Letter From Betty FordNo part of our society escapes alcoholism. One former First Lady of the United States came out publicly and announced "Intervention works." In The times of my Life the First Lady Betty Ford wrote: For some reason, I can tell you where every single person in the room was sitting; the floor plan is burned in my brain. Besides Jerry, and the boys and Susan and Gayle, Captain Joe Pursch, the Navy Doctor who's head of the Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Service in Long Beach, was there, and so was a Navy Nurse...They'd met together, and with the Captain Pursch's guidance, he family had prepared what they were going to say. I can't remember the words. I was in shock. I've been told that Susan harked back to the days before I'd stopped drinking the first time, and said she'd had to turn to Clara when I wasn't available, and Mike and Gayle spoke of wanting children, and wanting those children's grandmother to be healthy and in charge of her own life, and Jerry mentioned times when I had fallen asleep in the chair at night, and times when my speech had slurred, and Steve brought up a recent weekend when he and a girlfriend had cooked dinner for me and I wouldn't come to the table on time. "You just sat in front of the TV," Steve said, "and you had on drink, two drinks, three drinks. You hurt me."
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