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This film contains footage of First Lady Betty Ford visiting multiple sites during a campaign trip to Texas.
Reel 1 of the film shows Betty Ford arriving at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, during a campaign trip to Texas on 04/19/1976; Betty Ford attending the San Antonio Fiesta River Parade on 04/19/1976; Betty Ford at Kelly Air Force Base on 04/20/1976; Betty Ford at the River Parade; Betty Ford at Kelly Air Force Base; Betty Ford speaking to children at Austin Elementary School in Harlingen on 04/20/1976; Betty Ford with children at Kelly Air Force Base on 04/20/1976; Betty Ford at Miller International Airport in McAllen on 04/20/1976; and Betty Ford at a local President Ford Committee (PFC) Headquarters in Harlingen on 04/20/1976.
Reel 2 of the film shows First Lady Betty Ford boarding the USS Texas and receiving a proclamation in Houston for San Jacinto Day on 04/21/1976 (also pictured are Governor Dolph Briscoe, Ralph Block, Lloyd Gregory, Chester Taylor, and A.G. Taylor); Betty Ford visiting the REACT (Radio Emergency Associated Communications Teams), a citizens band radio group, ground station in Houston on 04/21/1976 and using a CB radio under the call sign “First Mama;” Betty Ford with a square dancing group at Log Cabin Saloon, Gladys City Park, in Beaumont on 04/21/1976; Betty Ford speaking with a group outside at Gladys City Park; Betty Ford with former First Lady Ladybird Johnson in a replica of the Oval Office at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin on 04/22/1976; Betty Ford, Ladybird Johnson, and Luci Johnson Nugent outside the Johnson Presidential Library; Betty Ford at the Jefferson County Airport in Beaumont on 04/22/1976; Betty Ford touring a replica of an old oil town in Gladys City Park on 04/22/1976; Betty Ford departing the Jefferson County Airport; Betty Ford arriving at Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin on 04/22/1976; and Ladybird Johnson greeting Mrs. Ford as she arrives at the Johnson Presidential Library.
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