documenting in in her autobiography “Times of My Life.” She uses it as a platform to launch the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif. President Ford dies Dec. 26, 2006, at their ...

Betty Ford is a courageous woman who has battled both breast cancer and addiction. National Correspondent Hattie Kauffman sat down with the former first lady, and with Betty Ford Center CEO John ...

Adds longtime friend Donna Giordano, “I have seen Hollywood stars come up to her and say, ‘You’ve saved my life.'” Betty was reluctant at first to put her name on an addiction hospital. Explains John ...

Now, seven years after her death at age 93, her extraordinary life is the subject of a new biography, Betty Ford, excepted in this week’s PEOPLE. The book, written by Lisa McCubbin, shares new ...

and "history had them in the crosshairs," for another – and the book is drawn in large part from the two memoirs Ford wrote, "The Times of My Life" (1978) and "Betty: A Glad Awakening" (1987).

Timeline of Elizabeth (Betty) Bloomer Ford's life and career: April 8, 1918: Elizabeth Ann Bloomer (Betty) is born in Chicago to William and Hortense Neahr Bloomer. 1920: The Bloomer family ...

That’s right, a drunk. Well, that time is long gone because of one person, not really just a person, a saint and my friend, Mrs. Betty Ford. There "was a time in the old west" that like me had ...

A flurry of past and present public officials offered their condolences after former First Lady Betty Ford died Friday night. Here are a few of the statements commemorating the life of the ...

Could the leaves have known that one day after Gerald Ford took office ... preparation for her future life as a wife and mother. Ballet became Betty’s first crush, but it was modern dance that stole ...

Larry and his guests discuss Betty Ford's life and legacy; how her brief time in the White House changed the role of the First Lady, and her contributions in the fields of substance abuse ...