Hard to believe it has been 40 years, I am old enough to remember when it happened.
Politico has an excellent series of photos from inside the Ford administration, none of which I had ever seen, definitely worth checking out:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/gal...7.html?hp=t4_r
some samples:
1. receiving bad news:
2. briefing by the CIA:
3. after making the decision to evacuate:
. 4 Kissinger announces the evacuation is done ( notice Cheney and Greenspan in the back, Rumsfeld in the foreground )
4. turns out 11 marines had been left behind. Ford gets an update:
5. celebrating after the evacuation is complete:
