Former First Lady Betty Ford dies at 93

Betty Ford, the wife of the late President Gerald Ford, died on Friday. She was 93.

She where she, Lee rice, a spokesman for the hospital died to the Eisenhower Medical Center in the vicinity, Mirage, California, was brought from her home in Rancho, told NBC News.

Nancy Reagan was to complain about one of the first it passed.

"I was deeply this afternoon when I heard of Betty Ford's death, sad" the wife of the late President Ronald Reagan said in a statement. "it was an inspiration to so many by their efforts to educate women about breast cancer and their wonderful work in the Betty Ford Center." "It was Jerry Ford strength through some very difficult days in the history of our country, and I admired their courage in front of and share their personal struggles with all of us."

Betty Ford was 1974 axial in the limelight when her husband became President after the resignation of President Richard Nixon. She remained one of the most admired women in the country, even though 1977 left the Fords of the White House.

During the turmoil of the Watergate era, she reveals that she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She underwent a mastectomy , soon after her husband became President.

In 1978, she was admitted to the hospital and said that she had become addicted to drugs and alcohol took them for painful arthritis and a pinched nerve in his neck.

Four years later she Betty Ford founded Center in Rancho Mirage, a substance abuse facility.

Former President Ford, who died in 2006, was Vice President Nixon in 1973, days after Spiro Agnew resigned over a scandal.

The following year boarded Ford to the presidency after Nixon resigned following the Watergate scandal, but he was in 1976 when he sought a definitive of the Office of Jimmy Carter defeated.

Much of President Ford in part term a tense nation in a turbulent period that included the end of the Viet Nam war and various economic challenges devoted reassuring.

After the Watergate torture Americans, Lady Betty, whose open charmed the country liked their new President - and first.

Ford was a star football player at the University of Michigan and served in the Navy during World War II. After the war, he was right in Michigan and finally Republican politics.

The associated press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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