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Wednesday morning Ford underwent his semiannual physical examination, and White House Physician Dr. William Lukash pronounced him in "excellent health." Later, to celebrate her husband's 63rd birthday, Betty Ford took him to the posh French restaurant Sans Souci. The rare public lunch proved to be a huge headache for the Secret Service but a field day for reporters (four of them feasted at a nearby table). Ford downed two martinis and a chefs salad; his wife sipped gin-and-tonics and ate Dover sole. The tab came to $25.36, and Betty Ford picked...
...tour guide was Rear Admiral William Lukash, the President's genial doctor. His seven-page report covering Ford's annual physical was given out in all its glorious detail. Dr. Lukash had opposed release; Ford ordered it done. As a matter of fact, after one gets through Ford's postnasal drip and a severe cramp in his left calf, the report turns out to be one of the best documents recently issued from the White House. Ford is in bully health...
Step Aside. Finally Hathaway told President Ford that he felt ill and had lost 15 lbs. He offered to resign. Ford brushed the suggestion aside, proposing instead that Hathaway see Rear Admiral William Lukash, the President's personal physician. After an examination, Lukash promptly ordered the Interior Secretary into Bethesda Naval Medical Center. From there last week came word that Hathaway was suffering from exhaustion and "reactive depression" (for which psychiatric care has been prescribed). He also has a mild case of diabetes, which will require no insulin, only dietary control...
William M. Lukash...
Some of his aides were miffed, but not Ford. He returned to the family quarters in the White House, gratefully accepted a sleeping pill from his physician, Dr. William Lukash, and sank into bed exhausted...