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...Fords seem completely at ease among the caviar-and-crepe set. They have been making Vail their vacation home since 1969, and four years ago bought a three-bedroom condominium above the village. Every winter, when Washington turns gray and damp, Ford looks forward impatiently to getting back to the powdery snow and thin, crisp...
...four Ford children joined their parents for the holiday. On Christmas Eve, the family went to Vail's Inter-Faith Chapel. Though front-row seats had been reserved for the Fords in the crowded sanctuary, they discreetly declined to disrupt anyone by walking down front. Someone gave Mrs. Ford a rear seat, but the President and Michael, 24, Jack, 22, Steve, 18, and Susan, 17, insisted on standing through the service in the rear of the chapel with others...
...reference was to White House Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld, an ardent skier himself, who had toted along a satchel of papers to Vail. Ford was acutely conscious of some press complaints that he should not be schussing downhill while the nation's economy was slipping in the same direction. He also received unseasonal greetings in the form of the latest Gallup poll. The survey reported that because of the economy, only 42% of the American people approved of the way he was handling his job-the lowest rating he has received since taking office...
...hours every day, Ford knuckled down to work. He received CIA Director William Colby's report on allegations of spying within the U.S. by the CIA. At the President's request, the Administration's top team of economists and energy advisers also flew out to Vail to continue the intensive discussions that have been going on for weeks about how to cure the recession without worsening inflation...
...homework was done, Ford made no secret of his delight in once more escaping to the slopes. At 61, the most 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...