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...In her endorsement, Ford Bales said the U.S. if facing a 'similar dynamic' now as the country was when her father helped lead the country following Watergate. 'America cannot regress back to a divisive paradigm of loathing toward one another and disdain for our Constitution,' she said in her statement. The former first daughter pointed to the 'horrors' of the attack on January 6. She said the forces that incited it must be held accountable and never put in a position of power to do it again. 'We can never allow a repeat of that tragedy,' she said.

<p>Susan Ford finally staged a jailbreak. Like Mandy Moore's character in the recent movie "Chasing Liberty," Ford found that life as a teenager in the White House could be stifling.</p> <p>"I kept thinking 'I want to be normal. But I can't be normal,' " says Ford, now Susan Ford Bales and the mother of two daughters. "Everyone was watching. It was like living out loud."</p>

A BIZARRE PHENOMENON first observed in the 1940s became a crime-fiction epidemic by the 1990s. Famous entertainers, athletes, and presidential relatives began sitting down at the typewriter to bang out mystery novels. Or so they would have us believe. In truth, nearly every one of those celebrities made a deal through an agent or book packager, collected a nice advance for the use of the name, and left to a professional ghostwriter all the actual writing. Ghostwriting is a time-honored practice, and most readers surely realize that movie stars and baseball players have help with their memoirs--just as all politicians...