1. Douglas Brinkley, "Of Ladders and Letters," Time, April 24, 2000.

2. Rumsfeld, "Memorandum: Meeting with the President," April 29, 1975, 15:42.

3. Ron Nessen, It Sure Looks Different from the Inside (Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1978), p. 110.

4. Rumsfeld, "Meeting with the President," April 29, 1975, 17:10.

5. Kissinger, news conference, April 29, 1975 (The Department of State Bulletin, vol. LXXII, no. 1873, May 19, 1975).

6. Rumsfeld, "Meeting with the President," April 30, 1975, 8:31 a.m.

7. Ron Nessen, It Sure Looks Different from the Inside (Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1978), p. 113.

8. Rumsfeld, "Meeting with the President," April 30, 1975, 10:00 a.m.

9. General Fred C. Weyand, "Report to the President of the United States on the Situation in South Vietnam," and cover memo, April 4, 1975 (Gerald R. Ford Library, National Security Adviser, Presidential Country Files for East Asia and the Pacific, Box 19, Folder: "Vietnam [13]").

10. Rumsfeld, "Meeting with the President: National Security Council Meeting in the Cabinet Room," May 12, 1975.

11. Comptroller General of the United States, "The Seizure of the Mayaguez - A Case Study of Crisis Management" (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976), p. 63.

12. Rumsfeld to Ford, "Cambodia," May 14, 1975.

13. Rumsfeld, "Meeting with the President," May 14, 1975; Rumsfeld to Ford, "Cambodia," May 14, 1975.

14. Rumsfeld, "Meeting with the President: National Security Council Meeting on Cambodia," May 14, 1975.

15. Richard J. Levine, "Success of Mayaguez Recovery Bolsters Ford's Political Stock, Military Morale," Wall Street Journal, May 16, 1975.