MRS. FORD WOULD NOT LIVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE IF HENRY FORD BECAME POTUS
Albany, Georgia (JFK+50) On April 9. 1923, the Evening Star reports an Associated Press front page story that "Mrs. Henry Ford* will not live at the White House" if her husband was ever elected President of the United States.
Mrs. Ford revealed this information to a group of people here in Albany last evening when they expressed the desire to support her husband for high office.
Mrs. Ford said...
"If Henry (Ford)** really went to the White House to live there, he would have to go without me."
JFK+50 NOTE
The source for this post does not reveal the reasons why Mrs. Ford would not have wanted to live at the White House. To our knowledge, no First Lady has ever refused to live there with her husband although some have spent a good deal of time traveling or staying in other places.
Jacqueline Kennedy was appalled with the furnishings in the Executive Mansion during her tour with Mrs. Eisenhower and she often let it be known that she didn't particularly care for living with her family in a fishbowl.
*Clara Bryant Ford (1866-1950) was born in Wayne County, Michigan & married Henry Ford in April 1888. The couple had one child, Edsel. CBF was an active suffragist & was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.
**Henry Ford (1863-1947) was born in Springwell Township, Michigan & founded Ford Motor Company & developed the assembly line technique of mass-producing automobiles.
SOURCE
"Will Not Live in White House, Wife of Henry Ford Declares," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., April 9, 1923, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
