the betty ford center would have an alumni event, and he would always say, she is the president, i am just former president. you would find him at the grill, barbecuing hotdogs. that was his job. he was pretty comfortable. she gotheedal of freedom, a decade before he did it he was so proud of her. it is a really interesting -- you could do a bug just based on jerry and betty. there is enough drama there. but that is hopefully incorporated in this. susan: we have about 25 minutes left. you explain he took on an incumbent congressman the first time around. he took on the republican leader. what do we learn about him? richard: ford didn't mind all of that. the thing that bothered him -- and he was verbal about it, people thought he was just a republican partisan. he entered politics as an insurgent. he and his father taking on a corrupt republican machine that dominated not only grand rapids that at one point, the state of michigan. in 1948, he took on the idea -- he had been an isolationist himself before the war. the war transformed his attitude just as it did the hometown hero, who wa

my third point too is because of my my work on betty ford betty ford also ends up saying some things that her husband could have never said. yeah, and i think she's a good example, too, but i i enjoyed all of your comments. i i think there are spot on and i i would welcome certainly a panel on the first lady and her press coverage media coverage myra. can i just ask who decided to move hillary's location and beijing, um, according to my colleague. it was an official decision by some level of permanent bureaucrat. um, this colleague of mine said there was absolutely. no mention of mrs. clinton's speech in the next day's coverage of convention in china nothing. okay, so it was official it. so i chinese officials not america. i need officials, right? yeah. well we've reached the 5:30 point and we promise to let you out in an hour. but thank you again to everybody who's joined us. this will be on our youtube channel. so if you go to youtube and just type in first ladies association for research and education or flair, you should be able to find us but it's easier to find us by going to o

they shunted away from packing those locations, my point, because of my work on betty ford, betty ford says some the things her husband could never have said. a good example. they are spot on, i would welcome a panel, the press coverage. >> can i ask who decided to move hillary's location in beijing? >> according to my colleague, it was an official decision buys some level of bureaucrats. this colleague of mine said there was absolutely no mention of mrs. clinton's speech in the next days in china. so it was official. >> we reached the 530 point. we will let you out in an hour. this will be on our youtube channel. type in first ladies associations, research, it is easier to find this by going to our website, flare-net.org. in the lower right-hand corner we have a youtube icon. it will take you and our programs on their. we could find a lot about what we are doing, there's a lot of educational material, hope you might consider becoming a member. thank you for putting the speeches to gather. goodbye, everybody. >> thank you very much. >> if you are enjoying american history tv, sign up f

. >> jimmy: three first ladies. [ cheering ] michelle obama, betty ford played by michelle pfeiffer.rrow night. >> exactly. >> jimmy: by the way, they're both fantastic too. but they didn't have to play somebody who is around, you know. they're playing characters who are dead, fortunately. >> you know what, jimmy? see? it may seem like you're giving me a compliment, but you're just rising my anxiety level. that's all you're doing right now. >> jimmy: okay. >> okay. >> jimmy: have you spoken to michelle and said hey, here's what's coming? this is -- i'm doing you? >> no. >> jimmy: you did not? >> i'm hiding from michelle. >> jimmy: i see. >> i'm hiding, i'm hiding in my house. >> jimmy: nobody invitedler to the premiere or send her a link to see the show before anyone else? >> i'm not sending her anything. >> jimmy: do you want me to do this? >> no! [ applause ] >> jimmy: i think she is going to like it. i don't think it will be received poorly. [ laughter ] >> you know those kids on the playground that would cause a fight? actually, that was me, who i would say you know what she said

ford. number one is that he has a couple of well-publicized stumbles where he falls and one of them was they weren't really his fault. one of them, he was trying to help betty. and a slippery floor. but regardless, these stumbles led to this impress of him as a klutz. now, mind you, gerald ford was probably the best athlete ever to become president. he was expert skier. he was a good tennis player. he was a football player in college and was drafted into the nfl. he didn't play, but he was drafted and so ford was a tremendous athlete. but there was this perception of him as a klutz and because people didn't know his history. so that's one aspect. but the second thing is the culture was changing at the time, and that's really what i'm trying to get out in the book is the way that the what's happening to the president and the evolution of the culture are both important factors in what's going on. and so the culture is changing in that ten, 15 years before, you couldn't make fun of a president on tv, there was an attempt to do a sketch show about lbj in the 1960s, and that was kiboshed by the network censors in kennedy's era. they never made fun of the preside

forced ford to temporarily layoff 600 employees and general motors may idle a kansas plant as soon as today. >>> in san francisco city leaders are working solutions to partner with walgreens. bettyth the question of whether that's plants in planters will keep people from sitting and sleeping outside this store. >> reporter: allen took notice of the new planters outside the walgreens in the castro. his dad has lived around the corner for 47 years. >> they're very pretty. i think they're going to be trashed. they'll be trashed in a couple days, i think. i don't have an issue with it but the homeless people are just going to move around the corner. >> reporter: the planters were put here to deter illegal activity and loiterers outside the 24 hour store. walgreens provided the planters. sf public works paid for soil and plants the supervisor invited the community to fill them over the weekend. >> we have people setting up tents right outside. >> there was a guy two days in a row right in front of my flat. i should be maybe sympathetic but i am not really very sympathetic. i am just tired of this. >> reporter: we met skyler panhandling outside of walgreens where he says you can find