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October 13, 1973: Gerald Ford is nominated Vice President...
...GERALD FORD After decades of criticism, receives Profile in Courage Award for pardoning Nixon...
DIED. PHILIP W. BUCHEN, 85, scholarly lawyer and presidential adviser; in Washington. Buchen led a secret group in 1974 that spent three months developing a plan under which his old friend and law partner, Vice President Gerald Ford, would assume the presidency if Nixon were to resign. Ford had no idea the plan existed. Appointed counsel to the new President, Buchen advised him on the controversial Nixon pardon. "I could see that he had already made up his mind," Buchen said later, "and it was my job to find out how he could do it, rather than whether he should...
...Kidman found her singing voice quickly ("there was a real sweetness of tone from the outset," says musical director Marius De Vries), but her dancing was sometimes more Gerald Ford than Ginger Rogers. During rehearsal, Kidman broke a rib and spent weeks recovering at home in Sydney. While Cruise tended to her ("he was very good to me," she says), Kidman spent the downtime on her sofa rehearsing songs. Near the end of production, she tore cartilage in her knee while shooting the Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend number...
...savor the festival. In this year's concert series, which runs from June 22 through July 8, Rilling explores the theme "Seasons of Life" with works by Bach, Brahms, Verdi, Vivaldi and Faure. Also on the schedule are concerts for kids with stories by Dr. Seuss (Gertrude McFuzz and Gerald McBoing Boing) set to music and a free workshop for high school vocalists called Hands On, Shoes Off, led by Bobby McFerrin...