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 DETROIT (AP) - He ate cottage cheese with ketchup nearly every day for lunch, swam in the pool outside his White House study in all kinds of weather, and lived by the same work ethic as president that he was known for all of his life.
President Ford was very much a man of routine, says Dorothy Downton, who joined his congressional staff in 1967 and was his personal secretary while he was vice president and president.
"He was very methodical in his work habits. He would not be able to really relax until his work was done," Downton, now the administrative assistant for The Associated Press in Detroit, said in an interview Wednesday. "He was a very strong individual, and as far as his own work was concerned a very strict individual. He had a very strong work ethic and he continued that, I'm sure, right up until the very end."
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