Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a last, 20-lap swim in the pool of his Alexandria, Va., home on Monday morning-soon afterward, the Fords moved into the White House-the President began his exhausting week. He flew to Chicago aboard Air Force One to address the Veterans of Foreign Wars. It was Ford's first out-of-town trip as President, and he and his wife Betty were greeted at Chicago's O'Hare Airport with a flubbed announcement. "Ladies and gentlemen," a voice intoned over the airport's loudspeakers, "the President of the United States and Mrs. Nixon...
...stunned the vets and the nation. But why? Because the absence of simple decency in his predecessor had become an accepted condition of our national life. There is no other logical answer to the amnesty problem for a man who the Sunday before sat in his small church in Alexandria, Va., believing in the words of the old hymn he sang: "Blessings abound where'er he reigns;/ The prisoner leaps to loose his chains;/ The weary find eternal rest,/ And all the sons of want are blest...
...Warner Mills Alexandria...
...living in the White House will change the Fords' lives. "I'll never throw away my blue jeans," she vows. She is also determined to continue to baby-sit for the family of Congressional Aide Peter Abbruzzese, which lives across the street from the Ford home in Alexandria. In fact, says Susan, she told Mrs. Abbruzzese, who is expecting her third child, "that when she goes to the hospital to have that kid, she should drop her other two at the White House and I'll take care of them. That will take some of the stuffiness...
...Ford will probably preserve a certain independence from the fellowship, despite his close friends in it and the likelihood that his weekly prayer meetings will somehow go on. A lifelong Episcopalian, Ford will continue to worship whenever he can in his "home parish," Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill in Alexandria, Va. Though Ford may get a relatively liberal slant on religion from Immanuel's rector, the Rev. William L. Dols Jr., he gets a fundamentalist pitch at home in Michigan. There he has nurtured a close friendship with the Rev. Billy Zeoli, an evangelical minister who is head...