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THE PRESIDENT'S SCHEDULE

Wednesday - June 9, 1976

9:00 Director George Bush and General Brent Scowcroft. The Oval Office,

9:30 Mr. Robert T. Hartmann, Mr. John 0. Marsh,· Jr., Mr. James Cannon, Mr. Ron Nessen, and Mr. 'Richard B. Cheney - The Oval Office. 10:00 Mr. Ron Nessen, Mr. Max L. Friedersdorf,. Mr. Robert T. Hartmann 1 Mr. John O. Marsh, Jr., Mr. Rogers C. B. Morton· and Mr. Richard B·. Cheney. The Oval Office.

10:30 General Brent Scowcroft - The Oval Office.

* 11:00 His Excellency Sir Seretse M. Khama, K. B. E., President (30 min.) of the Republic of Botswana. (General Brent Scowcroft). The Oval Office.

12:00 Mr. Leo Cherne. (General Brent Scowcroft). (20 min.) The Oval Office . • 12:20 Greet Rodney Brown, the National Poster Child for (5 min.) Cystic Fibrosis. (Mr. James Cannon and Miss Sarah Massengale ) - The Ova l Office.

2:00 Mr. Rogers C. B. Morton, Mr. Stuart Spencer and Mr. Richard B . Cheney - The Oval Office.

4:00 Secretary William Coleman. (Mr. James Cannon). The Oval Office.

'\ 4:30 Mr. Richard B. Cheney - The Oval Office.

5:15 Reception for the National Broadcast Editorial Association. (45 min.) (Mr. Ron Nessen and Mrs. Margita White) - The State Floor.

7:30 Depart South Grounds With Vice Pres idcnt and Mrs, A. Rockefeller en route the Washington Navy Yard. . \l.~ . Dinner Cruise fo1· M}s~ Rockefeller aboard the SEQUOIA. I.AM ~l ~~# ~ . i 1.r ~,·~~ r~ ~ & -1..1 -~ s..t_ -t 1·-t u f BIG BIRTHDAY-Three days short of her 50th OS Oeing "more 0 philospher of life ... inter• birthday, Happy Rockefeller desc~ibes herself , ested in absorbing the whys of life." Official White House photoJ>y Jack Kightlinger SECOND LADY NEARS 50 Happy: 'Time We Went Home' BY MARLENE CIMONS Timu Staff Writer 4 W ASillNGTON-Happy Rqckefeller is going to be a ''They don't have to agree, of course, but they should half.century old Wednesday and sh~ is feeling pretty listen." good about it. "I'm astounded," she says, laughing, "that She seems somewhat reflectiv¢ this morning, a side the· the United States of America is only 150 Y-ears older than. public doesn't see, during a rare. interview in the living lam." room of her Foxhall Road home, a gray and white clap­ But she doesn't seem to worry about things like age. "I board house with green shutters purchased· by.J1er hus­ just don't think about it, not unless I look at my children," band, Vice President Rockefeller, more than 30 years ago. she says. There are six of them from age 25 to 9. "You It is a gray day. Outside, a clammy blanket of fog cov­ see,_ I operate at many different levels." · ers the city. Squirrels gather near a feeder on the back and a rabbit hurries across the grass. It is quiet here, ex­ "When you get to be 50," she smiles, as if liking the cept for the occasional roar of a jet leaving National Air­ sound of it, "you begin to see that life has certain pat. port. terns, repetitions, that some of the same kinds of prob­ There are about· 25 acres behind the house. The grounds lems appear over and over again. This is the kind of do not really stand out from others in this attr

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Personalities · ~ ".. ~ · ··· ;·: ; · '"~' · : .. It used to be said that government for the Arts aw31d hosted by the Na· Lady Ursula d' Abo, 58, at ·bne time • scandals varied ':from country to coun­ tional Symphony Orc;h~stra, Mrs. Ford m.ored to become Getty's s'ixth Wife,' try-the British had sex scandals, the predicted yesterday at the White as surprised to inherit oil sh.ares · French haa treason scandals and House that her husband will be nom­ orth $165,000. "The shares will all re· Americans had only money scandals. inated at the Republican National ain in Getty Oil until I die, as.he Well, America, it ·seems we've Convention in August and will be . ould. have wisped,'' said Lady Ur­ grown up. Or something. The latest elected in November. a. ·•11 am deeply grieyed by the entry in the sex scandal sweepstakes· Pointing out that there 4.re more eatb of .Mr. Getty, who ·was a dear is a soon-to-be published book by the women registered to vote in tf,is coun· ~ hind." · "'" late Kay Summersby, telling of her try than men, she told reporters she ·Penelope Kitson, 5-3, who lives fu a "relationship" with Dwight Eisen· hopes wQmen will have., "sense enough on".erted cricket pavillion in . the ·bower while she served as his chauf. to vote for a man of experien~:::j' rounds of Sutton Palace, the British feur and secretary during World War "It takes a . few months lo get adquartets, was one ·, of tli.e."'!ew .,, lI. Tlle book, "Past Forgetting," con­ oriented in this job. There are so omen G~tty would s~e· in the. ..last I firms a previous report that Ike many problems,'! 1 . eeks of his life. She il}herlted $826,· ~ wanted to divorce Mamie in order to 0. . . marry her. Simon and Schuster is pub· James J. Pe Io i;;i, who for two And Rosabella Burch, 43, a Nicar· lishing the book posthumously, ac­ years was given the iilent treatment guan widow who told a magazine in· cording to Summersby's. wishes. She by fellow cadets at West Point despite "iewer .she hoped to marry Getty, died Jan. 20, 1975. official exoneration after be was ac· herited shares worth $82,625. She cused of cheating, has won an Army said she didn't know how much she Happy Rockefeller celebrated her Commendation Medal for saving the ad· be:en ·left, but aqded, "Whatever IOth birthday Wednesday night on the life of an East German inau injured in rovision has been made will make presidential yacht Sequoia. a traffic accident. .me happy about the mortgage in the I President Gerald · R. Ford invited Army officials quoted Soviet au· future." Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, his thorities, who control Allied traffic wife and 11 other guests aboard for a ' through East , as sayi,ng Pe­ , ·Country singer, Willie Nelson ap­ birthday dinner and Potomac cruise. losi administered first aid to the man peared Wednesday before a F;ort · . Other guests were Ford campaign when he came upon the scene of a col· Worth, Tex., federal grand jury'·in­ manager Rogers c. B. Morton, Attor­ lisfon between two civilian trucks. vestigating a multi-million-dollar -co· ney General. and Mrs. Edward Levi, Pelosi, now a first lieutenant with caine and heroin trafficking operation Secretary of .Transportation William the Berlin Brigade's' Special Troops reportedly ·based in Dallas. ' T. Coleman, Senate Minority Leader unit, safd after graduating· in June, and Mrs. Hugh Scott (R·Pa.), 'House 1973 from West Point that those who The jury began its investigation ear­ Minority Leader John Rhodes . ·m,. shunned him there • oontinued the lier this year, naming Nelson and 19 Ariz..), actress Kitty Carlisle. column­ , treatment. after gradu.ation. "The Si· other people in subpoenas issued in ist Charles Bartlett and his ·wile, and lence" was abolished at West Point April. Beside Nelson, country Singer the President's sister-in-law, Mrs. the iollowing September. • . Ray PriCe and Price's son Cliff were T Ford. · ' called to testify. Oillionaire J. Paul Getty, whose will Nelson declined cor)lmeni when he The women's '\tote will determine was filed yesterday in Los Angeles, .emerged from testifying and officials the outcome of the November presi­ was apparently something of a"rake. have not given any reason for subpoe· dential election in the opinion of '!'here a.re 11 women beneficiaries in naing the music stars, Betty. Ford. his will. One of them said her bequest After she had welcomed those con· was a pleasant surprise; another said -Jeannette SmJth necte(i with the Business Committee she didn't know how much he left her. · and Dorothy McCardle ______.,. ~ ...... c .. i:lnO n1s wae, and lenre" was aoollshcel at West Point the President's sister-in-law, i\trs. the following September. T Ford. Oillionaire J. Paul Getty, whose will The women's vote will determine was filed ~-estcrday in Los Angoles, the outcome of the November presi­ was app.,rently ~omeihing of a rake. dential election in the opinion of 'fhPn' are 11 women beneficiaries in First Lady Betty.Ford. his wi!! One of them said her bequesl After she had welcomed those con­ was a pleasant surprise; another said , nected with the Business Committee she didn't know how much he left her. ~ i .• l • I

Clockwise from to, left: James P. Pelosi, in a 1973 p when he was a cadet at West Poin ]. Paul Ghtty, who~ will was filed yesterday; and Vic President and Mrs . Nelson Rockefeller wit.h President and Mrs. Ger,ald Ford on board the president yacht Sequoia Wednesday night.

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