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When the center held : Gerald Ford and the rescue of the American presidency
Title:
When the center held : Gerald Ford and the rescue of the American presidency
Author:
Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-2021 author.
Edition:
First Free Press hardcover edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2018.

©2018
Physical Description:
xvii, 331 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:
"A revealing political memoir of the presidency of Gerald Ford as seen through the eyes of Donald Rumsfeld--the New York Times bestselling author, and Ford's former Secretary of Defense and Chief of Staff, and longtime personal confidant"--
Language:
English
Contents:
The long, national nightmare -- "Give me hell" -- The pardon -- Public enemy number one -- Choosing Rockefeller -- Morning coats and wolf furs: Ford abroad -- Neither confirm nor deny: the Glomar Explorer and the crisis in the CIA -- The Reagan shadow -- The fall of Vietnam -- Ford at the helm: The S.S. Mayaguez Crisis -- Commander in Chief -- Assassins' target-- The (so-called) Halloween massacre -- Rumble from the right -- The last campaign -- Epilogue.
ISBN:
9781501172939
Format :
Book