Memories of the Ford Administration

Memories of the Ford AdministrationBy: John Updike When historian Alfred Alf Clayton is invited by an academic journal to record his impressions of the Gerald R. Ford Administration (197477), he recalls not the political events of the time but rather a turbulent period of his own sexual past. Alfs highly idiosyncratic contribution to Retrospect consists not only of reams of unbuttoned personal history but also of pages from an unpublished project of the time, a chronicle of the

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a war that left over 20 million dead and was the lead-up to World War II barely twenty years later

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one student lingers to take a photo of a treasure chest and falls into a deep ravine

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