Chronicling the mid-1970s up session with Gerald Ford’s clumsiness, the author quotes a medieval maxim that the king has two bodies. The head of state has a physical body like everyone else, but he also represents the body politic, either reflecting its majesty or its weakness.

Chronicling the mid-1970s up session with Gerald Ford’s clumsiness, the author quotes a medieval maxim that the king has two bodies. The head of state has a physical body like everyone else, but he also represents the body politic, either reflecting its majesty or its weakness.

– Rick Perlstein –

The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

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