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During his long ordeal, Douglas, who has few intimates, confided only in his wife, former Presidential Adviser Clark Clifford and former Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, who wrote the earlier, misleadingly optimistic press releases on Douglas' health. The four decided that Douglas should get a second opinion from Rehabilitation...
From the snowy day ten months ago when Albert L. Nickerson '33 announced his plans to retire as a Fellow of Harvard College, University officials looking for his successor saw caution as the better part of corporate valor.
The rumors messed up Ford's announcement plans. By Saturday night the inquiries were so persistent that Ford decided he must inform Schlesinger and Colby that they were through. "It was the humane thing to do," a top White House aide later explained. Presidential Counsellor John Marsh called Schlesinger to...
Ford told Schlesinger that he wanted Rumsfeld to replace him but that Rumsfeld had not yet agreed. Schlesinger was offered the presidency of the Export-Import Bank and, alternatively, the ambassadorship to NATO. He turned down both and left after 30 minutes ?stunned. (Learning later that his job had...
Thus the only alternative was a "temporary" transfer of power to Juan Carlos-maintaining the fiction that Franco retained ultimate authority and might even recover from his illness. The trouble with the plan was that Juan Carlos, at least at first, would have none of it. He had served in...