Gerald R. Ford
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Seaborg introducing Vice President Ford at the World Future Society, 1974 |
I knew Gerald Ford during all of the period I was in Washington. He was in the House of Representatives. And then, of course, he was chosen to be Vice-President. Here I am introducing him at a meeting of the World Future Society in April, 1974, just a couple of months before Richard Nixon resigned and Gerald Ford became President. I have one interesting story about Gerald Ford. We were at a dinner once, one of these dinners that you always have in Washington, sitting at the head table, very restless. Turned out that it was the night that my alma mater, UCLA, was playing his alma mater, University of Michigan, in the finals of the NCAA basketball. We stole away from the table, went up to a room, watched the thing on TV. Of course he was sort of squirming all the time. I felt pretty confident. UCLA beat Michigan. I, of course, tried to console him. Then we went back down and took our place at the head table, and nobody had missed us.
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Betty Ford, 1985 |
Here we have Betty Ford getting a Golden Plate Award at the American Academy of Achievement dinner in Denver in 1985, one of the chances I had to meet her.
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Nelson Rockefeller speaking at Dwinelle Plaza, 1960 |
Nelson Rockefeller was the Vice-President under Ford. I had met him previously when I was Chancellor at Berkeley, when we had him come to address us during the Presidential campaign of 1960. Here's my son Peter sitting in the front there. This is at Dwinell Plaza on the campus.