James_M._Cannon--Gerald_Rudolph_Ford

James M. Cannon (February 26, 1918 – September 15, 2011) was an American historian, author and former assistant to the President of the United States for foreign affairs during the Gerald Ford administration. Before his work with Ford, he was an aide to the governor of New York and vice president, Nelson D. Rockefeller after a career as a journalist. After leaving the White House at the end of the Ford Administration, Cannon became Ford's official biographer, publishing Time and Chance: Gerald Ford's Appointment with History.