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| List of Maps | |
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| Foreword | |
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| A Ford, Not a Lincoln | |
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| The Changing of the Guard | |
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| The New President | |
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| The Domestic Crisis | |
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| Ford and Congress | |
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| Ford and the National Interest | |
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| The Nixon Legacy | |
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| The Man and the Organization | |
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| At the Edge of Greatness | |
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| The President and His Adviser | |
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| Nixon and the Establishment | |
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| Nixon the Person | |
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| The Taping System | |
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| The Operation of the Nixon White House | |
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| The National Security Council System | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Controversy over D�tente | |
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| What Was D�tente? | |
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| The Attack on Nixon's Foreign Policy: The Liberal Challenge | |
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| The Conservative Critique | |
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| Senator Henry Jackson and D�tente: Strategy and Arms Control | |
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| Jackson, Arms Control, and Jewish Emigration | |
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| Arms Control | |
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| Jewish Emigration from the Soviet Union | |
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| China and Its Leaders | |
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| Two Styles of Diplomacy | |
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| Mao Zedong | |
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| Zhou EnlaiDeng Xiaoping | |
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| Ford at the Helm | |
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| The New Presidency | |
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| The Transition | |
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| The Ford Team | |
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| Ford and His Secretary of State | |
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| Cyprus, a Case Study in Ethnic Conflict | |
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| The Nature of Ethnic Conflicts | |
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| Makarios: The Wily Archbishop | |
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| Greek-Turkish Minuets | |
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| Cyprus Erupts | |
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| The Turkish Invasion | |
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| The Second Turkish Intervention | |
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| Congress and Cyprus | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| East-West Relations | |
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| Ford Inherits the Debate over D�tente | |
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| Hearings on D�tente | |
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| The Debate on Arms Control Resumes | |
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| Jewish Emigration from the Soviet Union | |
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| A Visit with Brezhnev | |
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| Brezhnev and the Kremlin Leaders | |
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| The Kremlin's Perspective on D�tenteIn the Politburo Chambers | |
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| A Step Toward a Breakthrough | |
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| Nuclear Condominium | |
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| Vladivostok and the Crisis in American-Soviet Relations | |
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| Arrival in Vladivostok | |
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| First Plenary Meeting | |
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| The Aftermath of Vladivostok: D�tente Under Stress | |
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| Jewish Emigration and the Collapse of the Trade Bill | |
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| Final Note | |
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| The Intelligence Investigations | |
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| Prelude to the Investigations | |
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| Ford Charts a Course | |
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| The Rockefeller Commission | |
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| The Church Committee | |
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| The Pike CommitteeWas There an Intelligence Scandal and What Was the Outcome? | |
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| Breakthrough in the Middle East | |
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| Ford and Middle East Diplomacy | |
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| The Cauldron | |
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| Forging a New Strategy | |
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| The Jordanian Option | |
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| The Egyptian Option | |
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| Hussein and the Peace Process | |
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| Two More Arab Visitors: Syria and Saudi Arabia | |
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| Rabin Visits Ford | |
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| The Rabat Decision | |
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| One Shuttle Too Many | |
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| Post-Rabat Blues | |
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| The Exploratory Shuttle | |
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| The Shuttle That Failed | |
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| Sinai II and the Road to Peace"Reassessment" | |
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| The Resumption of Step-by-Step Policy | |
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| Ford and Sadat | |
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| Ford and Rabin: Another Encounter | |
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| Forging a New Initiative | |
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| Another Shuttle | |
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| The Leaders and the Outcome | |
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| Collapse in Indochina, Tragedy of the Kurds | |
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| Indochina Tragedy -- The Beginning of the End | |
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| The Strangulation of Vietnam | |
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| Ford and Vietnam | |
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| Hanoi's Buildup | |
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| Hanoi Resumes the Offensive | |
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| The End of the Road | |
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| The Collapse of Cambodia | |
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| The Myth of the Failure to Negotiate on Cambodia | |
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| The Final Collapse | |
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| The End of Vietnam | |
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| The Debate over Evacuation | |
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| The Search for a Political Solution | |
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| The Evacuation | |
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| The Last Day | |
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| Anatomy of a Crisis: The Mayaguez How to Liberate a ShipT | |
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| he Freeing of the Mayaguez | |
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| Postmortems | |
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| Tragedy of the Kurds | |
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| Origins of the Program | |
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| Internal Controversies | |
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| The End of Kurdish Autonomy | |
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| The Collapse of Kurdish Resistance | |
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| The Atlantic Relationship | |
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| The Restoration of Western Unity | |
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| Harold Wilson and James Callaghan: The Operation of the Special Relationship | |
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| Helmut Schmidt and Hans-Dietrich Genscher: Alliance and Unification | |
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| Val�ry Giscard d'Estaing -- France: Ally or Gadfly? | |
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| Eurocommunism and the Atlantic Alliance | |
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| The European Security Conference | |
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| Aleksandr Solzhenits | |