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Betty Ford [videorecording] : the real deal / writer, producer, director, Mary Beth Durkin ; executive producer Susan L. Mills ; [produced by McNeil/Lehrer Productions]

[Alexandria, Va.?] : McNeil/Lehrer Productions : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2009.

1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col., b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Documentary portrait of Betty Ford, one of the most influential modern first ladies, drawn from an interview by presidential historian Michael Beschloss. Additional interviews with the Ford family, friends and historians and photos, home movies, film from the White House years and new material shot at the Betty Ford Center and around her home in Rancho Mirage, California. Highlights include her support of the Equal Rights Amendment, abortion rights and her battle with drug and alcohol addiction which led to the founding of the Betty Ford Center in California.

Ford, Betty, 1918-2011.

Presidents' spouses -- United States.

Nonfiction films.

Documentary films.

Biographical films.

Alexander, Jane, 1939-

Durkin, Mary Beth.

Mills, Susan L.

Quesada, Virginia.

Beschloss, Michael R.

McNeil/Lehrer Productions.

PBS Home Video.

Editor, Virginia Quesada.

Jane Alexander, narrator.

DVD ; widescreen ; stereo.

Close-captioned.

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