Being A Lady Does Not

A Housewife Deserves To Be Honored As Much As A Woman Who Earns Her Living In The Marketplace. I Consider Bringing Up Children A Responsible Job. In Fact, Being A Good Housewife Seems To Me A Much Tougher Job Than Going To The Office And Getting Paid For It.

For 14 Years, I'd Been On Medication For The Pinched Nerve, The Arthritis, The Muscle Spasms In My Neck, And I'd Lost My Tolerance For Pills. If I Had A Single Drink, The Alcohol, On Top Of The Pills, Would Make Me Groggy.

Isn't That Wonderful? When We Drove Through Several Of The Places We Lived - Grand Rapids, Washington - They All Had Those Placards. That They Stood By The Street And Had In Their Hands Placards That Said 'gerald Our Ford'. That Meant So Much To Us As We Were Driving Into Washington.

When Other Women Have This Same Operation, It Doesn't Make Any Headlines. But The Fact That I Was The Wife Of The President Put It In Headlines And Brought Before The Public This Particular Experience I Was Going Through. It Made A Lot Of Women Realize That It Could Happen To Them. I'm Sure I've Saved At Least One Person Maybe More.

And I Have Always Told The Patients When I Talk To Them. When They Come Around And Say, "what Will You Have To Drink? Oh That's Right You Don't Drink." Just Speak Up And Say, 'of Course I Drink. But I Just Don't Drink Alcohol.'