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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.