Historic Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald Ford

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Gerald Ford talked frequently with Thomas DeFrank, from 1991 to shortly before his death in 2006, in a way in which few presidents ever have. Write it When I’m Gone records Gerald Ford’s musings on Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, both Bush administrations, his own life and passions, and much more.

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