VINTAGE RARE Susan Ford Hand Signed 8X10 Color Photo For Sale
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VINTAGE RARE Susan Ford Hand Signed 8X10 Color Photo:
$174.99
Up for sale a VINTAGE & RARE! Susan Ford Hand Signed 8X10 Color Photo.
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Susan Elizabeth Ford Bales (born
July 6, 1957) is an American former chair of the board of the Betty Ford
Center for alcohol and drug abuse. Ford is the youngest child and only
daughter of former U.S. President Gerald Ford
and former First Lady Betty Ford.
She was one of three people targeted for violence by the Symbionese Liberation Army and had Secret Service protection well before her
father became president. As a teenager attending the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland, she held her senior prom, for the class
of 1975, in the East Room of the White House. She served as
official White House hostess when
her mother was hospitalized for breast cancer. Ford enrolled in Mount Vernon College for Women
(now part of the George Washington University) in northwest
Washington, D.C. in 1975 when her father was in the White House. She later
transferred to the University of Kansas for the spring
semester of 1977. In recent years and in
addition to her responsibilities at the Betty Ford Center, Ford has been very
active on behalf of her parents and the Ford family at numerous events
throughout the US. That was particularly so during the December 26, 2006 – January 3, 2007 state funeral
services and ceremonies for her father. During that
period, she attended each of the services and ceremonies with her mother, and
over the course of several days personally greeted mourners while President
Ford's casket lay-in-state on the Lincoln Catafalque in the Capital Rotunda and
during the public repose at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand
Rapids, Michigan. She read a passage from the Letter of James during the
funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral, and her daughter Tyne
Berlanga offered one of the Prayers during the funeral service at Grace
Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids. In addition, on January 1, she assisted her
mother in receiving dignitaries and other official visitors who had come to the
President's Guest House
(a.k.a. "Blair House") to pay their personal respects. On January 16, 2007, Susan Ford
spoke at a Naming Ceremony at the Pentagon. At the ceremony, the aircraft
carrier CVN-78 was officially named the Gerald R. Ford. That same day
Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter announced that Ford had been
named the carrier's ceremonial sponsor. On November 14, 2009, Ford participated
in the keel laying for the ship. On June 11, 2007, she delivered remarks in
Washington, D.C., at the ceremony unveiling the U.S. Postal Service's image of
the commemorative stamp honoring President Ford. In July 2007, Ford represented
her mother at the funeral service of former First Lady Lady Bird
Johnson. Also in July 2007, she and her husband Vaden Bales
represented Mrs. Ford and the Ford family at the naming of the Gerald R. Ford
Post Office in Vail, Colorado. On November 9, 2013, she christened
the Gerald R. Ford with a bottle of champagne The ship was commissioned
as USS Gerald R. Ford on July 22, 2017, with Ford Bales in attendance to
give the order, "Man our ship, and bring her to life."
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