Betty Ford, the widow of late President Gerald Ford and a co-founder of an eponymous addiction center in California, has died at the age of 93, according to the director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum. As CNN reports, Ford died Friday evening with family at her bedside, according to a family member. In public, she was one of the most visible and outspoken first ladies in history. In private, she triumphed over serious personal adversity. She was married to Gerald Ford for 58 years. Shortly after becoming president in 1974, Ford said, "I am indebted to no man and to only one woman, my dear wife."

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