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She left a found of over $2 million to maintain it.
The article I read said she had spent over $2 million to restore it.
I'm sure it was at least that much, and it is very wonderful. I'll show you the booklet. I brought it downstairs. I must have left it outdoors.
Well, do you want to tell new now about your social activities?
Well, the dinner at the White House that was for the President of France “as a very attractively done affair. I was really invited because of some friends, the George Feldmans, who were friends of the Fords, I had never met President Ford before, but he evidently knew about me through John Fogarty somehow. How he could remembers that, I don't know. he asked if he might call me Mary right away. Then he introduced me to the President of France, and said, “Oh, yes, I know about her. she is interested in our palaces in France,” He associated me with Versailles. He was extremely well briefed.
You had not met him before?
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