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Author : John Robert Greene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:49015002199959
"Riveting from start to finish". -- Herbert S. Parmet, author of Richard Nixon and His America.
Author : Mark J. Rozell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0472103504
Examines the press's treatment of Gerald Ford's presidency
Author : Andrew Downer Crain
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786452996
Though he occupied the oval office for less than three years, Gerald Ford made several key political decisions that helped reunite the country following the divisions over the Vietnam War and helped restore the faith of Americans in their government following the Watergate scandal. This book provides a complete history of Ford's presidency from August 9, 1974, to January 20, 1977 (with two chapters on the Nixon administration events leading up to Ford's succession).
Author : Donald Rumsfeld
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501172946
“A personal look behind the scenes” (Publishers Weekly) of the presidency of Gerald Ford as seen through the eyes of Donald Rumsfeld—New York Times bestselling author and Ford’s former Secretary of Defense, Chief of Staff, and longtime personal confidant. In the wake of Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, it seemed the United States was coming apart. America had experienced a decade of horrifying assassinations; the unprecedented resignation of first a vice president and then a president of the United States; intense cultural and social change; and a new mood of cynicism sweeping the country—a mood that, in some ways, lingers today. Into that divided atmosphere stepped an unexpected, unelected, and largely unknown American—Gerald R. Ford. In contrast to every other individual who had ever occupied the Oval Office, he had never appeared on any ballot either for the presidency or the vice presidency. Ford simply and humbly performed his duty to the best of his considerable ability. By the end of his 895 days as president, he would in fact have restored balance to our country, steadied the ship of state, and led his fellow Americans out of the national trauma of Watergate. And yet, Gerald Ford remains one of the least studied and least understood individuals to have held the office of the President of the United States. In turn, his legacy also remains severely underappreciated. In When the Center Held, Ford’s Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld candidly shares his personal observations of the man himself, providing a sweeping examination of his crucial years in office. It is a rare and fascinating look behind the closed doors of the Oval Office, including never-before-seen photos, memos, and anecdotes, from a unique insider’s perspective—“engrossing and informative” (Kirkus Reviews) reading for any fan of presidential history.
Author : Jerald F. TerHorst
Publisher : New York : Third Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015000534647
Author : Gerald R. Ford
Publisher : Arbor House Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038295197
The former President's favorite funny stories and anecdotes are accompanied by political cartoons and political humor by Art Buchwald, Chevy Chase, Mark Russell, and Bob Orben, as well as sharp-witted policians.
Author : Graeme Stewart Mount,Mark Gauthier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015064698577
When asked why he pardoned Nixon, Ford simply replied "it was the right thing to do."
Author : Patrick Buck
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783656448822
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Region: USA, grade: 2, University of Wyoming (Political Science), language: English, abstract: Gerald Ford came to the Presidency very surprisingly. Before and after Richard Nixon’s resignation following the Watergate affair, he did not have a lot of time to create his own policies or structure his own administration within the White House. Three transition groups were working on the structural preparation for the Presidency, one of them started secretly several months before Ford had to take over the office - just in case. But they were all facing the problem that they did not have the amount of time normally given to a future President between the election and the inauguration to develop a plan for the advisory structure. Ford and his Vice-presidential staff jumped into a running government which was created for the personal needs and around the work style of a President Nixon. They could not fire the whole Nixon staff at the same time without the risk of leading the country into an incapability of action until a new staff system had been built up. And they could not keep all the Nixon people who were loyal to the former President and were probably not able to work the way the new President wanted them to. Ford and his advisers decided to go a middle way which will be analyzed later. This paper will focus on how the advisory structure Ford chose, or was forced to choose, influenced him in his decision making process. The main source will be the biography of John Robert Greene, The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford. The thesis will be that Ford’s way to make a decision, as he was used to from his congressional career, did not match with the structure the Presidency forced him to use and led him too often to ineffective decisions.
Author : Kenneth W. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038454984
Author : Richard Norton Smith
Publisher : Briscoe Ctr for Amer History Ut-Austin
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015069971680
A fascinating, behind-the-scenes documentary record of Gerald Ford's presidency by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Hume Kennerly.
Author : James Cannon
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472029464
“Not since Harry Truman succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt twenty-nine years earlier had the American people known so little about a man who had stepped forward from obscurity to take the oath of office as President of the United States.” —from Chapter 4 This is a comprehensive narrative account of the life of Gerald Ford written by one of his closest advisers, James Cannon. Written with unique insight and benefiting from personal interviews with President Ford in his last years, Gerald R. Ford: An Honorable Lifeis James Cannon’s final look at the simple and honest man from the Midwest.
Author : Douglas Brinkley
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429933410
The "accidental" president whose innate decency and steady hand restored the presidency after its greatest crisis When Gerald R. Ford entered the White House in August 1974, he inherited a presidency tarnished by the Watergate scandal, the economy was in a recession, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close, and he had taken office without having been elected. Most observers gave him little chance of success, especially after he pardoned Richard Nixon just a month into his presidency, an action that outraged many Americans, but which Ford thought was necessary to move the nation forward. Many people today think of Ford as a man who stumbled a lot--clumsy on his feet and in politics--but acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley shows him to be a man of independent thought and conscience, who never allowed party loyalty to prevail over his sense of right and wrong. As a young congressman, he stood up to the isolationists in the Republican leadership, promoting a vigorous role for America in the world. Later, as House minority leader and as president, he challenged the right wing of his party, refusing to bend to their vision of confrontation with the Communist world. And after the fall of Saigon, Ford also overruled his advisers by allowing Vietnamese refugees to enter the United States, arguing that to do so was the humane thing to do. Brinkley draws on exclusive interviews with Ford and on previously unpublished documents (including a remarkable correspondence between Ford and Nixon stretching over four decades), fashioning a masterful reassessment of Gerald R. Ford's presidency and his underappreciated legacy to the nation.
Author : Mary Mueller Winget
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822588047
In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, then Vice President Gerald Ford became the first person to succeed a president who had resigned from office. Although Ford’s presidency lasted only three years, he worked diligently to heal a country from war, inflation, and controversy. Ford began a career serving his country in World War II, eventually becoming a lieutenant commander in the Navy. In 1948 he was elected to the United States Congress, where he served with distinction for the next 25 years. During the Watergate investigations in 1973, the vice president resigned and Ford stepped into that office. When President Richard Nixon resigned a short time later, Ford became the first president that was not officially elected by the country. Ford is largely credited with restoring the country’s faith in office after a tumultuous decade.
Author : Yanek Mieczkowski
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813138473
A reappraisal of the brief presidency of Gerald Ford, called to leadership in the midst of scandal, stagflation, and an energy crisis. For many Americans, Gerald Ford evokes an image of either an unelected president who abruptly pardoned his corrupt predecessor or an accident-prone klutz spoofed on Saturday Night Live. In this book, Yanek Mieczkowski reexamines Ford’s two and a half years in office, showing that his presidency successfully confronted the most vexing crisis of the postwar era. Viewing the 1970s primarily through the lens of economic events, Mieczkowski argues that Ford’s understanding of the national economy was better than any modern president’s; that he oversaw a dramatic reduction of inflation; and that he attempted to solve the energy crisis with judicious policies. Throughout his presidency, Ford labored under the legacy of Watergate. Democrats scored landslide victories in the 1974 midterm elections, and within an anemic Republican Party, the right wing challenged Ford’s leadership, even as pundits predicted the GOP’s death. Yet Ford reinvigorated the party and fashioned a 1976 campaign strategy against Jimmy Carter that brought him from thirty points behind to a dead heat on election day. Drawing on numerous personal interviews with former President Ford, cabinet officials, and members of the Ninety-fourth Congress, Mieczkowski presents the first major work on Ford in more than a decade, combining the best of biography and presidential history to paint an intriguing portrait of a president, his times, and his legacy. “This ambitious work calls for a reexamination of the Ford presidency in light of the formidable challenges he faced upon taking office. A welcome and important addition to the literature on the Ford presidency.” ―Library Journal
Author : Dom Bonafede,Richard E. Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Presidents
ISBN : UOM:39015071144128
