As viewers activate the display with a touch-screen monitor, recorded voices of actors portraying Ford, Rockefeller, Kissinger, and others describe the highlighted areas for a look at a typical day in the most atypical of work spaces. Here visitors can participate in U.S. foreign policy decision making. By selecting a location on a giant interactive world map, guests can travel with President Ford and Secretary Kissinger to hot spots around the globe and learn about the events or diplomatic challenges the Ford administration faced. A new mood at the White House came with the Ford administration. In this visually exciting gallery, a unique holographic device brings the White House to life.
Visitors activate the display by selecting one of ten rooms in the president's house.
A large screen appears on which the history of that particular room unfolds across two centuries. Featured are head of state visits, life in the family quarters, and elaborate state dinners for Queen Elizabeth and other world leaders. In this gallery, visitors also will enjoy a changing selection of Bicentennial gifts presented to President and Mrs. Ford. In this gallery, artifacts and video images recount Gerald Ford's domestic policy including the energy crisis, CIA reform, and the economic recession. Besides demonstrating Ford's reliance on those who worked with him, this gallery also illustrates Betty Ford's outspoken advocacy on a variety of women's issues.