Betty Ford Funeral Pictures

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[RummyChick]

But where was Laura Bush?? George came in her place.

[Tax-chick]

Schedule conflict, perhaps.

At least Michelle Obama wasn’t *quite* sleeveless.

[nuconvert]

I cannot abide Rosalynn Carter. Maybe Laura feels the same

[RummyChick]

Plane problems force Bill Clinton to miss Betty Ford’s funeral

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/07/bill-clinton-wont-attend-betty-fords-funeral-due-to-mechanical-problems-on-plane.html?lanow

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2007-04/29323346.jpg

Betty Ford | 1974
(White House / Associated Press)

President and Betty Ford look at a petition of “support and best wishes” signed by all 100 U.S. senators during her 1974 recovery from a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Medical Center. At the time, breast cancer was a taboo subject, and she broke ground by not only disclosing her illness, but talking openly about it and her treatment.

[kalee]

W is such a gentleman. Obozo would never have the patience and concern himself with Mrs Reagan like W is.

As for Mrs Obozo, dress is appropriate but her hair looks like she was drug through the shrubbery backwards.

[kalee]

Yes, where was Laura? LOL Hillary was the best looking of the bunch present, Mrs Reagan excluded.

[RummyChick]

[nuconvert]

I don’t see anything wrong with her hair.
But she is the only person in the pictures wearing short sleeves.

[RummyChick]

[RummyChick]

http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/national_world/ford-service-to-draw-first-ladies-ex-presidents/article_90c15303-4ec9-584d-9b6d-c7b04ec5585c.html

Previous travel committments???

Barbara Bush was going to the private service

[dawn53]

Okay...help me out with the first photo. Nancy R., GWB, Michelle O., Hillary, tall bald guy (SS?), lady in white looks like one of LBJ’s daughters, short grey haired guy is Robb?, woman w/long hair a Kennedy...is that Maria?, guy with the black hair...not placing him.

Anyhoo, if I’ve got all those right, you have representatives from families of Kennedy to present administration w/the exception of Nixon.

[dawn53]

Oops not first photo, sixth photo.

[kalee]

First pic looks frizzy and unsmooth to me.

[RummyChick]

Maria..but dont know about the rest.

Check out the picture on http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/
with Betty on the table barefoot. I can’t figure out how to post that pic.

[kalee]

Yesm the lady in white with black trim is one of the Johnson daughters and the other one is Maria Shriver.

[SoKatt]

A gentleman and a class act. I really, really miss him.

[RummyChick]

Here is the picture from another site with the story


Of course, if it has Michelle Obama ..I would have had a fit at seeing it.

http://www.canthook.com/node/139

On the last day of the Jerry Ford administration, Betty was walking through the White House with David Kennerly, the White House photographer.

Kennerly, 29, had grown close to the Fords during Jerry's administration. He was, in the words of William Booth, bearded, funny, loyal, profane, and talented.

"You know, I've always wanted to dance on the cabinet room table," Betty said. Kennerly said, "Well, nobody's around." There was a Secret Service agent discreetly outside the door.

She took off her shoes, hopped up there, and struck a pose. "I just think I'm going to do this," Kennerly remembers her saying, and then she's on the table. "She's a tiny woman, really, in very good shape. Very graceful, as a former dancer with the Martha Graham company. She got up there."

Kennerly says he doesn't know why she danced up there, but he has a guess. Very few women have had a seat at that table. "Knowing her support for the Equal Rights Amendment" - she endorsed it - "she was tap-dancing in the middle of this male bastion."

"It was a wonderful and whimsical ending," Betty Ford recently wrote, "to that magical time I spent as first lady."

[kalee]

Same here.

[RetiredArmy]

There was a lot of ugly sticks used before that funeral. Mrs. Reagan was the real lady in that group. She still looks good, but a bit frail.

[RummyChick]