Known and Unknown (91 page)

37.
Hobart Rowen, “Energy Plan is Victory for Rockefeller,”
Washington Post,
September 24, 1975; Joseph Lelyveld, “Rockefeller Making an Impact on Policy,”
New York Times,
September 27, 1975.

38.
“Th inking Big,”
Wall Street Journal,
September 25, 1975; Nicholas von Hoffman, “Ford Puts Strain on Marketplace,”
Chicago Tribune,
September 27, 1975.

39.
Mary Russell, “House Rejects Fuel Plan,”
Washington Post,
December 12, 1975.

40.
Sidney Blumenthal, “The Imperial Vice Presidency,”
Salon.com,
June 28, 2007.

41.
Don Oberdorfer, “He Wants to Be Speaker of the House,”
New York Times,
April 30, 1967.

42.
White House memorandum, “Meetings at Camp David,” December 4, 1974.

43.
“Chevy Chase recalls Ford as a ‘terrific guy,'” Reuters, December 27, 2006.

44.
Betty Ford, “Remarks to the American Cancer Society,” New York City, November 7, 1975; Betty Ford with Chris Chase,
Betty: A Glad Awakening
(New York: Doubleday, 1987).

45.
“Vice President Ford: ‘Why I Will Not Run in '76,'”
U.S. News & World Report,
December 17, 1973.

46.
Gerald R. Ford, “Recollections of President Gerald R. Ford,” September 5, 1975, transcribed by Leona M. Goodell.

47.
Special Agent Larry M. Buendorf, United States Secret Service, statement, Senator Hotel, Sacramento, California, September 5, 1975; Tom Matthews, Th omas M. DeFrank, Gerald C. Lubenow, William J. Cook, and Hal Bruno, “Ford's Brush with Death,”
Newsweek,
September 15, 1975.

48.
Rumsfeld, interviewed by Don Fulsome, Air Force One, September 22, 1975, transcript.

49.
David M. Alpen with Peter S. Greenberg, Thomas DeFrank, and Tom Joyce, “Can the Risk Be Cut,”
Newsweek,
October 6, 1975; Philip Shabecoff,
New York Times,
September 22, 1975.

50.
Gerald R. Ford,
A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford
(New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 312.

51.
Eileen Keerdoja, “Squeaky and Sara Jane,”
Newsweek,
November 8, 1976.

52.
Gerald R. Ford,
A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford
(New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 312.

53.
Gerald R. Ford, “Remarks of the President Upon His Arrival at the White House,” September 22, 1975.

54.
Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” September 24, 1975.

55.
Tom Mathews, Thomas M. DeFrank, John J. Lindsay, and Tony Fuller, “How Sick Is the GOP?”
Newsweek,
August 23, 1976.

CHAPTER 13
An Agonizing Reappraisal

1.
Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” October 22, 1975.

2.
Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” October 22, 1975.

3.
Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” October 23, 1975.

4.
Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” October 23, 1975.

5.
Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” October 24, 1975, 16:20.

6.
Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” October 24, 1975, 21:32.

7.
Rumsfeld and Cheney to Ford, October 24,1975.

8.
Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” October 25, 1975.

9.
Gerald R. Ford,
A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford
(New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 326; Henry Kissinger,
Years of Renewal
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), pp. 836–37.

10.
Gerald R. Ford,
A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford
(New York: Harper & Row, 1979), pp. 326–27.

11.
Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” October 27, 1975.

12.
Rumsfeld, “Continuation of Meeting with the President,” October 28, 1975.

13.
Congressional Record, vol. 109, pt. 15, October 21, 1963, pp. 19971–19974.

14.
Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” November 1, 1975.

15.
George H. W. Bush with Victor Gold,
Looking Forward: An Autobiography
(New York: Doubleday, 1987), p. 158; Herbert S. Parmet,
George Bush: The Life of a Lone Star Yankee
(Brunswick, NJ: Iransaction Publishers, 2001), p. 188.

16.
Rumsfeld to Ford, “CIA Director,” undated.

17.
Howard J. Osborn to Executive Secretary and CIA Management Committee, “Family Jewels,” May 16, 1973 (Central Intelligence Agency).

18.
Gerald R. Ford,
A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford
(New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 325.

19.
Barbara Bush,
Barbara Bush: A Memoir
(New York: Scribner, 1994), p. 134.

20.
Herbert S. Parmet,
George Bush: The Life of a Lone Star Yankee
(Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2001), p. 189.

21.
Gerald R. Ford,
A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford
(New York: Harper & Row, 1979), pp. 337–38.

22.
“Rumsfeld for Defense,”
Wall Street Journal,
March 10, 1989.

23.
Rumsfeld, letter to Ford with attachments, March 28, 1989.

24.
Ford, letter to Rumsfeld, April 3, 1989.

25.
Lou Cannon, “Rumsfeld: Silent Architect, Chief of Staff Seen as Force Behind Shake-Up,”
Washington Post,
November 4, 1975.

26.
Nelson A. Rockefeller, interviewed by Hugh Morrow, November 22, 1977, transcript, p. 27 (Rockefeller Archive Center).

27.
Gerald R. Ford,
A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford
(New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 327.

28.
Gerald R. Ford,
A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford
(New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 345.

PART SIX
Fighting the Cold War

1.
Rumsfeld, “Eulogy for President Ford,” Grand Rapids, MI, January 3, 2007.

CHAPTER 14
Unfinished Business

1.
Douglas Brinkley, “Of Ladders and Letters,”
Time,
April 24, 2000.

2.
Rumsfeld, “Memorandum: Meeting with the President,” April 29, 1975, 15:42.

3.
Ron Nessen,
It Sure Looks Different from the Inside
(Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1978), p. 110.

4.
Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” April 29, 1975, 17:10.

5.
Kissinger, news conference, April 29, 1975 (
The Department of State Bulletin,
vol. LXXII, no. 1873, May 19, 1975).

6.
Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” April 30, 1975, 8:31 a.m.

7.
Ron Nessen,
It Sure Looks Different from the Inside
(Chicago: Playboy Press, 1978), p. 113.

8.
Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” April 30, 1975, 10:00 a.m.

9.
General Fred C. Weyand, “Report to the President of the United States on the Situation in South Vietnam,” and cover memo, April 4, 1975. (Gerald R. Ford Library, National Security Adviser, Presidential Country Files for East Asia and the Pacific, Box 19, Folder: “Vietnam [13]”).

10.
Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President: National Security Council Meeting in the Cabinet Room,” May 12, 1975.

11.
Comptroller General of the United States, “The Seizure of the Mayaguez—A Case Study of Crisis Management” (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976), p. 63.

12.
Rumsfeld to Ford, “Cambodia,” May 14, 1975.

13.
Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” May 14, 1975; Rumsfeld to Ford, “Cambodia,” May 14, 1975.

14.
Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President: National Security Council Meeting on Cambodia,” May 14, 1975.

15.
Richard J. Levine, “Success of
Mayaguez
Recovery Bolsters Ford's Political Stock, Military Morale,”
Wall Street Journal,
May 16, 1975.

CHAPTER 15
Turning On the Lights

1.
Rowan Scarborough,
Rumsfeld's War: The Untold Story of America's Anti-Terrorist Commander
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2004), p. 81.

2.
David Binder, “Senate Votes to Cut Off Covert Aid for Angolans; Ford Predicts a ‘Tragedy,'”
New York Times,
December 20, 1975.

3.
Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” February 27, 1976.

4.
Leonid Brezhnev, “The 25th Party Congress,”
Survival,
vol. 18, no. 3 (May/June 1976), pp. 123–26.

5.
Arnaud De Borchgrave, “‘Sleepers' in NATO,”
Newsweek,
March 8, 1976.

6.
Arnaud De Borchgrave, “‘Sleepers' in NATO,”
Newsweek,
March 8, 1976.

7.
“Excerpts from Brezhnev's Appeal for World Red Meeting,”
New York Times,
November 7, 1964.

8.
Pulitzer Prize Board, “Statement on Walter Duranty's 1932 Prize,” November 21, 2003; Arnold Beichman, “Pulitzer-Winning Lies,”
Weekly Standard,
June 12, 2003.

9.
Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, “Nomination of Donald Rumsfeld to be Secretary of Defense,” Washington, D.C., November 12–13, 1975.

10.
Daniel Lewis, “Philip Berrigan, Former Priest and Peace Advocate in the Vietnam War Era, Dies at 79,”
New York Times,
December 8, 2002.

11.
“6 Jailed for Demonstration Against Nuclear Weapons,”
New York Times,
January 8, 1977.

12.
“Three Arrested for Digging Up Rumsfeld Lawn,”
Washington Post,
August 29, 1976.

13.
Rumsfeld, “Memo,” November 29, 1995.

14.
John W. Finney, “Rumsfeld Fights Lynn on Arms Budget Cuts,”
New York Times,
December 6, 1975.

15.
Rumsfeld to Secretaries of the Military Departments et al., “NATO Weapon Systems Standardization,” January 28, 1976.

16.
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “Tank Trouble,”
Washington Post,
August 6, 1976.

17.
Rumsfeld, “Statement by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,” September 21, 1976.

18.
Melvin Price, letter to Rumsfeld, July 30, 1976; Melvin Price, letter to Rumsfeld, August 5, 1976; Rumsfeld, letter to Melvin Price, August 6, 1976.

CHAPTER 16
Hold the SALT: Tension over Détente

1.
“Ford's Costly Purge,”
Time,
November 17, 1975.

2.
Kissinger and James (Scotty) Reston, phone conversation, November 3, 1975, transcript.

3.
Kissinger and Secretary William Simon, phone conversation, November 3, 1975, transcript.

4.
Kissinger and Secretary William Simon, phone conversation, November 3, 1975, transcript.

5.
“Total NODIS Cables Processed by the Cable Branch,” December 1976.

6.
John W. Finney, “Rumsfeld Fights Lynn on Arms Budget Cuts,”
New York Times,
December 6, 1975.

7.
John W. Finney, “Rumsfeld Calls for More Funds, Citing Increasing Soviet Power,”
New York Times,
January 28, 1976.

8.
Marshall to Rumsfeld
,
“Key Military Balances,” December 6, 1975.