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AGNEW RESIGNED LSY, 162.

BUSH HAD BEEN MENTIONED Potter, Lee Ann and Wynell Schamel, "Letter from House of Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford to President M. Nixon." Social Education 65, 2 (March 2001), 116120. Potter and Schamel write that Nixon "received hundreds of letters from members of Congress listing potential nominees" for vice president. "Suggestions included Nelson Rockefeller, governor of New York; John Connally, former governor of Texas; William P. Rogers, secretary of state; George Bush, chairman of the Republican National Committee; Barry Goldwater, senator from Arizona; and Mel Laird, secretary of defense." (Ibid.) AS HAD AN OLD HOUSE COLLEAGUE Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown: A Memoir (New York, 2011), 15253.

BRIGHT, AMBITIOUS, AND SELF-CONFIDENT Ibid., 37, 47.

AS A WRESTLER Ibid., 48.

AFTER GRADUATING IN 1954 Ibid., 5865, 120122, 130, 13940, 145.

BY OCTOBER 1973, NIXON WAS LOSING See J. Anthony Lukas, Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years (New York, 1976), 43841; Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (New York, 1990), 40611; David Broder, "Nixon Political Clout Shrinks," WP, October 22, 1973.

NIXON CLAIMED THAT ATB, 172.

"I AM APPALLED" Ibid.

"EXTREMELY COMPLICATED TIMES" Ibid., 176.

A REJECTION BY THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW SCHOOL BPB diary, January 20, 1971.

LEFT HIM "IN SHOCK" Ibid.

"BAINE SAYS THAT GEORGE" Ibid., January 31, 1971.

"HE SAYS THAT IT IS POLITICAL" Ibid.

AFTER A PENTAGON SCREENING Ibid., January 21, 1971.

"PROMPTLY WANTED TO GO" Ibid.

"HE IS REALLY WORRYING" Ibid.

THERE WAS QUIET SPECULATION Ibid., October 1, 1971.

"HE IS VERY SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING RUNNING" Ibid.

HE WOULD HAVE FACED Author interview with GWB.

"WE HOPE HE'LL FEEL SETTLED" BPB diary, January 7, 1972.

JEB HAD SPENT SEVERAL MONTHS IN THE WINTER OF 197071 WP, January 22, 1989.

"JEBBY IS GOING TO NEED" ATB, 143.

IN MEXICO, JEB MET AND FELL INSTANTLY IN LOVE WP, January 22, 1989.

HIS FRIENDS THOUGHT COLUMBA MADE JEB Ibid.

JEB ANNOUNCED THAT BB, 103; BPB diary, December 26, 1973.

ON THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS, 1973 BPB diary, December 26, 1973.

CRASHED INTO SOME TRASH CANS GWB, 41, 82.

"YOUR BEHAVIOR IS DISGRACEFUL" Ibid.

"I UNDERSTAND" Ibid.

HAD "DEFIANTLY CHARGED UPSTAIRS" Ibid.

"YOU WANT TO GO MANO A MANO" www.vanityfair.com/news/2000/10/bush200010.

THE FATHER LOWERED THE BOOK GWB, 41, 82.

THE SILENT STARE Ibid. "I felt like a fool," George W. recalled. "I slunk out of the room, chastened by the knowledge that I had disappointed my father so deeply that he would not speak to me." (Ibid.) "HE NORMALLY IS A GOOD GUY" BPB diary, December 26, 1973.

"HE SAYS THAT HE DRANK SO MUCH" Ibid.

(RECALLING THE "MANO A MANO" MOMENT) Author interview with GHWB.

"HE DIDN'T REALLY WANT TO" Ibid.

("I WAS PROBABLY JUST LOOKING") Author interview with GWB.

"HOW I WORRY" BB, 104.

APPEARED TO BE "A GREAT INFLUENCE" Ibid., 103.

"WE WERE NOTIFIED" Ibid., 1034.

BARBARA GAVE JEB HER GRANDMOTHER PIERCE'S WEDDING RING Ibid., 104.

THE COUPLE WERE MARRIED IN AUSTIN Ibid.

BUSH LONG INSISTED THAT ATB, 177.

HE WAS, HOWEVER, "SICKENED" Ibid., 17778.

THE APRIL 1974 RELEASE Ibid., 177.

"THE WHOLE AMORAL TONE" Ibid., 17778.

JULIE NIXON EISENHOWER Author interview with GHWB. See also BB, 104.

"IT OCCURRED TO ME" ATB, 180, 185.

THE SUPREME COURT RULED Nixon, RN, 1051; ATB, 186.

BUSH WENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE ATB, 18688. Haig told Bush that there would be "more bad news including a major shock from one of the tapes." He thought, too, that Nixon would make one last stand. "If [that decision] was made," Haig said, "the President would have to take the offense, go up and testify himself, work with the Party, work with the Senators, have a very strong offense." (Ibid., 187.) The implied question was whether Bush and the Republican Party would follow Nixon into such a battle. If Nixon chose to fight, he needed all the help he could muster. He needed George Bush and the RNC. Would Bush and the party be there for the president during a Senate trial? The answer, phrased politely, was probably not. (Ibid., 18689.) "HE OUGHT TO DO IT NOW" Ibid., 187.

"IF HE RESIGNED" Ibid.

DEAN BURCH CALLED BUSH Ibid., 188.

AN OLD GOLDWATER ADVISER NYT, August 5, 1991.

RHODES HAD CALLED BUSH Time, August 12, 1974.

"YOU GOT ANY" Ibid.

NOW THE NEWS WAS THE IMPENDING RELEASE ATB, 186.

HAD SPOKEN FOR AN HOUR www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresearchers/find/tapes/watergate/trial/exhibit_01.pdf; Transcripts of a recording of a meeting between the President and H. R. Haldeman in the Oval Office on June 23, 1972, from 10:04 to 11:39 A.M., Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library.

"THIS WAS PROOF THE PRESIDENT" ATB, 186.

BUSH SPOKE OF STEPPING DOWN Ibid., 188.

BURCH AND BUZHARDT ARGUED Ibid.

"I DO NOT FEEL THE PRESIDENT" Ibid., 189.

"I [AM] TORN" Ibid.

THE PRESIDENT "FEELS I'M SOFT" Ibid., 18182.

THE "SYSTEM" Ibid., 185.

"CIVILITY WILL RETURN TO WASHINGTON" Ibid., 185.

NIXON WAS RUNNING LATE Gerald R. Ford, A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford (New York, 1979), 18.

THE SESSION WAS PUSHED BACK Ibid.; ATB, 190.

"THE ATMOSPHERE" ATB, 190.

WHEN NIXON FINALLY ENTERED Nixon, RN, 1065.

"IT WAS OBVIOUS" Ford, Time to Heal, 18.

WAS "SALLOW" Ibid.

THE PRESIDENT CHECKED THE CLOCK Ibid.

TURNING TO HIS NOTES Ibid.

"I WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS" Ibid.

BUSH WAS MYSTIFIED Author interview with GHWB.

"MY GOD!" Ford, Time to Heal, 1819.

NIXON TURNED TO WATERGATE Ibid., 1920.

HE KNEW, HE SAID Ibid.

SO THERE IT WAS Ibid., 20; ATB, 190.

"I VETOED $35 BILLION" Ford, Time to Heal, 20.

AN UNCOMFORTABLE NIXON ATB, 190; GHWB, August 6, 1974, Personal Notes-Oct. 73Aug. 74 (2), Republican National Committee, Personal Papers, GHWB Collection, GBPL.

AND MOUTHED "GEORGE" ATB, 190.

"MY HEART WENT TOTALLY" Ibid.

BREAKING THE SILENCE Ford, Time to Heal, 2021.

"WELL, JERRY" Ibid., 20.

"NO ONE REGRETS" Ibid., 21.

NIXON, FORD THOUGHT, "SEEMED" Ibid.

THE PRESIDENT TRIED Ibid.

NEW FARM APPROPRIATIONS BILL Nixon, RN, 1066.

"BILL, I HAVE THE ABILITY" Ford, Time to Heal, 21.

BUSH TRIED TO GET NIXON'S ATTENTION Nixon, RN, 1066.

SAXBE "WAS RIGHT" GHWB, August 6, 1974, Personal Notes-Oct. 73Aug. 74 (2), Republican National Committee, Personal Papers, GHWB Collection, GBPL.

BEST TO DO SO "EXPEDITIOUSLY" Ibid. In his memoirs, Ford recalled Bush speaking up before Saxbe. (Ford, Time to Heal, 21.) My account-which has Bush reacting specifically to Saxbe's comments-is drawn from Bush's contemporaneous notes. (GHWB, August 6, 1974, Personal Notes-Oct. 73Aug. 74 (2), Republican National Committee, Personal Papers, GHWB Collections, GBPL.) LISTENING TO BUSH Author interview with Henry Kissinger.

"WE ARE HERE" Nixon, RN, 1066.

"THE WHOLE GODDAMNED THING" GHWB, August 6, 1974, Personal Notes-Oct. 73Aug. 74 (2), Republican National Committee, Personal Papers, GHWB Collection, GBPL.

BUSH HAD TO FLY GHWB, August 7 and 8, 1974, Personal Notes-Oct. 73Aug. 74 (2), Republican National Committee, Personal Papers, GHWB Collection, GBPL.

IN HIS ROOM AT THE BEVERLY WILSHIRE GHWB personal memo, Los Angeles, Calif., August 7, 1974, Personal Notes-Oct. 73Aug. 74 (3), Republican National Committee, Personal Papers, GHWB Collection, GBPL.

"DEAR MR. PRESIDENT" ATB, 193.

IT IS MY CONSIDERED JUDGMENT Ibid.

HE MET WITH FORD Ford, Time to Heal, 2829.