the one commonality that the children at therapeutic school and the professionals at the betty ford center had in common was no clue about feelings and how to be aware of their feelings and how to address them. what mr. dierck has done is one of the things that we as educators, it's the one thing we have missed. it's the absolutely one thing we missed to teach our children to recognize and be aware of their own feelings and work with children with similar feelings. we can teach them all the math. we don't have clue one to teach them how to feel and express it appropriately. it's the same thing i start with in in-patient or out-patient. how do you feel and how do you express that. the sel is very important. social, emotional learning. one is illinois, they have laid out an entire track. the teachers have to be taught before they graduate and become certified. and texas just recently passed the law, every middle school and high school student has to go 3 anger management and emotional training before they leave school. what makes more sense? how do live with yourself and others at the same t

we also send other love and respect to first lady betty ford.at debt of gratitude for her role as first lady but well beyond that, affecting the lives of millions of americans. please extend our respects to your mom whfment we unveil a statue, governor snyder, it's always a special occasion for us in the capital. but when it happens to be one who has served in the congress, that is a rarity and a president who has served in the congress as gets pretty personal as well. because as president we come together here to honor the character, the courage, the civility of a former proud member of the house of representatives and, indeed again, former minority leader, president ford. president ford's leadership in the house is marked by fair and reliable leadership. he was effective and respected by both parties. respect on both sides of the aisle, always bipartisan in his approach. or as he himself said, i have had a lot of adversaries in my political life but no enemies that i can remember. in 2001, president ford was awarded the john f. kennedy profile

we also send our love and respect to first lady betty ford.ion owes her a great debt of gratitude for her role as first lady, but well beyond that affecting the lives millions of americans. please extend our respects to your mom. when we unveil a statue, governor snyder, it is always a special occasion for us in the capitol, but when it happens to be one of one who has served in the congress, that is a rarity. a president who has served in the congress, that gets pretty personal as well. because we come together here to honor the character, courage, and civility of a former proud member of the house of representatives -- indeed, again, a former minority leader -- president ford. president ford's leadership in the house was marked by fair and reliable leadership. he was effective and respected on both sides of the aisle -- always bipartisan in his approach. or as he said himself, "i have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that i can remember." in 2001, president ford was awarded the john f. kennedy profile in courage

some of you may recall there was a campaign button back in the time of betty ford. it said, i'm voting for bodies has been. all of a sudden there were buttons that said i'm voting for barbara's husband. as the campaign continued on mr. bush is using phrases like barbara and i think where barbara and i believe. by the way, that is a strategy that other presidents have used as well. when he eventually got the republican nomination barbara was worried. they had already had to surmount a primary challenge from patrick buchanan and h. ross perot. they were also taking a fair amount of heat for mr. bush's appointment to the supreme court of clarence thomas. says she had a certain amount of concern. then came the clintons. things with the plans started out on kind of a strange footing the magazine concocted what became known as the great cookie controversy. some of you, i can see nodding your has remember this. the question was, who baked the better chocolate chip cookies. was it barbara bush or was it hillary clinton? hillary consort of dismissed this and said to live too

buttressed by the indomitable betty, gerald ford exuded it serenity in a tumultuous time.tored confidence to a battered society. gerald ford overcame a vast array of international challenges. i will mention just a few. in his presidency, the first political agreement was negotiated between israel and egypt which led to a peace agreement to years later. the european security conference, whose establishment of international recognized human standards hastened the collapse of the soviet satellite orbits. the initiative to bring a majority rule to southern africa. the creation of the international energy agency, which still foster's cooperation among all oil consuming nations. the annual economic summits among the cooperation of the industrial economies which remains a core element of the international dialogue. few will dispute that the cold war could not have been one have not gerald ford emerged as a tragic time in our history to restore our faith in ourselves. in office only 29 months, and gerald ford left with no regrets, no second guessing of his successes, no obsessive

imagined some kind of riotous drunk who suddenly woke up and thought, you know, i've got to get to the betty fordclinic or something or else my life's over. it doesn't really come across that way. it doesn't seem to me to be a dreadful problem that gripped you, not certainly in the likes of charlie sheen or somebody. and yet to you clearly you felt you had lost control. >> that's right. i couldn't stop. and it scared me to death. i never was doing any public drinking particularly. >> no. >> but all through my 20s i worked nightclubs with my partner, and i didn't drink. a teetotaler. in my early 30s i was always kind of shy, and i found that a drink, my inhibitions would fall a little bit and i became more garrulous and enjoyed it. and i would use that and have a couple of martinis. it slowly went into four or five. then i found myself waking up with a slight hangover and tried to stop it and could not. and i had to go for help. >> how bad was it at its worst for you? >> having a hangover so bad that i could hardly -- shaking, splitting headaches. and having to go to work. >> how much would you be

>> the week before, i went to betty ford in december of '09 i was so angry with it all, i got a new managerd we first have to look back. it's hard to believe someone called the demon of screaming honed his hard rock musicality in new hampshire where he met his band meats. tyler says "dream on" came to him like a piece of divine inspiration 37 years ago. think of the lyrics of that song. that's a guy looking back over the vast terrain of his life. here you are a 26-year-old kid. it seems like it couldn't come from you. tell me about that song. >> i wrote that song and i'm sitting up at the barn and i'm like -- ♪ >> you know, i'm loving that melodic stuff. it's growing through me. i don't know where it came from. ♪ every time that i look in the mirror ♪ ♪ all these lines on my face getting clearer ♪ >> here's the best part. ♪ the past is gone ♪ in my life like dusk to dawn ♪ isn't that the way ♪ everybody got -- >> this was just that melody which told my mouth, touched something in my brain that made my mouth sing that. every time i look in the mirror. >> do you have a lighter i can hold up?