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10. “The Veepstakes,” Newsweek, August 26, 1974.
11. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum of Meeting with the President, Oval Office,” August 15, 1974.
12. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” August 20, 1974, 10:00 a.m.
13. John Herbers, “Optimism Voiced,” New York Times, August 21, 1974.
14. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” August 20, 1974, [time unknown].
15. John Herbers, “Optimism Voiced,” New York Times, August 21, 1974.
16. Christopher Lydon, “G.O.P. Still Faces the Realities of Decay and Minority Status,” New York Times, September 1, 1974.
17. John Herbers, “Optimism Voiced,” New York Times, August 21, 1974.
18. Rumsfeld, “Cabinet Meeting: Ford Administration,” August 10, 1974.
19. Transition Team memo, “Personnel,” hand-delivered by Rumsfeld to Ford on August 20, 1974; Lady Bird Johnson, A White House Diary (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), pp. 733–34.
20. “‘The Sun Is Shining Again,’” Newsweek, August 26, 1974.
21. Rumsfeld, “Cabinet Meeting: Ford Administration,” August 10, 1974.
22. Gerald R. Ford, “Remarks on Signing a Proclamation Granting Pardon to Richard Nixon,” September 8, 1974.
23. Gerald R. Ford, A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), pp. 196–99.
24. Adam Clymer, “Ford Wins Kennedy Award for ‘Courage’ of Nixon Pardon,” New York Times, May 22, 2001; Bill Boyarsky, “Kennedy Says He Doubts Public Will Stand for Pardon,” Los Angeles Times, September 14, 1974.
25. Donald Rumsfeld, letter to George Rumsfeld, October 15, 1954.
26. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum of Telephone Conversation from the President,” September 19, 1974.
27. Gerald R. Ford, A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 186.
28. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum of Conversation with President,” September 22, 1974.
CHAPTER 12 A Rocky Start
1. Rumsfeld to Buchen, [No Subject], September 29, 1974.
2. Rumsfeld, “Safe in Haig’s Office,” September 29, 1974; Cheney, “Safe with Attached Receipt,” September 29, 1974.
3. Gannon, letter to Rumsfeld, October 31, 1974.
4. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum for the File,” October 5, 1974.
5. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” October 3, 1974.
6. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum for the File,” October 5, 1974; Rumsfeld, “Phone call from Ron Ziegler, 8:20 AM (5:20 AM in California),” October 5, 1974.
7. Rumsfeld to Cheney, [No Subject], October 13, 1974.
8. Rumsfeld, “Memo: Meeting with the President,” October 11, 1974.
9. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” October 17, 1974.
10. Gerald R. Ford, A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 187.
11. Gerald R. Ford, A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 187.
12. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” November 13, 1974.
13. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President (10/18/74) from 1:10–1:14,” October 18, 1974; Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” October 23, 1974.
14. Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond, letter to Ford, June 23, 1975.
15. Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “Solzhenitsyn, Kissinger and Détente,” Washington Post, July 20, 1975.
16. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” July 9, 1975, 11:32; Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” July 9, 1975, 17:28; Cheney to Rumsfeld, “Solzhenitsyn,” July 8, 1975.
17. Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “Snubbing Solzhenitsyn,” Washington Post, July 17, 1975.
18. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum of Telephone Conversation from the President,” September 19, 1974.
19. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President: Oval Office,” October 8, 1974.
20. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President: Oval Office,” October 8, 1974; Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” December 2, 1974.
21. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President: Oval Office,” October 8, 1974.
22. Rumsfeld, handwritten note, September 16, 1975; Jude Wanniski, “Taxes, Revenues, and the ‘Laffer Curve,’” Public Interest (Winter 1978).
23. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President: Pearl Harbor Day,” December 7, 1974.
24. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” December 19, 1974.
25. Rumsfeld,