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"I WANT (THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S) CONSERVATISM TO BE" The Wall Street Journal, September 21, 1966.

BUSH WON THE GENERAL ELECTION DMN, November 9, 1966; LSY, 12122. Reflecting on the '66 campaign, Bush recalled, "The demographics were good, but it was an uphill fight. Briscoe was a conservative Democrat, a hardline prosecutor. But we out-hustled the other guys. I wasn't bad at it. I liked the personal interaction. I was a pretty good campaigner." (Author interview with GHWB.) BRISCOE CONCEDED BY TEN P.M. DMN, November 9, 1966.

IT HAD BEEN A BAD NIGHT Jonathan Darman, Landslide: LBJ, Reagan, and the Dawn of a New America (New York, 2014), offers an insightful account of 1966 and its significance.

THEIR NEW WASHINGTON HOUSE Author interview with BPB.

OUT TO A NEARBY SEARS BPB diary, January 3, 1967.

BETWEEN JANUARY AND APRIL Ibid., April 11, 1967.

IN HOUSE VOTES J. Michael Sharp, ed., Directory of Congressional Voting Scores and Interest Group Ratings, 4th ed., vol. 1 (Washington, D.C., 2006), 22324.

WHEN RICHARD NIXON BECAME PRESIDENT Ibid.

"I KNOW YOU ARE SWAMPED" ATB, 9798.

AS THE NEW CONGRESS WAS FORMING NYT, January 26, 1967. See also San Antonio Express and News, January 22, 1967; DMN, January 26, 1967; LSY, 12426.

"BY CHOOSING BUSH" DMN, January 26, 1967.

BUSH WAS THE FIRST FRESHMAN Ibid.

PRESCOTT BUSH HAD PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE LAT, November 22, 1987.

"HIS FATHER CAME TO ME" Walt Harrington, American Profiles: Somebodies and Nobodies Who Matter (Columbia, Mo., 1992), 158.

"YOUR DAD WAS HERE LAST WEEK" BPB diary, January 25, 1967.

"THERE'S A LOT OF LUCK" ATB, 101.

DOROTHY AND PRESCOTT BUSH TOOK OVER THE F STREET CLUB BPB diary, January 18 and 29, 1967.

BUSH'S LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES Naftali, GHWB, 1621, and LSY, 12326, are illuminating overviews of GHWB's House career.

WHILE HE OPPOSED San Antonio Light, January 28, 1967.

"A TAX CREDIT" Ibid.

THE COSTS OF THE VIETNAM WAR DMN, June 8, 1967.

"UNPOPULAR THOUGH IT MAY BE" Ibid.

DURING A PRE-WEDDING PARTY BPB diary, November 8, 1967.

"MR. PRESIDENT," BUSH SAID Ibid.

"GEORGE, MRS. JOHNSON AND I" Ibid.

IN THE FALL OF 1967 Ibid., November 10, 1967.

"DOES POP WANT" Ibid., November 20, 1967.

THANKSGIVING 1967 AT HILLBROOK LANE Ibid., November 27, 1967.

BY YEAR'S END BUSH HAD DECIDED ATB, 104.

BUSH VISITED VIETNAM LSY, 12832; BPB diary, JanuaryFebruary, 1967; ATB, 105.

"TONIGHT OUR NATION" Lyndon B. Johnson: "Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union.," January 17, 1968. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=28738.

"BECAUSE WHEN A GREAT SHIP" Ibid.

CBS BROADCAST A REPUBLICAN REPLY Chicago Tribune, January 24, 1968; NYT, January 24, 1968.

EISENHOWER INTRODUCED THE PROGRAM WITH A PRERECORDED MESSAGE NYT, January 24, 1968.

BUSH WAS ASSIGNED THE QUESTION Chicago Tribune, January 24, 1968.

HAD OFFERED "NO SENSE OF SACRIFICE" NYT, January 24, 1968.

THE OVERALL REVIEWS OF THE PROGRAM WERE UNDERWHELMING Chicago Tribune, January 24, 1968. Referring to California senator George Murphy, as "in effect, the master of ceremonies," Gowran wrote. "He and the G.O.P. got carried away. The result was a procession of too many persons to the microphones, and the show lost effectiveness because of the parade." (Ibid.) "BUSH, A WHOLESOME YOUNG MAN" Ibid. Bush pressed his Republican colleagues to take detailed alternative stands rather than simply opposing the president. At a dinner with Bush's sister, Nancy Bush Ellis, several other congressmen, and White House press secretary George Christian, Bush said "it was constructive for the Republicans to come up with specific cuts," Christian wrote in a memorandum LBJ later read.

"Bush's sister, incidentally, is a Democrat," Christian wrote. "She said she was for the President and wished her brother George had become a Democrat when he moved to Texas." (George Christian, "Memorandum for Barefoot Sanders," March 6, 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library.)

FAIR HOUSING ACT OF 1968 http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/FHLaws/yourrights.

HIS MAIL...WAS VICIOUS Big Spring Herald, April 18, 1968. See also ATB, 107.

RECEIVED FIVE HUNDRED LETTERS ATB, 107.

A BILL THAT WOULD HAVE BANNED RIOTERS NYT, April 12, 1968.

HIS LIFE WAS THREATENED WP, April 19, 1968.

HE DENOUNCED THE "HATRED AND VENOM" Big Spring Herald, April 18, 1968.

"THAT ANYONE WOULD RESORT" Ibid.

"THERE WAS A REALLY RICH GUY" Author interview with GHWB.

"I VOTED FOR THE BILL" ATB, 111.

CAME HOME FROM THE OFFICE WITH "TUMMY TROUBLES" BPB diary, May 7, 1968. 138 "HE GOT INTO BED" Ibid.

THE SHOWDOWN CAME IN HOUSTON LSY, 132. See also GWB, 41, 8789.

AT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL Houston Chronicle, April 18, 1968.

ATTACKED AS A "'NIGGER-LOVER'" ATB, 108.

"WHAT THIS BILL DOES" Ibid., 109.

IN VIETNAM I CHATTED Ibid., 10910.

ABOARD AN EVENING FLIGHT Ibid., 111.

"I STARTED TO CRY" Ibid.

HE PAID A CALL ON DEMONSTRATORS DMN, May 23, 1968.

"I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS" Ibid.

BUSH PRAISED PASO DMN, July 13, 1967.

BUSH TOLD PASO'S CONVENTION Ibid.

A FOUR-POINT PROGRAM Wichita Falls Times, March 29, 1968; DMN, January 30, 1968.

"WE MUST DEMONSTRATE" Wichita Falls Times, March 29, 1968.

MEXICAN AMERICANS ARE "ESSENTIALLY" DMN, January 30, 1968.

REPUBLICANS NEEDED TO PAY MORE ATTENTION Wichita Falls Times, March 29, 1968.

"WE NEED TO MAKE" "Bush Leads Effort for Birth Curbs," DMN, February 26, 1969. See also Big Spring Daily Herald, March 10, 1969.

"POPULATION CONTROL AND FAMILY PLANNING" Brownwood Bulletin, September 10, 1969.

HE CREDITED HIS INTEREST IN THE ISSUE Ibid.

PROPOSING THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DMN, October 17, 1969.

HIS INTEREST IN LEGISLATION LSY, 13335; Naftali, GHWB, 18.

"FAMILY-PLANNING SERVICES" LSY, 134.

LED WILBUR MILLS TO REFER TO BUSH AS "RUBBERS" LSY, 134; Naftali, GHWB, 18.

ON RACE RELATIONS The Baytown Sun, July 15, 1968.

A TASTE FOR WHITE OWL CIGARS Marshall Frady, Wallace (New York, 1968), 2.

"THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS TOO MUCH MORE" The Galveston Daily News, July 14, 1968.

SOMETHING OF A "LEFT-OF-CENTER IMAGE" LAT, June 5, 1968.

AWAKENED AT FOUR A.M. BPB diary, June 1968.

"A NIGHTMARE" Ibid.

THE IDEA HAD REPORTEDLY ORIGINATED LAT, June 5, 1968. See also LSY, 13536.

(GRAHAM HAD GOTTEN TO KNOW) Billy Graham, Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham (San Francisco, 1997), 587; Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity (New York, 2012), 375.

"THIS POSSIBILITY IS BASED PARTLY" LAT, June 5, 1968.

AN UNNAMED "TEXAS INDUSTRIALIST" Ibid.

REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN FLETCHER THOMPSON Ibid.

NIXON'S "WEAK SPOTS" Ibid.

BUSH WAS ALSO LISTED NYT, June 30, 1968. Bill Steiger and Bill Liedtke also weighed in on Bush's behalf with Nixon. (Representative William A. Steiger to Richard Nixon, June 19, 1968, and William C. Liedtke, Jr., to Richard Nixon, July 16, 1968, Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library.) TOM DEWEY PROMOTED LSY, 135; Gibbs and Duffy, Presidents Club, 37576; The New Yorker, October 5, 1992.

REAGAN STOPPED IN TEXAS EN ROUTE BPB diary, July 19, 1968.

"HE HAS ALL THE POISE" Ibid.

CONGRESSMAN BUSH HAD ENDORSED NIXON DMN, July 9, 1968.

"I AM EXPECTING" BPB diary, July 18, 1968.

"MOST ATTRACTIVE" Ibid., summer 1968.

IN FLORIDA, THE BUSHES STAYED Ibid., August 3, 1968.

GREETED BY A BANNER Ibid.

THE SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF REPUBLICAN STATE CHAIRMEN DMN, August 3, 1968.

ANY OF THE THREE Ibid.

"I'VE NEVER UNDERSTOOD" Ibid., August 4, 1968.

HAD SHIPPED TWO THOUSAND The Wall Street Journal, August 7, 1968.

"OUR PHONES RANG OFF THE HOOK" BPB diary, summer 1968.

A FRIEND OF GEORGE'S YOUNGEST BROTHER Ibid.