that is the betty ford candor.hat is what he treasured. >> i think her input was very important in that same way, what she thought about the nixon pardon. and how she said, you know, if we do not do this, the country is going to continue. >> she had tried unsuccessfully to get a woman on the supreme court, but she did get a woman on the cabinet. we know from her own words that she was a significant lobbyist. that is the first job of the first lady in the modern era. >> you made reference when we talked about eleanor roosevelt about her command of all of the media available at the time. the dawn of the 20th century. we will listen to hoover making radio remarks about this. what i want to do is use this as a launching pad to talk about the media and how it changed and how it changed the world. listen. [audio clip] >> i am very glad. [indiscernible] >> this is a first, the first time america saw and heard a sitting first lady, so there we have the film, and as the century progressed, radios and television, and today t

when darlene's multiple calls to betty ford executives went unreturned. again, she reached out to bethany's counselor. >> she said, well you know, i don't know if you have seen the news, but we are trying to merge with hazelton. so we are trying to keep this under wraps. and i said, that's not really my concern. my concern is my daughter. >> eventually, darlene exchanged e-mails with betty ford's then c.e.o. we take your concerns very seriously, he wrote. we will conduct an investigation into this situation. >> i was told by a couple different people that i spoke to that there had been at least three that were let go. that were directly involved. >> but the betty ford center never notified her formally. the facility simply fedexed her a full refund for bethany's ten- day stay. >> i never thought would i have expected that. i knew of the reputation, that's why she was there. >> the betty ford center responded in an e-mail, noting the facility has zero tolerance for drug use on campus. had a very small number of patients trying to get drugs on campus during

lindsay needs her adderall and betty ford is saying no. why would you want your add rat when the only drug you should be allowed in rehab is caffeine in coffee and nicotine from the cigarettes, outside, by the way. and don't put your butts in the bushes. but the good news for the family is that the rehab center wants to have counseling with the whole family. so betty ford wants her parents to participate in family therapy and dina lohan says she's not going to do it until michael -- not until he pays her the child support that he owes. she said that and michael turned around and wrote that check, $30,000! [ cheers and applause ] $30,000 michael has paid his child support. so the whole family is going to participate in getting lind say well, which is terrific. and there's just one other thing besides the jonesing for adderall that concerns me about her being in rehab and that is that she's got a familiar face just down the hall. it's charlie sheen's ex, brooke mueller, who is also in betty ford at this particular time. this is broo's 20th t

that moment, that morning, nobody ever thought there would be something called the betty ford center or any of that. we were strictly fighting to get our mom back, fighting -- dad was fighting to get his wife back. to see the other side of that months, years later, for her, after she had had sobe bright for a while, felt comfortable enough to put her name on a treatment center, to see that treatment center today is probably i think about 90,000 people have gone through there, nonprofit, and her mission of affordable health for those who need it to transform their lives to get healthy, to get sober. she was very proud of that. >> that clip in a nutshell sums up the difference one of the real differences between the 19th century and the 20th century can you imagine having that degree of intimacy, that degree of knowledge of the intimate life of a first lady of a presidential family of projecting it into millions of homes, of having millions of people care? i mean, that connection that the media allows to happen, the emotional bond, adulation, and its opposite, are something that were a

depending on if they win or lose, if we are betty ford -- better than the yankees, that is what up -- all i have asked for. >> it is good. couplen pick up a players in the off-season to finish out their rotation. >> we will send it back. >> thank you. still ahead, more than years before the last olympics game. olympians are revving up. the journey of the olympic torch is straight ahead. the government may have known about the attacks that killed nearly seven people. the newest unanswered questions >> more questions than answers. the government might have known about the mall attack before it happened. with a death toll of 67 and nine people in custody, they want to know what could have stopped it. details as we cover the world. >> more than a week, the start of a deadly rampage. remain notons answered. today, the minister of interior address the public during a briefing, giving an update. the death toll remains at 61 civilians, as well as six forces. the number of possible terrorists detained is now nine. >> one arrested today. >> three others detained were released after they were pr

i am very acting with the betty ford center. -- active with the betty ford center. very successful. we celebrated our 15th anniversary and at that time, we through33,000 people go the betty ford center program. [applause] only 19 thousand of those were in patients. we do not have any beds. our program is extended for families, children who are ,iving in alcoholic situations and consequently that means they are there as outpatients and we have an outpatient treatment program. women, ment we treat thomas and families -- men, and families and we really feel we give them the most excellent with thisto work disease. one of the important things for family andbuild the send them back, and a healthy condition. instead of rebuilding houses like you and jimmy are, we are building families. one of the most important programs for us right now is our children's program for the youngsters from 7-12 who are living in homes where alcohol and other drugs are abused. these children are very withdrawn and they act out. they are very unhappy. dwell on the family illness and not concent

morning,nt, that nobody ever thought there'd be something called the betty ford center. to get strictly fighting our mom back. dad was fighting to get his wife back, so to see the other side of that, months, years later, for her after she had had sobriety for a while, sold comfortable enough to put her name on a treatment center and to see that treatment center today, about 90,000 people have gone through their. nonprofit. her mission of affordable health for those who needed to transform their lives, to get healthy, to get sober, she was very proud of that. a nutshell, that sums up one of the real differences the 19th century and the 20th century. thatou imagine having degree of intimacy, that degree of knowledge of the intimate life of a first lady of a presidential family, projecting it into millions of homes, having millions of people care? that connection that the media allows to happen, the emotional adulation, and the foreign toomething the 19th century. >> you also listen to that, and we are reminded that we talk about these folks who are enormous public figures,

. >> up next on the heels of our investigation of the drug dealing at the betty ford center. a former patient reveals how the drugs get inside. that story is >>> only on 9 tonight, a rare glimpse of what is going on at some of the rehab facilities. >> speak publicly for the first time about the drug use they witnessed in treatment. and as andrea mccarren tells us, they reveal some of the unusual and extraordinary ways that addicts will smuggle them in. >> i'm mortified it has taken this long. >> audrey hope, a veteran addiction counselor that worked with celebrity clients and big name treatment facilities. she says state inspectors, at least in california, are simply too lax. >> they went once to check on someone in the rehab i worked with. he said i didn't do it and they left. >> addicts she says will do just about anything to get their fix. >> they urinate for each other. they go to head shots and buy apparatuses that make it look like it is their urine. >> and andrea mccarren will have more and the other secrets from inside the rehab center coming your way tonight on wusa9

. >> many of you in this room probably him best from facilities as the betty ford clinic and los angeleswney jr. >> it was mild ribbing of some of the most famous people in the world. it wasn't a room full of juaned soldiers. >> reporter: if anybody can take it, they should. >> i think they did. i don't think those people went home crying about shall little, you know, upstart brit making fun of their film. the other thing is even if they did, you know, you make a decision, do i pound the 200 egos in the room or the 200 mill job people watching at room. >> reporter: ricky gervais doesn't do pampering. he says his stubbornness comes from being a late bloomer. success didn't come until his late 30s. by which time he and his long-time partner the author jane fallon decided not to have children because, he says, he was afraid they would turn out like him. his musical tribute to the unloved english town where "the office" is set, the british equivalent of the u.s. office at scranton, pennsylvania. ♪ don't listen to what the critics say ♪ it's boring and gray ♪ >> reporter: it's become a youtub

i still couldn't sleep and ended up in betty ford. >> is the insomnia a recent thing?billy crystal doesn't seem to have time for sleep. he's one of the biggest entertainers of a generation, actor, director and author of a new book about being 65. >> when you're 65, you're surprised by what now turns you on. you look at dame edna and you think... [laughter] >> this routine at new york university was actually a recording session for the audio version of "still fooling 'em," crystal's take on getting old, not always gracefully. >> during the past year, i saw my dermatologist more than i saw my grandkids. my ass looks like the bottom of a boat. i don't shower anymore. i'm sandblasted twice a week. >> the book is part comedy, part memoir, the same mix that won crystal a 2005 tony award for his one-man show "700 sundays," based on his memories of growing up in long island, new york. >> sundays was our day to go toe boardwalk or play baseball or even go to a broadway show. on sunday night we went out because on sunday night jews are not allowed to eat their own food. oh, no,

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. >> betty ford. >> and decided just to be herself. and on the one hand, the good gray political establishment -- one way of looking at 20th century first ladies is the tensions between the east wing and the west wing. sometimes it's a creative tension, sometimes it's a little more overtly hostile. but she -- this was at a time when ford was facing a challenge from the right from ronald reagan and the conventionly minded in the white house, which is usually a majority, thought that she was stepping over the line. and they were in for a surprise to realize that while they weren't paying any attention, the coats had changed all around them. >> and betty had a huge following. particularly among women, for being as outspoken as she was, on women's issues. >> speaking about spoken. i am thinking about several instances with barbara bush which her personality, which was to say what she thought, she really did seem to say, so what. catri 's a self-depp streak which works maybe better in the white house than anywhere. there's a famous line in