrs. Betty Ford waves good by to President\nesterday's bids.\nWork\nGerald Ford as he leaves his Alexandria, Va.,\nJohnson said that corn\nuld bring at least $3.85 a\nDay\nhome today on his way to the White House,\n(Wirephoto)\nshel on the cash market to-\nly, but hardly anyone was\nSee MARKET on Next Page\nDole Offers Rockefeller,\nThe Weather\nGoldwater as 1st Choices\nPartly cloudy tonight with a\nV in the 70s and southerly\nFrom the Washington Bureau\nformer Republican national\nThe names of Goldwater\nds any to 10 miles == hour\nWashington Sen. Bob Dole\nchairman said he is Usting\nand Rockefeller have surfaced\nthe National Weather Serv-\n(R-Kant) is recommending\nRockefeller and Goldwater\nmoving day\nPage A12\nTHE SACRAMENTO BEE Wednesday, August 14, 1974\nPacking Delayed\nState Dinner Interrupts Fords' Move\nALEXANDRIA,\nVa.\n(AP) - First lady Betty\nFord has delayed her pack-\ning for the move to the\nWhite House because of\npreparations she must\nmake for a state dinner Fri-\ndav night for. Jordanian\nPaul Pioneer\nFirst Newspaper in Minnesota\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1974\n51\nPresident Ford is off to work from his with a goodby wave from his wife Betty\nAlexandria, Va., home Tuesday morning\n-AP Wirephota\n99nu put STIMOUS\nI\nBlue jeans appear at the White House as\nSteven Ford welcomes parents back from\nPresident's speech to war veterans.\nWITH A NEW\nFIRST FAMILY,\nWIDE WORLD\nSTYLE IN WHITE HOUSE IS CHANGING\nA \"home folks\" feeling is taking hold as the Fords settle in.\ntrappings that his immediate predeces-\nsors had enjoyed, added touches of his\nLively but low-key, it marks a big change from the four\nown, and maintained, as well, a \"West-\ndecades of lavish living that began with Franklin D. Roosevelt.\nern White House\" at San Clemente,\nCalif., and a \"Florida White House\" at\nKey Biscayne.\nAfter decades of what often appeared\nhave lived amid increasingly\ncon-\n\"Feels at home.\" Long-time associ-\nto be a regal way of living by U.S.\nspicuous opulence.\nates of President Ford say there is every\nPresidents, a return to a more modest\nPresident Roosevelt set precedents\nreason to anticipate a simpler, more\nlife style is coming into view at the\nthat some critics called \"imperial.\"\ninformal way of life than that which the\nWhite House.\nDwight D. Eisenhower, restless in the\nnation has come to expect from its Chief\nof Ford. and the Unusa much\nin the\nNEWS SUMMARY\nAugust 24, 1974\n(Fri. nets, wires, papers. Digest of Comment Separate)\nThe Major Stories:\n-- \"Gloomy economic news on many fronts\" led Mudd as all nets\nbegan 8-13 minutes on economy w/revised predictions of higher\nfood prices and D-J dropping 18 to below 700 for 1st time in\n4 yrs. It's not always an accurate indicator, but given\nother economic news, said ABC, it's cause for concern. \"Wall\nSt.'s acutely conscious of economy in trouble,\" said CBS.\nDJ's lost 1/3 of its mkt value since it was at 1000 \"only\"\n21 months ago, said NBC\nBesides drought-caused 4-5% hike\nin food prices foreseen --- 15% for yr will be highest in 28\nyrs, noted ABC -- Pan Am's \"imminent financial crisis\" was\ncovered by ABC/NBC film w/cbs also noting the troubled air-\nline's call for $10M/month federal subsidy and NBC looked at\nthe closing of small plywood COS. caught in squeeze\nReces-\nsion seen as necessary antidote by Wall St/bank analysts on\nABC and Gabriel Hauge called on GF to name NR as the economic\ncoordinator\nIn another worrisome economic story, UMW's\nthreats of Nov. strike on ABC/NBC film.\n- GF's aware of \"very grievous\" economic problems requiring\naction, noted all nets, but he wants to hold off any major\nsteps til after economic summit 4-6 wks away. No plan of\nany new program til then, said NBC's Nessen w/GF trying to\nbeat down inflation w/current policies of high interest,\nspending cuts and sluggish economy w/its resulting unemploy-\nment til he sees a better plan that he's sure'll work. As all\nnets noted, CBS in lead, GF doesn't intend to be a cowboy\nshooting down both sides of st. w/out a specific target.\n\"Colorful,\" said NBC of JtH's statement\nJarriel said GF\ndidn't have economy on front-burner Fri\nBesides talk of\nhigher food prices, CBS said gov't was also talking of higher\nfuel prices and more unemployment, said CBS\nAsh said there\nare no plans for gas tax hike, noted NBC but others in Admin\nsay it's still under consideration\nTreasury consideration\nof removing controls on domestic crude noted by all nets w/\nSawhill on ABC/CBS and Jackson on CBS critical of that idea\nand any gas tax hike.\n-- Syrian for. min. Khaddam on ABC/NBC film w/GF (CBS note) and\nValeriani reported US sees it as most impt. visit in current\nphase of talks as Syria's not believed decided on peace or\nwar course yet and he's highest ranking Syrian here in 30\nyrs\nABC w/brief clip of GF w/sr. citizens (CBS noted)\nBF in final move on CBS film as she said it's \"amazing\" how\ncomfortable and at home they already feel at WH.\nBlue jeans appear at the White House as\nSteven Ford welcomes parents back from\nPresident's speech to war veterans.\nU\nWITH A NEW\nFIRST FAMILY,\nWIDE WORLD\nSTYLE IN WHITE HOUSE IS CHANGING\nA \"home folks\" feeling is taking hold as the Fords settle in.\ntrappings that his immediate predeces-\nsors had enjoyed, added touches of his\nLively but low-key, it marks a big change from the four\nown, and maintained, as well, a \"West-\ndecades of lavish living that began with Franklin D. Roosevelt.\nern White House\" at San Clemente,\nCalif., and a \"Florida White House\" at\nKey Biscayne.\nAfter decades of what often appeared\nhave lived amid increasingly con-\n\"Feels at home.\" Long-time associ-\nto be a regal way of living by U.S.\nspicuous opulence.\nates of President Ford say there is every\nPresidents, a return to a more modest\nPresident Roosevelt set precedents\nreason to anticipate a simpler, more\nlife style is coming into view at the\nthat some critics called \"imperial.\"\ninformal way of life than that which the\nWhite House.\nDwight D. Eisenhower, restless in the\nnation has come to expect from its Chief\nwne -\n12\nCHICAGO SUN-TIMES, Tues., Aug. 20, 1974\nmoving stay\nAP Photos\nWhite House now the right house for the Fords\nPresident Ford was shaking and moving Monday. In the\nidence. LEFT: While her father and mother were visiting\nPerrot; assists. RIGHT: Son, Steven, hugs the First Lady as\nmorning he flew to Chicago for a speech and returned to\nthe Midwest, Susan Ford, 17, was unpacking her belong-\nhe welcomes her and the President home from Chicago.\nfind himself ensconced in the Chief Executive's formal res-\nings in her third floor bedroom. A Ford aide, Marba\n\"Welcome home\" equaled \"Welcome to the White House.\"\nFords move kitten and caboodle to new home\nBy Donnie Radcliffe\nThe adjoining bedroom, where Richard M. Nixon used to\nWhite House although only Susan, who will be a senior this fall\nSpecial from the Washington Post\nsleep, will become a multipurpose room in which the Fords\nat Holton Arms, will be a full-time resident.\nmay watch television or the President may work out on his\nSteven was out on the South Lawn in his blue jeans to give\nWASHINGTON - The Gerald R. Ford family, which in-\nrecently purchased exercise equipment.\nhis mother a welcome-home kiss when she stepped from the\n...\nAP_Photos\nWhite House now the right house for the Fords\nPresident Ford was shaking and moving Monday. In the\nidence. LEFT: While her father and mother were visiting\nPerrot; assists. RIGHT: Son, Steven, hugs the First Lady as\nmorning he flew to Chicago for a speech and returned to\nthe Midwest, Susan Ford, 17, was unpacking her belong-\nhe welcomes her and the President home from Chicago.\nfind himself ensconced in the Chief Executive's formal res-\nings in her third floor bedroom. A Ford aide, Marba\n\"Welcome home\" equaled \"Welcome to the White House.\"\nFords move kitten and caboodle to new home\nBy Donnie Radcliffe\nThe adjoining bedroom, where Richard M. Nixon used to\nWhite House although only Susan, who will be a senior this fall\nSpecial from the Washington Post\nsleep, will become a multipurpose room in which the Fords\nat Holton Arms, will be a full-time resident.\nmay watch television or the President may work out on his\nSteven was out on the South Lawn in his blue jeans to give\nWASHINGTON - The Gerald R. Ford family, which in-\nrecently purchased exercise equipment.\nhis mother a welcome-home kiss when she stepped from the\ncludes the President; the First Lady; a daughter, Susan;\nHis favorite powder blue leather chair and hassock, which\nhelicopter. It all went \"very smoothly,\" according to Mrs.\nthree sons, Steve, Jack and Mike; a daughter-in-law, Gayle,\noccupied a prominent place in the Fords' Alexandria living\nHowe. \"Everybody is quite well settled.\"\nand a Siamese cat. Shan. moved into 1600 Pennsvlvania Av.\nroom, was moved in last Friday. Orders accompanying it\nThe Fords scheduled their first private party, an evening\nmove\n12-B THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Thurs., Aug. 22, 1974\nImagine Problems\nFords Had Moving\nThe little story in the news-\nsweet, gently faded rag rugs\npaper the other day about the\nmy old friend, Mattie Morris,\nmove President and Mrs. Ger-\nmade for me years ago? I bet\nald Ford made from their\nthere isn't a room in the\nunpretentious home of 20\nexecutive mansion fitten for a\nyears to the White House\nrag rug, which is too bad be\nmade me happy once more to\ncause when firelight or sun-\nbe a plain citizen.\nlight strikes their muted\nWouldn't it be just awful to\ncolors they give me the great\nhave to pack your dear and\nCELESTINE\nest sense of comfort. I haven't\nfamiliar old junk into a truck\nwaked up to priceless Orienta\nheaded for the White House to\nand catalogued by newspaper\nSIBLEY\ncarpets but I'm sure it's no\nbe photographed by television\nthe same.\nNone of the stories told us\nreporters for the whole world\nwhat Mrs. Ford did about he\nto see?\nChristmas decorations but :\nMoving is bad enough. I've\nthe old man and the young-\nhope she took them along\nnever lived anywhere for as\n'uns, can't she take her own\nEven with that monstrous na\nlong as 20 years but the years\nrolling pin and egg beater\ntional Christmas tree they\n4 have spent in the two houses\ninto the White House\nhave at the White House ther\n8/20/74\nSCENE\nBy Harry Nalchavan-The Washington Post\nSusan Ford: From 514 Crown View Drive, Alexandria, to the third floor at 1600\nPennsylvania Ave.\nForward to 1600\nBy Donnie Radcliffe\nees which boxes went to\nturned from Chicago in mid-\nwhich rooms upstairs in the\nafternoon yesterday, Mr.\nThe Gerald R. Ford fam-\nWhite House living quar-\nFord's clothing, at least, was\nily, which officially includes\nters.\nsorted and hanging in the\nthe President; the First\nThere were cartons of\ndressing room which adjoins\nLady; a daughter, Susan;\nhouse plants marked\nthe bedroom she and her\nLuchand -\nThe Birmingham News 8/16/74\nAssociated Press wirephoto\nPacking for White House\nFirst Lady Betty Ford packs boxes at her Alexandria, Va., home in preparation for the\n(\nove next week by her family into the White House. Mrs. Ford said little in the way of\necoration will be necessary.\nUPI Photo\nFord packs books in in Alex- prepara-\nBetty Va., yesterday\ntion. andria, House. Family's\nfor the new First\n.move into the White\nRIDAY, ÁUGUST 16. Newsday 1974\nWOMEN TODAY\nBetty Ford is\nAll-American\nwife, mother\nBY LAURA BERMAN\nWASHINGTON\nBetty Bloomer Ford, the nation's first lady, hadn't\neven finished furnishing the new vice-presidential\nresidence, Admiral's House, when word came she would\nbe moving instead to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.\nThe turn of events didn't catch her off guard though,\nfor she learned when she first married Gerald Ford \"I\nthought he was going to be a lwyer and we would live in\nGrand Rapids\") not to plan ahead.\nWhen asked what she would do if she became First\nLady a few months ago, Betty Ford replied: Well, I guess\nI'd take it as it comes. I've been in politics for 25 years and\nI've learned to roll with the punches.\nIt's easy enough to see why. A year ago Betty Ford\nwas just another Congressman's wife, albeit the wife of\nthe House Minority Leader. When Spiro Agnew's\nresignation vaulted Gerald Ford into the vice-presidency,\nAssociated Press wirephoto\nBetty suddenly found herself a public figure.\nMrs. Gerald Ford waves as she met with newsmen outs de her home in Alexandria,\nNow, with equal suddeness, she is the nation's First\nVa., Thursday. She became the first lady at noon Frida when her husband was sworn\nLady, charged with all the duties that job entails. She is\nin as the 38th President. An unidentified Secret Service agent holds the umbrella for\nexpected to be a diplomat, a gracious hostess, a tireless\nMrs. Ford.\ntraveler, and a speechmaker.\nstory on Page 2\nLIBRAMY OROA\nUPI Telephoto\nHears Sermon on Women Priests.\nPresident and Mrs. Ford chat with the Rev. Patricia Park after\nhearing her sermon at Itamanuel Ghurch on the Hill, Alexandria,\nVa., yesterday. She discussed the recent controversy over ordination of 11 women as Episcopalian priests. Story p.2 : other pice centerfold,\nEntertainment at the Ford White House Will be More of the Same\nBy Howard A. Coffin\nsoned Washington correspondent who has spent a lot\nThe President supported legislation for adequate\nTHE NIXONS also had their own private stereo and\nKnight Newspaper Service\nof\nThe abrupt change from the Nixon to the Ford\nN\nAdministration may mean changes for America's\nel\nforeign and domestic policies, but it is not likely to\nB\nrevolutionize entertainment in the White House.\nth\nPresident Gerald R. Ford's tastes in entertainment\nand the arts are, like those of his predecessor, fairly\nfa\nwell rooted in the mainstream of Middle America.\nS(\nE\n\"President Ford is a booster of the arts. although he's\nM\nnot a devotee,\" says Paul Miltich, who was Ford's\nb\nlongtime press secretary until last week, when he be-\ncame an assistant to presidential press secretary Jer-\nCI\nald terHorst.\nSI\n\"HE DOES NOT understand classical music per-\nformances, but he enjoys going to concerts and the\ng\nballet,\" said Miltich, who pointed out that \"Mrs. Ford\nIT\nloves the ballet and goes often.\"\na\n\"He goes for, basically, 1950s stuff,\" says a sea-\nC\nTHE EXAMPLE she gave was \"Love Story\": \"The\nCHIEF\nContinued From F-1\nEntertainment at the Ford White House Will be More of the Same\nBy Howard A. Coffin\nsoned Washington correspondent who has spent a lot\nThe President supported legislation for adequate\nTHE NIXONS also had their own private stereo and\nKnight Newspaper Service\nSit.\nThe abrupt change from the Nixon to the Ford\nnie\nAdministration may mean changes for America's\nhat\nforeign and domestic policies, but it is not likely to\nrite\nrevolutionize entertainment in the White House.\nhe\nPresident Gerald R. Ford's tastes in entertainment\noys\nand the arts are, like those of his predecessor, fairly\nuke\nwell rooted in the mainstream of Middle America.\nthe\n\"President Ford is a booster of the arts, although he's\nthe\nnot a devotee,\" says Paul Miltich, who was Ford's\nhey\nlongtime press secretary until last week, when he be-\nthe\ncame an assistant to presidential press secretary Jer-\nften\nald terHorst.\ncM-\n\"HE DOES NOT understand classical music per-\nformances, but he enjoys going to concerts and the\nballet,\" said Miltich, who pointed out that \"Mrs. Ford\nheir\nloves the ballet and goes often.\"\nadmirer of Capra's films and has recently read\ncommission of experts working with Mrs. Nixon and\nfriends down, though, and they'd watch something a\n\"He goes for, basically, 1950s stuff,\" says a sea-\nCapra's book, \"The Name Above the Title.\"\nher staff.\nlittle more risque.\nSee CHIEF, F-4\nCHIEF\nContinued From F-1\nTHE EXAMPLE she gave was \"Love Story\": \"The\nPresident and the whole family watched it, she said,\nrecalling that during one of the embraces between Ali\nMcGraw and Ryan O'Neal, one of the girls' told\nORDE\nDERALD\nlovers\nor\nWIII\nmoung day\n6A St. Louis Clobe-Demorrat Wed., Aug. 21, 1974\nFords move-lock, stock and beds\nBy ANN WOOD\nThe bedroom where Richard Nixon used to\nJUST BEFORE she left. Susan, looking\nWASHINGTON - Susan Ford put on blue\nsleep will be a multi-purpose room where Mr.\na bit sad about leaving the Alexandria\njeans, a white polo shirt - but no shoes -\nhome where she has lived all her life, went\ngave her cat a tranquilizer for the traumat-\nFord may work out on his recently-purchased\nacross the street to say goodby to Mr. and\nic move to the White House, and carried\nexercise equipment.\nMrs. Peter A. Abbruzzese. Susan has often\nher bright red suitcases to a waiting car\nbaby sat with their children, Anne, 6 and\nearly Monday morning soon after her par-\nPeter Matthew, 2, for a dollar an hour.\nents left for a speaking engagement in Chi-\ncago.\nclothing and their king-size bed, which\naccompanying it were for a sturdy end ta-\nAnd she has offered to take care of them\nconsists of twin mattresses and springs\nble large enough to accommodate an' as-\nat the White House when Louise Abbruzz-\ntoiletry\n-Star-News Photographer Brig Cabe\nStills, Crosby, Nash and Young - together again.\nFords and Cat\nAre Settled In\nBy Isabelle Shelton\nStar-News Staff Writer\nThe Jerry Fords moved into the White House yes-\nterday and everybody seemed to feel at home right\naway.\nWhen the President and his wife arrived in mid-\nafternoon from a trip to Chicago, they found daughter\nSucan's S cot. Shan curled un on their double\n4\nDAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1974\nFor Our First Family,\nIt's a Moving Experience\nBy ANN WOOD\nthe next week or so will be stored with most\nWashington, Aug. 19 (News Bureau)\nof their furniture, and then their Alexandria\n-Susan Ford put on blue jeans, a white\nhouse will be rented. The President's com-\nfortable blue leather chair-marked with a\npolo shirt-but no shoes-gave her cat\nlot of cat scratches-already had been moved\na tranquilizer for the traumatic move to\nto the White House.\nGERALD R. FORD LIBRARY\nThe item described below has been transferred from this file to:\nAudiovisual Unit\nBook Collection\nFord Museum in Grand Rapids\nItem:\n3 8\"x10\" BW photos of Susan unpaching with Marba Perrott\nWhite House Photos\n18AG74A0197-15A\n18AG74A0197 - 30A -\n18AG74A0197 - 34A\nThe item was transferred from: Weidenfeld Box I\nInitials/Date let 2/86\nI-\nI\nI\n\"\nIN\nC\nI\n11:"
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