Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. When Gerald Ford became president after Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974, he proclaimed himself "indebted to no man ...

Before President Gerald R. Ford and his first lady, Betty, there was another prominent Ford duo making impressions in Michigan. Emma and Joe Ford, a trailblazing Black couple, defied the odds during ...

Betty Ford, the widow of former President Gerald Ford, has died at 93 in southern California. The political matriarch became as famous for her work with drug and alcohol addicts as for her status as a ...

Sunday, April 8 would have been Betty Ford's 100th birthday. The former first lady died at the age of 93 in 2011, but her legacy lives on. Betty Ford spent her life in politics, raising awareness ...