Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. Secretary of Defense who died today at age 88, played a key role in torpedoing New Jersey Rep. Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen’s bid for House Minority Whip in 1966. The same campaign put Gerald R. Ford...
A contested race for House Minority Leader placed Gerald Ford on a path that landed him in the White House, but largely forgotten in that story was that Ford’s running mate, Peter Frelinghuysen (R-Harding), lost his bid for Minority Whip....