ford had gone to bethesda and. she had been examined and she left bethesda knowing that the doctors were concerned about her. later in the day, the house physician, dr. luke cash, dr. richard thistle. so wait. believe of one of the d.c. schools school of medicine got together the president to tell him about betty ford's diagnosis. but mrs. ford still did not know it. she was then invited into the meeting and they told her what had been found. well, and also when she they said, you know, we need to go in and you do some surgery to see what it is they know exactly that if it was cancer. so when she went into the hospital, they said, you know, while in there, if it is cancer, we're going to remove your breast. so when she went into the hospital, she did not know if she was going to wake up without a breast i mean, terrifying, very terrifying. and again, faced that face, that fear. so others would be less fearful. diana i'd to ask you next again. so myra has elevated our understanding of how extraordinary this was. be

came to visit that day as mother was leaving that afternoon one evening to go check herself into bethesda. and lucy said, i don't know why your mother just have somebody else. let us see the white house, because it's a real privilege to go back to the house and see the house after you've left. i've only been once and then allowed to go upstairs to my bedroom and see my bedroom of what it looks like now, who knows what it looks like now? but anyway, you don't normally to go upstairs into the family and so we were letting lucy and linda see their old rooms and and all of that and they unaware that mother was headed to bethesda naval hospital that afternoon, which i'm sure patty involved in right in that press release. and said to me, she goes, your mother was so gracious because she could have, you know, and said, but lucy, you and i now know how special it is to go back to the house. and why would my mother take that away from you. and and your mother. because it's unique experience and because my mother, lady bird, were also long time dear friends and had worked their husbands and worked

came to visit that day as mother was leaving that afternoon one evening to go check herself into bethesda. and lucy said, i don't know why your mother just have somebody else. let us see the white house, because it's a real privilege to go back to the house and see the house after you've left. i've only been once and then allowed to go upstairs to my bedroom and see my bedroom of what it looks like now, who knows what it looks like now? but anyway, you don't normally to go upstairs into the family and so we were letting lucy and linda see their old rooms and and all of that and they unaware that mother was headed to bethesda naval hospital that afternoon, which i'm sure patty involved in right in that press release. and said to me, she goes, your mother was so gracious because she could have, you know, and said, but lucy, you and i now know how special it is to go back to the house. and why would my mother take that away from you. and and your mother. because it's unique experience and because my mother, lady bird, were also long time dear friends and had worked their husbands and worked

came to visit that day as mother was leaving that afternoon one evening to go check herself into bethesda. and lucy said, i don't know why your mother just have somebody else. let us see the white house, because it's a real privilege to go back to the house and see the house after you've left. i've only been once and then allowed to go upstairs to my bedroom and see my bedroom of what it looks like now, who knows what it looks like now? but anyway, you don't normally to go upstairs into the family and so we were letting lucy and linda see their old rooms and and all of that and they unaware that mother was headed to bethesda naval hospital that afternoon, which i'm sure patty involved in right in that press release. and said to me, she goes, your mother was so gracious because she could have, you know, and said, but lucy, you and i now know how special it is to go back to the house. and why would my mother take that away from you. and and your mother. because it's unique experience and because my mother, lady bird, were also long time dear friends and had worked their husbands and worked

advisor with of the chief the army reserve as well as seeing patients at walter reed medical center in bethesdae congressman has a wife and they reside with their two children. welcome. [applause] thank you for that kind introduction. i am thrilled to be here and the work taking place here at heritage, and i also want to say that i agree the way to do this is in a nonpartisan fashion and it's been conducted that way. i can tell you between me as chairman and my staff, the staff that works very diligently, we don't mention political party. and when we've been doing our investigation and looking for the facts of what took place and i'm happy to say some of the people you are going to hear from today have been in front of our committee, and i'm grateful to them for their willingness to come in and work with us. there has been so much to do with this but it's been very interesting because as i go back to april of 2023, the chinese embassy sent a letter reaching out to express their concern regarding the origins hearing and said they firmly oppose it but as you might imagine, we went ahead anyway. t

katie ledecky swimming and i'm from bethesda, maryland. the most dominant swimmer in the world. no one else is close. katie ledecky will win her third straight olympic gold in the women's 800 free, sixth individual gold for ledecky, the most of any female swimmer in olympic history. the training that you have to do to be this good for this long, what's a day like for katie? walk us through it. well, i train a lot, so most mornings i'm up at 5:00 and i have practice from 6 to 8. then i'll have weights from 830 to about ten. i'll grab breakfast, i'll take a nap, have lunch, go to my second practice at 2 or 3 and swim for another two hours, make myself dinner, do whatever i have to do and get to bed so i can do it again the next day. every day at practice, it's something different. we're all working really, really hard and pushing each other, but we can, you know, jab at each other or joke with each other and push each other in that way, in a fun way. you got to be careful that you don't laugh too hard sometimes with everything that's going on, but i wouldn't want to have it any ot

bethesda and you and you. no, that's my favorite part of the the the newspaper, frankly. well, i mean, if they had said yes, boy or gaithersburg. that's right. and anybody have other questions. yes. first of all, thank you for being here. and thank you for sharing your stories. i'm sure we all appreciate that because you're you're an optimist. i'm curious from and because you've covered the world, what world leader do you do you admire that we as a group wouldn't necessarily know of. so you know i look at leaders who use their voices for causes that don't get enough attention and i mean, in the in the u.s. senate, i think -- does a fantastic job of that. i've i had this fondness for some british prime ministers who gordon brown has been working girls education all over the world in the sudan and so on. and it's just i girls education is one of the one of the ways in which you transform countries. one of the things we know how to do has its enormous impact. and so i've admired that chris patten in britain, the former governor of hong kong, then he was head of the european

the chief of the army reserve as well as seeing patients at walter reed medical military center in bethesda. congressman has a wife monica and they reside in ohio with her two children. welcome, congressman. [applause] of those from the who from visiting china, they suppress information to hide their involvement and hide information in the covid origin story. it would really help if we had sequences, samples, lab books, those things that we should be when i took over we were aware, they had researchers that became sick with covid-like symptoms in 2019 and they deleted important sequences and changed control at the lab of the institute of virology and they had a contractor reworking their ventilation system in their lab which tells us something. we've had some success in receive realing a lot of facts behind the scenes, if you will, dr. peter who was before us with ait transcribed interview and wh an open hearing and then we looked into his emails and -- and g mails and as a result of our findings, nih has debarred echo health alliance from ever getting any funding and remember they were doi

ricky, from delaware, and they met at a gas station in bethesda, maryland outside the nation's capital he needed to turn into doug. his clothing, cell phones, keys to his car and apartment at a credit card. >> this is the parking space area for i met with doug stewart. >> where did you go? >> i drove to virginia. >> where did doug tell you he was going? >> to michigan. >> what was he going to do there? >> he did not say kill his wife, but he said take care of business up in michigan. but i knew what he meant. >> sure enough, surveillance camera pictures taken april 15th to show ricky easing into doug's life in newport news. he parked in doug's garage as instructed, and hung out in doug's apartment. >> this is between 10:00 and 11:00. there is a newspaper sticking out of my pocket. >> with doug's credit card, ricky had bought a cheeseburger and fries at wendy's. >> why did he want you to use the credit card there? >> to make it look like he was in virginia. >> somewhere deep down, prosecutors wondered, did ricky, a little slow on the uptake, think that this was all pretend? >> don't loo