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Betty Ford — wife of President Gerald Ford, advocate for breast cancer awareness and activist for women’s issues — died Friday with her children around her at age 93.
Mar 7, 2024 · A new forever postage stamp bearing the portrait of former U.S. First Lady Betty Ford was unveiled at the White House on Wednesday afternoon. Ford, who died in 2011, was an advocate for women’s health and breast cancer awareness — having undergone breast cancer surgery in 1974. (Mar. 6)
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Jul 9, 2011 · Betty Ford, the outspoken and much-admired wife of President Gerald R. Ford who overcame alcoholism and an addiction to pills and helped found one of the best-known rehabilitation centers in...
Jul 12, 2011 · One of the nation's most-admired first ladies, Betty Ford, died Friday at her home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at the age of 93. Gwen Ifill introduces an excerpt of a documentary that examined...
Jul 5, 2007 · Former first lady Betty Ford, whose candor about her own battles with substance abuse helped erase much of the stigma attached to addiction, has died. She was 93.
Jul 9, 2011 · Former first lady Betty Ford has died at the age of 93. During her life she helped change the way Americans think and talk about breast cancer, women's rights and substance abuse.
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Jul 9, 2011 · Betty Ford, Former First Lady and Feminist, 93. A staunch advocate for women's rights and equal rights, Ford spoke publicly in favor of abortion and federally-funded daycare.
