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Born at 5:45pm CST

Received the Women's International Center (W.I.C.) Living Legacy Award in 1998.

Co-founder of The Betty Ford Center, Rancho Mirage, California. The mission of the center is "To provide effective alcohol and other drug dependency treatment services, including programs of education and research to help women, men and families begin the process of recovery".

First Lady of the United States of America from 9 August 1974 until 20 January 1977, as wife of the thirty-eighth U.S. President, Gerald Ford.

Mrs. Ford is the mother of four (4) children: Michael Gerald, born 14 March 1950; John Gardner, born 16 March 1952; Steven Meigs (Steven Ford), born 19 May 1956; and Susan Elizabeth (Susan Ford), born 6 July 1957.

Breast cancer survivor.

Then-current U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, honored Mrs. Ford with the Gerald Ford Medal for Distinguished Public Service in 2005.

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