The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.
“I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.”
“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”