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"THE WAY BARBARA TOLD THE STORY" Ibid., 51.

BUSH'S PARENTS FLEW DOWN ATB, 66.

CLEANING THE HOUSE Author interview with BPB.

"I HAVE TO GET THIS IN THE MAIL" BPB diary and letters, Fall 1949.

"THE JOB CONTINUES" ATB, 6667.

"I HAVE IN THE BACK OF MY MIND" Ibid., 67. The original letter is GHWB to FitzGerald Bemiss, January 11, 1949, Correspondence Between George Bush and FitzGerald Bemiss, 194351, FITZ.

IN APRIL 1949, THE BUSHES LEFT TEXAS BB, 35.

BUSH WORKED ATB, 6869; LSY, 73.

"WHEN I PICK HIM UP AT WORK" BPB diary and letters, 194952.

AT 624 SOUTH SANTA FE IN COMPTON Ibid.

WORD OF A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT BB, 36.

MARVIN PIERCE HAD BEEN DRIVING NYT, September 24, 1949. My account is drawn from the NYT, as well as the Chicago Daily Tribune, September 24, 1949.

AN ENGLISH BONE CHINA CUP OF COFFEE NYT, September 24, 1949.

NOTICING THAT IT WAS ABOUT TO SPILL Ibid.

SWERVED LEFT AND FELL ONE HUNDRED FEET DOWN Ibid.

HER FATHER TOLD HER NOT TO COME EAST BB, 36.

"HE DID NOT WANT" Ibid.

PAULINE ROBINSON BUSH WAS BORN Ibid., 3637.

"BEAUTIFUL HAZEL EYES" LF, 56.

IDECO WANTED HIM BACK Ibid. See also BB, 37.

TO "LEARN THE OIL BUSINESS AND MAKE MONEY" LF, 21.

"YOU'VE COME TO THE WRONG TOWN" Ibid.

"WE ALL JUST WANTED" Ibid., 58.

BUSH RECEIVED A LETTER FROM 59 WALL STREET Tom McCance to GHWB, May 4, 1950, and June 29, 1950; and GHWB to Tom McCance, June 25, 1950, Bush, Personal File: Correspondence, Personal (General: Through December 1950), ZAP.

THINKING OF "NOTHING ELSE" ATB, 69.

BUSH WENT TO NEW YORK Ibid.

IT WAS NOT PRESCOTT'S FIRST POLITICAL TWITCH PSB, COHC, 4950; 5354.

SAMUEL F. PRYOR, A TOP PAN-AM EXECUTIVE See obituaries in NYT, September 19, 1985, and LAT, September 20, 1985.

MIGHT LIKE TO RUN PSB, COHC, 5354.

THE PARTNERSHIP DID NOT EMBRACE Ibid.

BECOMING THE REPUBLICANS' CONNECTICUT FINANCE CHAIRMAN Obituary of Prescott Bush, NYT, October 9, 1972.

IN THE SUMMER OF 1949 PSB, COHC, 52.

COMPOSED A SONG "Bush for Senator," Correspondence Between Prescott S. Bush and Charles M. Spofford 195059, and Miscellaneous Material About Prescott S. Bush, GHWB Post-Presidential Materials, GBPL.

ON THE SUNDAY BEFORE THE ELECTION Weisberg, Bush Tragedy, 20. Prescott Bush's account of the Pearson/birth control episode can be found at PSB, COHC, 6264.

PAMPHLETS APPEARED URGING ROMAN CATHOLIC VOTERS Herskowitz, Duty, Honor, Country, 8081. See also NYT, November 6, 1988.

BUSH DENIED BEING PRESIDENT Herskowitz, Duty, Honor, Country, 81. He was, rather, the treasurer of the 1947 fund drive for the "First Nationwide Planned Parenthood Campaign-1947." His name appeared on the organization's letterhead on a January 8, 1947, announcement of the national drive signed by Margaret Sanger. See file on Prescott Bush in the Drew Pearson Papers, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library.

ONE OF TWO STATES IN THE UNION NYT, December 28, 1947, and April 12, 1951.

BUSH LOST, NARROWLY Ibid., November 9, 1950.

"WE FELT TERRIBLY" ATB, 70.

TEN: I Push It Away, Push It Back WE CAN'T TOUCH HER ATB, 82.

TIME AFTER TIME BB, 46.

BUSH TOLD HIS IDECO BOSSES GHWB to R. L. Brummage, April 22, 1950, JB.

AFTER STAYS AT KINGSWAY COURTS BB, 37; GHWB to R. L. Brummage, May 19, 1950, JB.

"EASTER EGG ROW" LF, 58.

THE PRICE WAS $7,500 Ibid.

IN MIDLAND THERE WERE SANDSTORMS LSY, 78.

WHICH MEANT A LOT OF YOUNG FAMILIES LF, 5859.

JOHN OVERBEY, AN EASTER EGG ROW NEIGHBOR Ibid., 60. Wicker, GHWB, 814, covers Bush's business career well.

"CAUGHT THE FEVER" LF, 60.

THEY BOUGHT PERCENTAGES Ibid., 62.

THEY INVESTED IN "FARM-OUTS" Ibid., 6263.

EXPLAINING THE BUSINESS, BUSH IMAGINED Ibid., 63.

"IF I HIT, YOU'VE FOUND OUT" Ibid.

A NERVOUS BUSH MADE THE TRIP Ibid., 6061.

"UNCLE NEIL" REMOVED HIS EYEGLASSES AND CLEANED THEM Ibid., 61.

HE ROSE Ibid.

"I REALLY HATE TO SEE YOU GO" Ibid.

"I LEFT NEIL'S OFFICE" LF, 61.

FAMILY'S 1,500-SQUARE-FOOT HOUSE Author tour of George W. Bush Childhood Home, Midland, Texas.

THE ATTRACTION FOR INVESTORS LF, 63. See also GHWB to Godfrey B. Simonds, May 23, 1951, JB.

BUSH HIT NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON LF, 6566; ATB, 72.

NORTH DAKOTA, COLORADO, NEBRASKA, AND WYOMING ATB, 72.

PLAYED A VITAL ROLE Author interviews with GHWB, BPB, Nancy Bush Ellis, and G. H. Walker III. See also Weisberg, Bush Tragedy, 2429.

"HE ALMOST IDOLIZED" Author interview with G. H. Walker III.

SIX FOOT EXACTLY Ibid.

ALTERNATELY CHARMING AND COOL Ibid.

"HE HAD STRONG VIEWS ON PEOPLE" Ibid.

UNCLE HERBIE'S AFFECTION FOR Ibid.

"'DOTTY DOESN'T DO THINGS THAT WAY'" Ibid.

"HIS DEVOTION TO GEORGE" Ibid.

HERBIE RAN G. H. WALKER Ibid.

EUGENE MEYER, THE FINANCIER LF, 6566.

OVER BREAKFAST AT MEYER'S HOUSE Ibid.

"WHAT I REMEMBER" Ibid.

"OKAY, PUT ME DOWN" Ibid., 66.

"YOU SAY THIS IS A GOOD" Ibid.

VOLUNTEERING FOR IKE IN MIDLAND Ibid., 80.

IN THIS SECOND BID PSB, COHC, 189.

THEY PASSED ONE OF THE MANY BILLBOARDS Ibid., 226.

"YOU'RE IN A JAM WITH ABRAHAM" Ibid., 22627.

"IT WAS ONE OF THOSE THINGS" Ibid., 227.

"IF I'D WANTED TO BE ANTI-SEMITIC" Ibid.

DURING THE '52 CAMPAIGN James T. Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 19451974 (New York, 1996), 196.

FEATURED SPEAKER AT A RALLY Herskowitz, Duty, Honor, Country, 123124.

BEGINNING WITH A SPEECH AT WHEELING Patterson, Grand Expectations, 196.

THE NUMBERS WOULD CHANGE Ibid.

DROVES SHOWED UP TO HEAR HIM Herskowitz, Duty, Honor, Country, 127.

SEATED ONSTAGE WITH McCARTHY Ibid.

WHEN BUSH'S TURN CAME Ibid.

"I SAID THAT I WAS VERY GLAD" Ibid., 12728.

"BUT, I MUST SAY IN ALL CANDOR" Ibid., 128.

THE CROWD TURNED PSB, COHC, 1012; Herskowitz, Duty, Honor, Country, 128.

EISENHOWER DEFEATED ADLAI STEVENSON Congress and the Nation, 19451964: A Review of Government and Politics in the Postwar Years. Congressional Quarterly Service, Washington D.C., 1965, 13.

BUSH BESTED RIBICOFF BY THIRTY THOUSAND VOTES Ibid., 75.

LEASED QUARTERS AT THE WARDMAN PSB, COHC, 91.

SENATOR HARRY BYRD Ibid.

THE PRESIDENT OFTEN INVITED Author interview with GHWB; Herskowitz, Duty, Honor, Country, 105106.

A DELEGATION OF POSTAL WORKERS PSB, COHC, 132.

NEWS SOON ARRIVED FROM TEXAS BB, 38.

BARBARA TURNED THE FAMILY'S SUNROOM Author tour of George W. Bush's Childhood Home, Midland, Tex.