Jad Abumrad

My mother hung up on me when I first called her after these stories began to be published.

I know you are concerned with very many matters which are too important and pressing for you to be concerned with the details of my private life.

However, the unexpected and glaring publicity which has been given to my private life has very seriously disrupted my family relationships.

Mr. President, it is a very hard thing to have your mother and family not want to have any contact with you.

I know that your schedule is heavily occupied, but I respectfully request that you take the time to see my family or at least call my family.

The telephone number is 313...

Zero, I love my family, and I do not want to be separated from their love and companionship.

Your help will be gratefully appreciated.

Respectfully, Oliver W. Sibyl.

That's sad.

Sadder to think that nothing came of it.

You know?

Yeah.

We tried really hard to find out if Ford ever made that call.

The archivists at the Ford Library, they went through his call logs, and there was no evidence that he ever made that call.

And then we talked to George Jr., and he talked to everybody in his family, and they don't remember it either.

Anyway, you can't say for sure, but as far as we can tell, that call never happened.

But we did find out that the same day that Oliver sent that letter back to Ford—

he and his lawyer filed a $15 million lawsuit against the press.

Really?