When the center held
Subtitle: Gerald Ford and the rescue of the American presidency
By: Donald Rumsfeld
Edition: First Free Press hardcover edition.
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9781501172939; 9781501172953
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Politics and government; Presidents; Biography
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The long, national nightmare; title: "Give me hell"; title: The pardon; title: Public enemy number one; title: Choosing Rockefeller; title: Morning coats and wolf furs: Ford abroad; title: Neither confirm nor deny: the Glomar and the crisis in the CIA; title: The Reagan shadow; title: The fall of Vietnam; title: Ford at the helm: The S.S. Mayaguez Crisis; title: Commander-in-Chief; title: Near misses; title: The (so-called) Halloween massacre; title: Reagan on the right; title: The last campaign.