“On April 23 [2006], he [President Bush] paid a courtesy call on Gerald Ford at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, and the ninety-two-year-old former president took the opportunity to lecture him about what was going wrong in Iraq. Ford said he had supported the invasion but felt Bush had done a poor job explaining to the public why it was important and made a mistake by predicating the war on the supposed weapons [of mass destruction]. ‘I don’t think he admits it,’ Ford confided to the journalist Tom DeFrank after the meeting, ‘except that it’s a fact.’ ”
– Peter Baker, Days of Fire, Page 456