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  1. IMO, this review of Donald Rumsfeld's book on the Gerald Ford presidency by @WalterIsaacson misses the mark re how intense and fascinating the events of his brief presidency was. washingtonpost.com/outlook/when-a-president-exhibited-empathy-honesty-humility-and-politeness/2018/06/01/4845e52e-3364-11e8-8abc-22a366b72f2d_story.html /1
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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      That was when the post-WW2 imperial presidency was collapsing as Congress work up amid the fallout from Watergate and Vietnam and the Church Committee was in full swing, dragging decades of intelligence abuses into the light as the executive branch screamed /2
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        That was when Saigon fell and the fight arose over whether to go back into Vietnam to try to save it (review does mention this lower). That was when Ronald Reagan mounted his insurgent bid for the GOP presidential nomination and almost beat Ford, setting up 1980 /3
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          Much of the second chapter of my book TAKEOVER is about the shaping of Dick Cheney's views on executive power during his formative years as a young but senior Ford administration White House official. Read it for free here: /4 charliesavage.com/?page_id=235
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