The wife of the Vice President of our country is called the Second
Lady of the United States. It was Betty Ford’s title as of December 6, 1973
when Richard Nixon became President and Gerald Ford (Betty’s second husband) was
V.P. August 9, 1974 Nixon resigned in the wake of the Watergate Scandal, and
Betty became First Lady; her title until 1977. The following year her family
staged an intervention to force her to confront her addiction to alcohol and to
pain killers. “I liked alcohol,” she explained. “It made me feel warm. And I
loved pills. They took away my tension and my pain. My makeup wasn’t smeared; I
wasn’t disheveled. I behaved politely and I never finished off a bottle. So how
could I be alcoholic? ” But she was. After her recovery, she established the
Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, for the treatment of chemical
dependency.
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