Word: lukashism
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Variety in view and routine is a relaxant. Ford now has an informal office just beyond the Oval Office. Unlike Nixon, this President frequently takes off his coat and works in shirtsleeves. His pipe is handy and in constant use. White House Physician William Lukash believes such little things reduce tedium and tension. Ford likes movies at night but sometimes flakes out. He fell asleep during a screening of The Sugarland Express but stayed the distance for Chinatown. There is an effort to introduce soothing potions of humor in the daily rituals. When Hollywood's gorgeous Candice Bergen...
...celebrated former college football center in the history of the sport is still a man who craves exercise, and he had trained for his annual assault on Vail like the seasoned athlete he is. For two months he patiently followed a diet-and-exercise program prescribed by Dr. William Lukash, the White House physician. He got his weight down from 206 Ibs. to 195 Ibs., and he worked hard to correct his special weakness-his knees. Surgeons have operated on both to remove cartilage damaged during his football wars...
...meeting was adjourned, Ford briefly attended a White House reception for conference delegates and then departed for the hospital. When he arrived, Mrs. Ford was having a dinner of steak and French fries while chatting with Susan, the Fords' eldest son Michael, some aides and Dr. William Lukash, the White House physician. Said the President: "It looks like you're having a party here." Ford joked that his wife was faring much better in her spacious suite than he had two years before when he came to the hospital to have doctors mend an old football injury...
Later Navy Captain William Fouty, who is chief of surgery at the hospital, assured Ford that the operation had gone very well. Dr. Lukash told reporters: "Throughout this ordeal, Mrs. Ford exhibited an atmosphere of confidence and demonstrated an inner strength that sustained not only her family and close staff but also the doctors...
...juice, sliced melon, tea and English muffins piping hot, margarined and ready to be marmaladed. (Last week's presidential muffin-toasting performance was a special show put on in response to numerous requests by photographers.) A man of enormous energy and appetite, Ford nevertheless sticks strictly to Dr. Lukash's regimen, even manfully downing the Nixonian lunch of cottage cheese (Chef Haller says that the President has never been seen to cascade catsup on the curds), washed down with tea and lemon...