Volume 26, Number 12 · July 19, 1979
Red Flannel Days
By Nicholas von Hoffman
A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford
Harper & Row, 454 pp., $12.95
Martha: The Life of Martha Mitchell
by Winzola McLendon
Random House, 400 pp., $12.95
Confession and Avoidance: A Memoir
by Leon Jaworski, with Mickey Herskowitz
Anchor/Doubleday, 325 pp., $10.95
To Set the Record Straight: The Break-in, the Tapes, the Conspirators, the Pardon
by John J. Sirica
Norton, 391 pp., $15.00
A Time for Truth
by William E. Simon
Berkley, 280 pp., $2.50 (paper)
'About three o'clock next morning,' Jerry Ford writes in his memoirs, 'I was awakened from a sound sleep by a very wet kiss. I opened my eyes. Liberty was wagging her tail, and I knew what that [author's italics] meant. Groggily, I slipped on my robe and my slippers, took the elevator to the ground floor and walked outside. There I waited until Liberty was ready to return. We stepped inside again, and I pressed the button for the elevator. Nothing happened. Someone had just cut back the power, I figured, so I said, 'Liberty, let's walk.' I opened the door to my left, and we climbed the stairs to the second floor. At the top of the stairwell was a door that led to our family quarters. I turned the knob, but it was locked. Liberty and I walked back down to the first floor, and I tried to open the door there. It was locked too. I must have walked up and down those stairs several times. This is ridiculous, I thought. So I started pounding on the walls.'
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