Betty Ford Death

Thank You and Godspeed, Betty Ford

Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker | Posted 09.14.2011

Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker

When I founded the Susan G. Komen Foundation (now Susan G. Komen for the Cure), one of the first people I reached out to was Mrs. Ford.

5 Risks First Lady Betty Ford Took For Women

TresSugar | Posted 09.10.2011

Former First Lady Betty Ford died last weekend at the age of 93. Betty wasn't afraid to share her liberal or moderate positions on social issues, and ...

How Betty Ford Invented the Age of Celebrity

Landon Jones | Posted 09.09.2011

Landon Jones

In one sense the former First Lady was also the First Modern Celebrity -- the one person who more than anyone else brought the private lives of the rich and famous into the public sphere.

The Many Lives Saved By Betty Ford

AP | SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER and ANTHONY MCCARTNEY | Posted 09.08.2011

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Before she is laid to rest, Betty Ford will be memorialized in the Southern California desert region that she and her re...

Former First Lady Betty Ford Dies At 93

AP | CONNIE CASS and LINDA DEUTSCH | Posted 09.07.2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Betty Ford said things that first ladies just don't say, even today. And 1970s America loved her for it. According to Mrs. Ford...