She opened up the Centres for Addictions for Alcohol and Drug Abuse
President Gerald Ford's wife was Betty Ford.Her name is Elizabeth "Betty" Ann Bloomer Ford.
Betty Ford
Betty Ford and Pat Nixon
Betty Ford
Betty Ford
Betty Ford
Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, and Rosalynn Carter
The American First Lady who famously founded an alcohol abuse treatment center was Betty Ford. Many famous people have been treated at the Betty Ford Center over the years.
Gerald Ford and his wife, Betty, both did some fashion modeling when they were young.
Betty Ford was not only the First and Second lady of our country, but she was the author of a few books. in 1987 she co-authored a book about recovering from her alcoholism. She wrote another book in 2003 which was about six women who had enrolled in the clinic named after her and their journeys to recovery.
She was - after Eleanore Roosevelt - the first politically active First Lady, very outspoken on a number of social issues - on which she held liberal views. She was pro-choice, a feminist, passionately supported equal rights for women, and was a strong supporter of better gun control measures. After an intervention by her family she not only faced her alcoholism, but went public with her struggles with alcohol and prescription medicine and became the founder of the still-famous Betty Ford clinic.
Betty Ford was a divorcee when she was First Lady, having had a previous husband before Gerald Ford. Frances Cleveland and Jackie Kennedy married again after they left the White House.