Betty Ford
Betty Ford was the wife of U.S.
President Gerald Ford and First Lady from 1974 to 1977.
She became known for her candor about breast cancer, addiction, and women's rights.
The Betty Ford Center, a substance abuse treatment facility she co-founded in 1982, made her name synonymous with addiction recovery: He checked into Betty Ford after his relapse.
Recovery from injury/addiction
- sobrietyUnimpaired mental state
- alcoholismAddiction to drinking
- treatmentCare for an ailment
- addictionCompulsive substance reliance
therapy · 12-step · detoxification · substance abuse · intervention · counseling · healing · support groups
- opennessQuality of being accessible
- public disclosureRevealing information openly
- destigmatizationRemoving social shame
- candorUnguarded truthfulness
transparency · testimony · public speaking · awareness campaigns · mental health advocacy · influence · leadership · fundraising
Official presidential residence
- RepublicanGOP party member
- 1970sFourth decade, twentieth century
- state dinnersFormal governmental diplomatic meals
- diplomacyNegotiation between nations
protocol · Nixon pardon · Camp David · bicentennial · 60 Minutes · public image · modernization
Pitcher effectiveness statistic
- Equal Rights AmendmentProposed constitutional sex-equality guarantee
- reproductive rightsBodily autonomy in family planning
- abortion rightsFreedom to terminate pregnancy
- Roe v Wade1973 reproductive rights decision
women's liberation · gender equality · pro-choice · feminist · Title IX · equal pay · glass ceiling · women's movement
rehabilitation
Recovery from injury/addiction
- sobrietyUnimpaired mental state
- alcoholismAddiction to drinking
- treatmentCare for an ailment
addiction · therapy · 12-step · detoxification · substance abuse · intervention · counseling · healing · support groups · abstinence
breast cancer awareness
- opennessQuality of being accessible
- public disclosureRevealing information openly
- destigmatizationRemoving social shame
candor · transparency · testimony · public speaking · awareness campaigns · mental health advocacy · influence · leadership · fundraising · philanthropy
White House
Official presidential residence
- RepublicanGOP party member
- 1970sFourth decade, twentieth century
- state dinnersFormal governmental diplomatic meals
diplomacy · protocol · Nixon pardon · Camp David · bicentennial · 60 Minutes · public image · modernization
ERA
Pitcher effectiveness statistic
- Equal Rights AmendmentProposed constitutional sex-equality guarantee
- reproductive rightsBodily autonomy in family planning
- abortion rightsFreedom to terminate pregnancy
Roe v Wade · women's liberation · gender equality · pro-choice · feminist · Title IX · equal pay · glass ceiling · women's movement · political activism
- First LadiesMartha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, Mary Todd Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt
- West MichiganGrand Rapids, Muskegon, Holland, Kalamazoo, Lake Michigan
- Feministsfeminist, suffragist, suffragette, Gloria Steinem, Susan B. Anthony