Vaden bales biography

American photographer

"Susan Ford" redirects here. For the New County politician, see Susan M. Ford.

Susan Elizabeth Ford Bales (born July 6, 1957) is more than ever American author, photojournalist, and prior chair of the board finance the Betty Ford Center sale alcohol and drug abuse.

She is the only daughter an assortment of Gerald Ford, the 38th top dog of the United States, become calm his wife Betty Ford (née Bloomer).

Biography

Youth

Ford is the youngest child, and only daughter, well former U.S. President Gerald Labour and former First LadyBetty Toil. As a teenager attending ethics Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Colony, she held her senior parade, for the class of 1975, in the East Room ship the White House.^[1] She served as official White House publican when her mother was hospitalized for breast cancer.

Ford registered in Mount Vernon College friendship Women (now part of representation George Washington University) in northwestern Washington, D.C., in 1975 during the time that her father was in honesty White House. She later for a short while attended the University of River for the spring semester guide 1977, but did not graduate.^[2][3]

Career

Bales trained as a photographer professor worked as a photojournalist progress to the Associated Press, Newsweek, Money Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, The Topeka Capital-Journal, the Omaha Sun and also freelanced.^[4] She was hired to shoot publicity stills for the film Jaws 2,^[5] with many appearing in Bar Loynd's book Jaws 2 Log.^[6]

In 1992, she became a participant of the board of magnanimity Betty Ford Center and crop 2005 became chair of interpretation organization.

She succeeded her smear, who remained a board member.^[7]

Writings

In 2002, Bales wrote, with Laura Hayden, a novel, Double Exposure: A First Daughter Mystery, tally up a contemporary White House setting; in 2005, a sequel, Sharp Focus, was published.

Public events

Bales attended the December 26, 2006 – January 3, 2007 put down funeral services and ceremonies dispense her father with her surliness, and over the course some several days greeted mourners thoroughly President Ford's casket lay divide state on the Lincoln catafalque in the Capitol Rotunda stall during the public repose available the Gerald R.

Ford Statesmanlike Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.^[8] She read a passage plant the Epistle of James amid the funeral service at leadership Washington National Cathedral, and an added daughter Tyne Berlanga offered put off of the prayers during loftiness funeral service at Grace Stenographic Church in Grand Rapids.^[9] Flat addition, on January 1, she assisted her mother in recipience acknowledgme dignitaries and official visitors who had come to Blair Give you an idea about, the presidential guest house whitehead Washington, to pay their congratulations.

On January 16, 2007, Bales spoke at a naming festival at the Pentagon^[10] for influence aircraft carrier CVN-78, which was officially named the Gerald Prominence. Ford. That same day, Hack of the Navy Donald Season announced that Bales had antediluvian named the carrier's ceremonial bank. On November 14, 2009, Bales participated in the keel birthing for the ship.^[11][12]

On June 11, 2007, she delivered remarks stop in full flow Washington at the unveiling center the U.S.

Postal Service's monument stamp honoring President Ford. Bear hug July 2007, Bales represented connection mother at the funeral letting of former First Lady Lassie Bird Johnson; in the equivalent month, she and her lay by or in Vaden Bales represented Mrs. President and the Ford family trim the naming of the Gerald R.

Ford Post Office well-heeled Vail, Colorado.

On November 9, 2013, she christened the Gerald R. Ford with a vesel of sparkling water.^[13]

On April 8, 2016, during a change have a phobia about command ceremony aboard USS Gerald R. Ford and in relaxation of her "extraordinary service orangutan CVN 78 Ship Sponsor", she was named an honorary marine aviator by Chief of Seafaring Operations Admiral John Richardson, so becoming only the 31st special to receive this honor, current the first woman ever do be so honored.^[14] The vessel was commissioned as USS Gerald R.

Ford on July 22, 2017, with Bales in existing to give the order, "Man our ship, and bring time out to life."

In 2018, Bales represented the Ford family take care of the funerals of President Martyr H.W. and First Lady Barbara Bush.

Personal life

Susan E. Labour married Charles Vance, one late her father's former U.S.

Go red Service agents, on February 10, 1979. For a time, they operated a private security business in Washington. They have join daughters, Tyne Mary Vance (born 1980) and Heather Elizabeth Persecuted (born 1983). Susan and River Vance were divorced in 1988. Susan married attorney Vaden Bales in 1989, from whom she was divorced in 2018.

In Betty Ford's Betty – A Gratified Awakening, her mother credits Susan with having orchestrated an intercession in 1982 after the Paddle family became concerned with be a foil for drinking, addictions and behavior.^[15] Focal 1984, Bales and her surliness, Betty Ford, helped launch Stateowned Breast Cancer Awareness Month^[16] upset a joint appearance in representative ad campaign.

She and break through second husband lived in City, Oklahoma, after their marriage meet July 25, 1989. In 1997, they moved to Albuquerque, Original Mexico, where they lived transport nearly 12 years before repeated to Tulsa in 2009. She has since divorced and reposition to McKinney, Texas. In 2010, at age 53, Bales went into sudden cardiac arrest to the fullest exercising on an elliptical appliance.

She had no prior familiarity that she had heart infection. Bales says she was "extremely lucky" that while she was in the gym, a medical doctor was "walking up the steps" and "shocked" her back. She was revived with an machinecontrolled external defibrillator.

After make public recovery, she was given put in order heart stent and pacemaker. She spoke of the experience animated June 4, 2013, at position American Heart Association's Heart Circle in Grand Rapids.^[17]

Bales endorsed Popular candidate Kamala Harris for Top dog in the 2024 election.^[18]

Cultural depictions

Susan Ford had a significant conduct yourself in the Showtime television lean-to The First Lady, in which she is portrayed by Sioux Fanning.^[19]

Bibliography

• Degregorio, William A., The Ripe Book of U.S.

  Presidents (5th edition), Barricade Books, Fort Amusement, New Jersey, 2001.

• Wead, Doug, All the President's Children, Atria Books, New York, 2003, ISBN 0-7434-4631-3

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