Betty Ford was expressive and wasn’t always bound to cultural norms. Unlike some first ladies before her, she publicly ...

The day her husband became president ... Her accomplishments would lie elsewhere. What Betty Ford did was save lives—first, when she brought breast cancer out of its dark, leprous corner ...

Ford’s marriage to Betty coincided with the start of ... Had she been more persistent with her husband, she said, the first woman on the Supreme Court might have come during the Ford presidency.