First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies (46 page)

         
tensions between East and West Wing, 5

         
see also
specific first ladies

     
First Lady from Plains
(Rosalynn Carter), 257

     
Fitzgerald, Ella, 76

     
Fitzgerald, Jennifer, 274

     
Florida Supreme Court, 131

     
Flowers, Gennifer, 35, 239

     
Flowers, Michael “Rahni,” 29, 49, 138–39

     
Folsom Prison, 170

     
food, cost of at White House, 21

     
Forbes, Alastair Granville, 32

     
Ford, Betty

         
on addiction to alcohol and pills, 98, 214–17, 323, 324

         
assassination attempts against husband and, 6, 14, 79, 300

         
and Barbara Bush, 43, 80

         
and Betty Ford Center, 42

         
and breast cancer, 14, 83, 93–94, 95–100

         
and changes to White House décor, 253

         
Christmas gifts of, 77

         
death of, 322, 325

         
on difficulties of being first lady, 9

         
early life of, 94–95, 97

         
East vs. West Wing, 168

         
feelings upon leaving White House, 319

         
as first lady, 14

         
on Ford’s flirtations, 33

         
on Ford’s loss to Carter, 255–56

         
and Ford’s speechwriter, 28

         
friendship with Lady Bird Johnson of, 8, 45, 156

         
friendship with Rosalynn Carter of, 43

         
and Hillary Clinton, 2, 56

         
and Johnsons’ White House visit, 93, 98

         
joint
Good Housekeeping
interview of, 113, 254

         
on Kennedy’s assassination, 6

         
Laura Bush collaboration with, 80–81

         
marriage and motherhood of, 122–24

         
and Nancy Reagan, 79, 253, 321

         
outspokenness of, 188–91

         
Pat Nixon supported by, 14, 296–97

         
political influence of, 40

         
presidential campaign of 1976 and, 99–100

         
Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to, 100

         
on public expectations of first lady, 4

         
public speaking and, 285, 299

         
relationship with staff of, 27

         
Secret Service protection escaped by, 47

         
struggle with depression of, 193, 272

         
White House pool installed by, 45

         
and White House tour for Rosalynn Carter, 255–56

     
Ford, Gayle, 216

     
Ford, Gerald, 40, 69

         
assassination attempts on, 6, 14, 79, 300

         
attends Sadat’s funeral, 260

         
and Betty’s breast cancer treatment, 97–99

         
death and funeral of, 217–18

         
and Jimmy Carter, 222–23, 255–56

         
marriage to Betty of, 33

         
Nixon pardoned by, 95, 297

         
political career of, 122–24

         
portraits of, 23

         
presidency assumed by, 14

         
and presidential campaign of 1976, 99–100

         
Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to, 100

     
Ford, Jack, 124, 216

     
Ford, Mike, 98, 124, 216

     
Ford, Steve, 6, 94, 135, 216, 297, 300

     
Ford, Susan

         
Carter Center role of, 43

         
effect of loss to Carter on, 256

         
on family life, 123–24

         
on father and JFK Jr., 69

         
on mother’s breakdown, 216

         
on mother’s cancer, 96, 98, 99

         
mother’s comments on, during
60 Minutes
interview, 189

         
on Nancy Reagan’s widowhood, 79

         
and parents’ legacy, 323

         
on parents’ support for each other, 100

         
Secret Service protection for, 164

     
Forster, Nancy Chirdon, 45, 48, 324

     
Fort Chaffee, 262

     
Foster, Vince, 17, 35

     
Fourteenth Amendment, 222

     
Frame, Milton, 190

     
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper
, 10

     
Fratto, Tony, 24, 316

     
Fromme, Lynette “Squeaky,” 300

     
Frondizi, Arturo, 291

     
Fulton County Jail, 126

     
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 200

     
Gallup polls, 238, 239

     
Gamarekian, Barbara, 108–9, 201

     
Gannon, Frank, 213

     
George
, 69

     
George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, 327

     
George Washington University

         
Law School of, 117

         
Medical School of, 96

     
Georgia Southwestern College, 221

     
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum, 80, 189, 218

     
Gibbs, Robert, 24, 170

     
gifts

         
Clintons’ removal of, 329–30

         
among first ladies, 77

         
limitations on acceptance of, 22

     
“God Bless America,” 166

     
Goldwater, Barry, 37, 152, 213, 250

     
Good Housekeeping
, 13, 113, 123, 254

     
Good Wife
,
The
, 242

     
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 16, 265, 302

     
Gorbachev, Raisa, 16, 265, 266–67

     
Gore, Al, 57, 171, 270

     
Gore, Kristin, 270

     
Gore, Sarah, 270

     
Gore, Tipper, 57

     
Graber, Ted, 303

     
Grace, Princess, 108, 200

     
Graham, Billy, 79

     
Graham, Katharine, 289

     
Graham, Martha, 94

     
Grant, Julia, 10

     
Grant, Ulysses S., 10

     
Great Presidents
(tapes), 79

     
Greenberg, Stan, 239

     
Gromyko, Andrei, 85, 237–38

     
Grove, the (Johnson’s memorial park), 93, 96

     
guinea worm, 326

     
gun violence, 329

     
Habitat for Humanity, 263, 326

     
Haig, Alexander, 120

     
Haldeman, H. R. “Bob,” 26–27, 121, 174–78, 182–84, 187, 188, 213

     
Hannie, George, 36, 37, 46, 113, 141, 235, 275, 285, 301–2, 313, 314

     
Hannie, Shirley, 141

     
Hardball
, 76

     
Harper’s Weekly
, 10

     
Hartmann, Robert, 28, 123

     
Harvard Law School, 20

     
health-care reform, 56

         
Hillary Clinton and, 17, 56, 160, 171, 239, 240

         
Obama and, 54

     
Heckler, Margaret, 234

     
Hepburn, Katharine, 13, 308–9

     
Hickory Hill (RFK’s estate), 111

     
Highway Beautification Act (“Lady Bird’s Bill”), 150

     
Hill, Clint, 84, 88, 203

     
Hillary Rodham Clinton Children’s Library, 136

     
Hines, Cragg, 159, 269, 274

     
Hinckley, John, Jr., 303

     
Hirohito, Emperor, 22

     
Hirsch, Jacqueline, 106, 110

     
Hockersmith, Kaki, 161

     
Honey Fitz
(Kennedy yacht), 107

     
Hoover, Herbert, 228

     
Hoover, J. Edgar, 28

     
Hoover, Lou, 228, 244

     
House Judiciary Committee, 57

     
Houston Chronicle
, 159, 274

     
Howe, Nancy, 47, 95

     
Hoyt, Mary, 179

     
Hughes, Don, 290, 291, 292

     
Hurd, Henriette Wyeth, 298

     
Ickes, Harold, 242

     
infidelity

         
of Bill Clinton, 33–34, 36, 239 (
see also
Lewinsky, Monica)

         
of FDR, 18

         
George H. W. Bush’s alleged, 273–74

         
of LBJ, 31

     
Iran-Contra affair, 233, 234

     
Iran hostage crisis, 259, 260

     
Israel, 15

     
Italian-American Federation, 238

     
Jackson, Jesse, 280

     
Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, 66, 73

     
James, Shirley, 144, 322

     
Jarrett, Valerie, 9, 54, 173

     
Jeffries, James, 191

     
Jenkins, Walter, 154–55

     
Jerman, Wilson, 71

     
Jewish National Fund of America, 299

     
Jim Crow segregation laws, 151

     
Joconde
,
La
(Mona Lisa
), 195

     
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, 32, 43, 75, 107, 108, 202

     
Johnny Cash at the White House
, 177

     
John Paul II, Pope, 22

     
Johnson, Lady Bird

         
advice to Barbara Bush given by, 45

         
appearance as concern for, 289

         
Barbara Bush’s admiration for, 266

         
Betty Ford Center supported by, 42

         
Christmas gifts of, 77

         
correspondence with Rosalynn Carter of, 77

         
death threats received by, 151

         
as environmentalist, 150

         
on first lady’s role, 4

         
friendship with Betty Ford, 8, 45, 94–95, 98, 156

         
friendship with Bush family of, 70–71

         
impact of Kennedy assassination on, 69–70, 145

         
Jackie Kennedy relationship of, 65, 68–69, 145, 146–47, 205, 248–50, 320

         
Jackie Kennedy’s décor retained by, 251

         
joint
Good Housekeeping
interview by, 113, 254

         
and Laura Bush, 42, 70–71

         
LBJ presidential library planned by, 330

         
on LBJ’s alleged infidelities, 31

         
on LBJ’s decision not to seek reelection, 254–55

         
letter to Nancy Reagan on Rose interview, 233

         
life after LBJ’s death, 322–23

         
marriage of, 143–56

         
on motherhood, 112–13

         
Nancy Reagan supported by, 79

         
on opening of Kennedy Library, 43

         
and Pat Nixon, 251–52

         
as political wife, 145–47, 150–56, 286–89

         
presidential libraries visited by, 330

         
presidential pardon from Clinton sought by, 44

         
in return to Texas, 320

         
on RFK’s assassination, 313

         
staff member assisted by, 81

         
tapes made by, 112

         
in transition to White House after JFK assassination, 12, 13, 144–45

         
White House visit with Betty Ford and, 93, 98

     
Johnson, Luci Baines

         
on Betty Ford’s cancer surgery, 94

         
birth of, 31