...considers western Michigan her ''home-stomping ground'' that has influenced her character and moral development. Richard Norton Smith, director of the city's Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, praised her willingness to talk about breast cancer...

...was no match for that, but for four hours on July 12, in the new home of the Philadelphia Orchestra, historian Richard Norton Smith and journalist Cokie Roberts led the governors in a discussion that was the best I've ever heard from them...