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, [No Subject], 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: Transaction Publishers, 2001), p. 188.
16. Rumsfeld to Ford, "CIA Director," undated.
17. Howard J. Osborn to Executive Secretary, 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.
