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], filed 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 to 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 Detente," 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, "Meeting with the President," October 1, 1974.
26. Rumsfeld, "Meeting with the President," December 21, 1974.
27. Rumsfeld, "Meeting with the President," December 21, 1974.
28. Rumsfeld, "Meeting with the President," January 3, 1975.
29. Joseph E. Persico, The Imperial Rockefeller: A Biography of Nelson A. Rockefeller (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), p. 261.
30. Sam Roberts, "Serving as Ford's No. 2, Rockefeller Never Took His Eye Off Top Job," New York Times, December 31, 2006.
31. David Burnham, "Rockefeller Plan Splits Ford Aides," New York Times, September 5, 1975; Rumsfeld, "Continuation: Meeting with the President," August 27, 1975.
32. Rumsfeld, interviewed by Cary Reich, November 5, 1991, transcript.
33. David Burnham, "Greenspan Asserts Energy Loan Plan Could Have Potential for Corruption," New York Times, September 6, 1975.
34. Gerald R. Ford, A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 327.
35. William Brink, "Ford to City: Drop Dead," Daily News, October 30, 1975.
36. Rumsfeld, "Meeting with the President," October 24, 1975.
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. "Thinking 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. Reuters, "Chevy Chase recalls Ford as 'a terrific guy,'" MSNBC, 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, Thomas 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 Fulsom, 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 23, 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.