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Gerald Ford and America's Bicentennial

March 26 at 6:30pm

At Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library

Northside, Ann Arbor

📚Library has small museum, mostly research archives
🎤DeFrank is last journalist from Ford era still on White House beat

Hear the Bicentennial through the eyes of the only journalist still covering the White House who was there with Ford in 1976. Thomas DeFrank brings personal stories from traveling with the President during America's 200th birthday bash.

Free evening talk
First-hand journalist stories
American history deep dive
Intimate lecture format

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  • Intimate lecture format
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