Write It When I'm Gone Remarkable Off-The-Record Conversations With Gerald R. Ford

Thomas M. DeFrank, Scott Brick

eAudio - 2007

In an extraordinary series of private interviews, conducted over sixteen years with the stipulation that they not be released until after Gerald Ford’s death, the thirty-eighth president of the United States reveals a profoundly different side of himself: funny, reflective, gossipy, strikingly candid–and the stuff of headlines.In 1974, the award-winning journalist and author Thomas DeFrank, then a young correspondent for Newsweek, was interviewing Ford when the Vice President blurted out something astonishingly indiscreet related to the White House, came around his desk, grabbed DeFrank’s tie, and told the reporter he could not leave the room until he promised not to publish it. “Write it when I’m dead,” Ford said–and that agr...eement formed the basis of their relationship for the next thirty-two years.During that time, they talked frequently, but from 1991 to shortly before Ford’s death in 2006, the interviews became something... more