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Ford Presidential Library :i:.tl' cnt : 1.LU ,_• e ;~Hient f.'nd h1r0 . 11.'c.l flm ·.lle same choppl om the White House to Anch l\.:E'B. Bob Hartm< s aid it took a special order fro1 .l himself to gel; i s done because of SS rule . a ge t.. he tvvo flying t <'. ther. it!~~ I t is not the t time a Pres anc'1 ;J? have flovm tn .ether, acco , .~ to one source :: •i oard. He beli · · ~s that on one ( > 1. s i on LBJ and film f lew aboard a cl,opper toge.ill.her I d o · t remember such an occasion. Rock; 1 t ood beside the Pres while he (Ford) re;::id his fare\ · i 1 sta.:t_ement. 1 AF 0 1 ' off t,.., e ground 8 : 30 a.m. edt. J ack Jfor d came back and ·talked easily r1i th the pool. Seemed to be eager to talk. Talk started with comment on· a· letter he vrrote to the Star, published a few days ago , then Helen aske~ if he would like to be Pres. '!Id rather be vice president," he replied. "You d on't '.. h1=1ve to work as hard and you get the benefits." Said he really wanted to go back out \"l est,="but i 1 m g oing to . try to stick it out in Washington for the campaign." He s aid he would make sonB s :p eeches for his father. ; Doesn't like 1/ashington weather at all. Would be willingy; to go into poli:tics if he could live where he wants f -, (Vl'yoming, Idaho, Utah are his favorites) and not have stay inside all the time. J;i)5 lih..en asked if he agreed wj.. th h is ~~ father's philosophy, he said "ove'a:ll I agree very much so , but I admit that if anything I may be more conservative." He said he definitely oelieved in a pay-as-you-go policy but recogni ::;, ed it could not always be acl1ieved at the federal level. He said "people are t really getting tired" after z-w.:::.~ 0 throvdng money , around for 20 years --zazl:rr"azJX.z:t:zzt2rNlii1nall-~l.iiax~xe-»2-ma~. r -=1t··' haG''"t - so1v·ea--a11 the problems." , ,,-/_ He said his college experienc-e~;;;e re sponsi bl~ · :__ for his conservatism than his father ' s influence. He , told how e asy it -.vas for .s tudents to borrow $350 and then;, squander it in a day ~ or tv10. iie said he was referring -' to what Vias called an emergency loan. · 11 He s c:,id. that this was a good-intentioned high ; . cost program and a nuisance." ,-r'::..):- He said his conservatism also stemmed fromviact "I never had any money . I~t-fo±\IteCl every summer since I was twelve ." He said he e9'.t some help ~t:?FJ family and mentioned ~i ' oe: getting $10 a v1 eek~ ~ . Asked wl:lat he likedfoi) out the white House , he said:· "someone ~akes my bed every morning and d.oes my laundry." Asked what he did not like, he said: 11 1 don't like · the way people are so av1ed by the V/hi te House . I don't_ like living in an institution. I see the need for it, but h~~ it doesn't sit well with me . If I h :? d my V1ay, l ' d like to see more of the house open ed up." He Gaid he LiHuught it might be po ::::. sible at this time when family is awe:y to open some of the family quarters. 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