The President, A Minute-by-minute Account of a Week in the Life of Gerald Ford

The President has given me permission to take a kind of voyage with himto watch him closely through a working week....I will be with him, most of the time, hour in and hour out.... At 8:33 on a rainy Monday in March, 1975, John Hersey sits down on a straight cane-backed chair in the Oval Office to begin soaking up impressions of what happensin post-Watergate Washingtonat the center of American power. Through five and a half days, he will stay close to the President, observing him as he consults with his own staff, with members of Congress, with his Cabinet, with Rockefeller; watching him on the exercise bike, at the barber's, greeting Miss America: absorbing his confidences as he talks after dinner, in the private quarters of the White House, about his childhood and about his college years when it was difficult to make ends meet. Following the President, Hersey observes in detail all the important momentsas well as the...