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.
9. Rumsfeld, U.S. Defense Perspectives: Fiscal Year 1977, July 1976.
10. Rumsfeld, U.S. Defense Perspectives: Fiscal Year 1978, January 1977; Rumsfeld, interviewed by Dr. Alfred Goldberg and Dr. Roger Trask, OSD Historical Office, August 2, 1994, transcript, pp. 3–5.
11. Rumsfeld, interviewed by Dr. Alfred Goldberg and Dr. Roger Trask, OSD Historical Office, July 12, 1994, transcript, pp. 20–21.
12. Rumsfeld, interviewed by Dr. Alfred Goldberg and Dr. Roger Trask, OSD Historical Office, August 2, 1994, transcript, pp. 3–4; “Hughes/Currie briefing Attendance Summary (Presentations to Members of the 94th Congress),” undated.
13. Defense Department cable, “Soviets Attack Sec Def Rumsfeld and Growing US Defense Budget,” September 22, 1976.
14. Linwood B. Carter and Thomas Coipuram Jr., “Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills: A Chronology, FY1970–FY2006,” CRS Report for Congress, 98-756C, updated May 23,2005.
15. Lou Cannon, Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power (New York: Public Affairs, 2003), pp. 416–17.
16. Gerald R. Ford, “Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session,” Everett McKinley Dirksen Forum, Peoria, IL, March 5, 1976.
17. Jon Nordheimer, “Reagan Sharpens His Criticism of Ford, Citing Canal Talks and Two in Cabinet,” New York Times, February 29, 1976.
18. Ronald Reagan, TV address to the nation, “To Restore America,” March 31, 1976; Jon Nordheimer, “Reagan Appeals for Wide Support,” New York Times, April 1, 1976.
19. Memorandum of conversation, Ford, Kissinger, Rumsfeld, and Scowcroft, Oval Office, March 29, 1976 (Gerald R. Ford Library).
20. Memorandum of conversation, Ford, Kissinger, Rumsfeld, and Scowcroft, Oval Office, March 29, 1976 (Gerald R. Ford Library).
21. Rumsfeld, interviewed by Dr. Alfred Goldberg and Dr. Roger Trask, OSD Historical Office, July 12, 1994, transcript pp. 33–34.
22. Henry Kissinger, Years of Renewal (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), p. 176.
23. Rumsfeld to Ford, “‘Cruise Missile’ definition,” August 2, 1976.
24. Rumsfeld, “Continuation: Meeting with the President,” February 15, 1976.
25. Brezhnev, letter to Ford, March 17, 1976.
CHAPTER 17 The 1976 Defeat
1. Rumsfeld, handwritten note, August 7, 1976.
2. Christopher Lydon, “GOP Still Faces the Realities of Decay and Minority Status,” New York Times, September 1, 1974.
3. Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter, first presidential debate, moderated by Edwin Newman, Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, PA, September 23, 1976, transcript; “What the Voters Say,” Newsweek, October 4, 1976.
4. Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter, second presidential debate, moderated by Pauline Frederick, Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco, California, October 6, 1976, transcript.
5. George S. Brown, interviewed by Ranan Lurie, April 12, 1976, transcript.
6. Lee Lescaze, “Gen. Brown Is in Hot Water Again,” Washington Post, October 19, 1976.
7. Lee Lescaze, “Gen. Brown Is in Hot Water Again,” Washington Post, October 19, 1976.
8. Rumsfeld and Brown, news conference, Pentagon, October 18, 1976, transcript.
9. “Together in Defeat,” Chicago Sun-Times, November 4, 1976.
10. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” November 5, 1976.
11. Memorandum of conversation, Carter, Mondale, Rumsfeld et al., Blair House, November 22, 1976.
12. Memorandum of conversation, Carter, Mondale, Rumsfeld et al., Blair House, November 22, 1976.
13. Rumsfeld, “President-elect’s Visit, 10 December 1976,” December 10, 1976.
14. Rumsfeld to Ford, “Review of Alternatives to the B-1 Bomber,” October 23, 1976; Edward E. David, Jr., Michael M. May, and Paul H. Nitze, letter to Thomas C. Reed, Secretary of the Air Force, October 8, 1976.
15. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” November 22, 1976.
PART SEVEN Back to Reality
CHAPTER 18 Searle’s Sweet Success
1. Joann S. Lublin, “Searle Confirms Rumsfeld Will Become President, Chief Executive Officer June 1,” Wall Street Journal, April 18, 1977.
2. Jim Denny, “G. D. Searle & Co.: A Brief History as Recalled by Jim Denny,” June 17, 2010.
3. OECD Health Data 2010, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, June 2010.
4. Hugh D. Menzies, “The Ten Toughest Bosses,” Fortune, April 21, 1980.
5. Robert H. Mazur, “Discovery of Aspartame,” in Aspartame: Physiology and Biochemistry, eds. Lewis D. Stegink and Lloyd J. Filer, Jr. (New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1984), pp. 3–4; John E. Robson, “Aspartame Chronology,” July 30, 1986.
6. “Study of G. D. Searle Shows ‘Sloppy’ Tests of Drugs, FDA Says,” Wall Street Journal, January 21, 1976; “FDA Calls for Grand Jury Investigation of G. D. Searle’s Drug-Testing Practices,” Wall Street Journal, April 9, 1976.
7. Donald R. Murdoch, letter to Dan Rather, July 17, 1984.
8. Rumsfeld, [No Subject], July 12, 1984.
9. Rumsfeld, “NutraSweet,” October 22, 1990.
10. “Searle: Rallying a Drug Company with an Injection of New Vitality,” BusinessWeek, February 8, 1982.
11. Patricia Szymczak, “Monsanto, Searle Make Sweet Deal,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, July 19, 1985.
12. “Searle 1888–1985,” shareholder report, January 31, 1986.
CHAPTER 19 From Malaise to Morning in America
1. Carter, letter to Rumsfeld, October 24, 1978; Carter, letter to Rumsfeld, November 15, 1978; Rumsfeld-Searle, letter to Carter, December 6, 1978; Rumsfeld, letter to Carter, December 6, 1978.
2. “My Opinion of the Russians Has Changed Most Drastically…” Time, January 14, 1980.
3. “My Opinion of the Russians Has Changed Most Drastically…” Time, January 14, 1980.
4. Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, statement of Donald Rumsfeld, October 11, 1979.
5. Rumsfeld, “Meeting at the White House,” January 9, 1980.
6. Zbigniew Brzezin
ski, Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977–1981 (New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1983), p. 443.
7. “My Opinion of the Russians Has Changed Most Drastically…” Time, January 14, 1980.
8. Jimmy Carter, address on Afghanistan, January 4, 1980, transcript.
9. Rumsfeld, “Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan,” January 9, 1980.
10. Reagan for President News, July 1, 1980.
11. Rumsfeld, remarks at the Republican National Convention, Detroit, MI, July 14, 1980, transcript.
12. Hedrick Smith, “Running-Mate List Trimmed by Reagan,” New York Times, July 1, 1980.
13. Robert A. Goldwin, “John Locke and the Law of the Sea,” Commentary (June 1981).
14. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with President Reagan on October 13, [1982],” January 24, 1983.
15. Rumsfeld to Reagan, “Law of the Sea,” December 11, 1982.
16. Rumsfeld to Reagan, “Law of the Sea,” December 11, 1982.
17. Rumsfeld, [No Subject], December 10, 1986.
18. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with Fahrenkopf and Bill Greener, III,” November 10, 1986.
19. Rumsfeld to Bernie Windon and Linda Schaefer, “Thoughts on the Iowa Trip,” October 15, 1986.
20. Ann Reilly Dowd, “Who’s Ahead in the ’88 Money Race,” Fortune, vol. 115, no. 12, June 8, 1987.
21. Richard L. Berke, “Campaign Loans Oft en Risky,” New York Times, June 16, 1987.
22. Glenn, letter to Rumsfeld, April 27, 1987; Rumsfeld, letter to Glenn, May 21, 1987.
CHAPTER 20 Our Rural Period, Interrupted
1. William Safire, “Spectrum Squatters,” New York Times, October 9, 2000.
2. Rumsfeld, “1996 GOP Convention,” August 28, 1996.
3. Rumsfeld, handwritten note, October 31, 1996.
4. Roger Longman, “Gilead’s Metamorphoses,” In Vivo: The Business and Medicine Report (March 1996), pp. 35–45.
5. Rumsfeld, letter to Shultz, November 9, 1998.
6. Rumsfeld, letter to Rice, March 29, 1999.
7. Rumsfeld, [No Subject], February 1, 1999.
8. Rumsfeld, [No Subject], February 1, 1999.
9. Rumsfeld, letter to Bolten, cc: Rice, April 28, 1999.
10. Alison Mitchell, “Bush Says U.S. Should Reduce Nuclear Arms,” New York Times, May 24, 2000.
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