"BUSHER, WHO RIDE THE BICYCLE" LF, 139.
(BUSH'S BIKE BORE Engel, ed., China Diary of George H. W. Bush, photograph.
A MR. LO AT THE NEARBY COMMISSARY ATB, 217.
"THEY ARE NOT THEMSELVES" Ibid.
HE WROTE BILL STEIGER ATB, 207.
KISSINGER ARRIVED IN LSY, 173; LF, 134.
THE BUSHES JOINED THE KISSINGERS LF, 13435.
WHEN BARBARA WAS PREPARING TO MAIL A LETTER Ibid., 135.
"KISSINGER IS BRILLIANT" ATB, 209.
HE BELIEVED THE FIFTY-YEAR-OLD DIPLOMAT Author interview with Henry Kissinger.
"HIS STAFF ARE SCARED TO DEATH" ATB, 20910.
"HE ASKED HOW LONG" Ibid., 210.
"I TOLD HIM I HAD NO POLITICAL PLANS" Ibid.
KISSINGER WAS WISE Engel, ed., China Diary of George H. W. Bush, 12.
BARBARA WENT HOME TO WASHINGTON BB, 117.
"GREAT TALKS WITH BAR" ATB, 211.
"NO DRUGS, NO DOPE, NO CRIME" Ibid., 221.
"IT IS RIGHT THAT BAR" Ibid., 211.
"MOTHER ARRIVES TOMORROW" Ibid., 212.
AFTER MRS. BUSH...LANDED IN BEIJING Ibid.
ON THE TWENTY-FIFTH, THEY HAD Ibid., 213; LF, 13940.
TOUR OF "THE CAVES" LF, 14041.
"DIG TUNNELS DEEP" Ibid., 140.
BUSH CLIMBED BACK OUT Ibid., 14041.
"HER COMMENT WAS" Ibid., 141.
"BY THAT TIME...I'D BEEN IN CHINA" Ibid.
BUSH HEARD ABOUT THE FALL OF SAIGON Engel, ed. China Diary of George H. W. Bush, 27273.
"RUSHED HAPPILY OUT OF THE ROOM" Ibid., 273.
"IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THE U.S." Ibid.
BUSH WOULD WATCH Ibid., 25356.
A "NEW ALIGNMENT" Ibid., 253.
ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1975 Ibid., 34547; ATB, 228.
HELD A BAPTISM FOR DORO LF, 144.
KISSINGER RETURNED TO CHINA Ibid., 145.
IN A SERIES OF SESSIONS Ibid.
DENG EVEN INVOKED THE ANALOGY Ibid., 146.
MAO HIMSELF WAS READY TO SEE THEM Ibid., 14649.
"YOU WILL MEET" Ibid., 146.
IN THE CHAIRMAN'S VILLA Ibid., 14647.
"THIS PART WORKS WELL" Ibid., 147.
BUSH SAT NEXT TO KISSINGER Ibid., 14748.
"I AM GOING TO HEAVEN SOON" Ibid., 147.
"I ATTACH GREAT SIGNIFICANCE" Ibid., 14748.
THEY SPOKE OF TAIWAN Ibid., 148.
"SEE TIME AND THEIR OWN" Ibid., 148.
BUSH SAW MAO JUST ONCE MORE LF, 156. See also "Memorandum of Conversation," December 2, 1975, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
STARTED DRAFTING A LONG MEMORANDUM Rumsfeld memo to Ford, July 10, 1975, Cheney Papers, Ford Library. See also Ford, Time to Heal, 32330; Cheney with Cheney, In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir (New York, 2011), 8990; Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, 19295; Graham, By His Own Rules, 12224.
THE PRESIDENT CAUGHT A COLD Cheney with Cheney, In My Time, 90.
THE FATE OF VICE PRESIDENT ROCKEFELLER Ibid.
IN A MID-SEPTEMBER 1975 HARRIS POLL Ford, Time to Heal, 327.
"IN HIS PAST" Ibid., 253.
FORD AND ROCKEFELLER DISCUSSED THE CONSERVATIVE REBELLION Ibid., 328.
"MR. PRESIDENT, I'LL DO ANYTHING" Ibid.
WAS ONLY ONE OF THE DECISIONS Cheney with Cheney, In My Time, 9092. Bush's account of the shifts is found in LF, 15758.
A TELEGRAM FROM KISSINGER ARRIVED LF, 15354.
THE BUSHES WERE OUT BICYCLING BB, 130.
"THE PRESIDENT IS PLANNING" LF, 153.
BUSH WAS FLABBERGASTED LF, 15354. See also ATB, 23334. There had been some chatter about a return to Washington in some role. In a March 20, 1975, note to Jack Marsh, Russ Rourke wrote: "It's my impression and partial understanding that George Bush has probably had enough of egg rolls and Peking by now (and has probably gotten over his lost V.P. opportunity). He's one hell of a Presidential surrogate, and would be an outstanding spokesman for the White House between now and November '76. Don't you think he would make an outstanding candidate for Secretary of Commerce or a similar post sometime during the next six months?" (Russ Rourke to Jack Marsh, March 20, 1975, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.) BUSH HANDED THE TELEGRAM LF, 15354.
"I REMEMBER CAMP DAVID" Ibid., 154.
"RETURN TO WASHINGTON" Ibid.
"THE PRESIDENT ASKS" Ibid.
HE WOULD DO HIS DUTY Author interview with GHWB.
"IN THE BEST OF TIMES" LF, 155.
"YOU HAVE GIVEN HIM A POST" Memorandum of Conversation, December 4, 1975, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
WITH ROCKEFELLER OFF THE TICKET LF, 158.
ROGERS MORTON...BELIEVED Ibid.
"I THINK YOU OUGHT TO KNOW" Ibid. Bush suspected his friends were right. "I have a gut feeling there were some behind the scenes politics-but now all that doesn't matter," Bush wrote Bill Steiger on November 9, 1975. (ATB, 240.) IN FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS WITH BUSH Author interview with GHWB. See also LF, 158, for Bush's account of his meeting with Rumsfeld.
"I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING" Author interview with GHWB. For the contrary case, which quotes Nelson Rockefeller, see Werth, 31 Days, 34041. In a letter solicited by Rumsfeld in 1989, Ford reiterated that he, not Rumsfeld, had made the decision about Bush. (Gerald R. Ford to Donald H. Rumsfeld, April 3, 1989, Archives of Donald Rumsfeld.) Rumsfeld had solicited the account after news reports had repeated the story that he had shunted Bush off to CIA for political purposes. (Donald H. Rumsfeld to Gerald R. Ford, March 28, 1989, Archives of Donald Rumsfeld.) See also Wicker, GHWB, 4345.
"MAN," MORTON SAID Author interview with GHWB.
LOANED THE RUMSFELDS A CAR Author interviews with GHWB and Donald Rumsfeld. The Rumsfelds' car was still in Brussels, where Rumsfeld had been serving as NATO ambassador. (Author interview with Donald Rumsfeld.) THE FORD RESTRUCTURING INITIALLY CALLED FOR ELLIOT RICHARDSON Author interviews with Dick Cheney. See also Naftali, GHWB, 3031; LSY, 19091; Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, 199201; and Graham, By His Own Rules, 12224.
FORD PERSONALLY SWITCHED Author interviews with Dick Cheney. President Ford's insistence that Rumsfeld had "nothing to do" with the decision about Bush supports Cheney's version of events-that Ford sent Bush to the CIA instead of Richardson in order to make the moment more congenial for Kissinger. In an interview, Kissinger agreed with the characterization of Richardson as someone with whom he had difficulty working. This had not always been the case, but Richardson had made no secret of his own ambition to be secretary of state. Kissinger said he had not, however, expressed any views to Ford on the RichardsonBushCIA matter. (Author interview with Henry Kissinger.) Cheney, the incoming White House chief of staff, agreed, recalling that Kissinger's unhappiness with Richardson and willingness to work with Bush was simply part of the prevailing workaday atmosphere of the time. (Author interview with Dick Cheney.) See also Naftali, GHWB, 31, and LSY, 19091.
FORD'S IMPRESSION OF THE SENSITIVITIES Author interview with Dick Cheney.
"YOUR MESSAGE CAME AS A TOTAL" ATB, 233.
"YOU ARE A GREAT PATRIOT" Henry A. Kissinger to GHWB, November 2, 1975, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
SEVENTEEN: George Bush, Super Spook IT'S A TOUGH, MEAN BB, 132.
OUR LIFE HAS CHANGED BPB diary, February 23, 1976.
IN RETROSPECT, THE CIA JOB LSY, 184206; John Ranelagh, The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA (New York, 1986), 62833; Naftali, GHWB, 3132; Wicker, GHWB, 4447.
ELECTORAL OBLIVION Author interview with GHWB. See also ATB, 238.
"THE PRESIDENT HAS ASKED US" ATB, 23536. See also Wicker, GHWB, 44.
"I LOOK FORWARD" ATB, 236.
ON CAPITOL HILL LSY, 190.
IN HIS MIND HE WAS SACRIFICING LF, 159. Bush hated the emerging line of argument, and he hated that Church, the most celebrated senator on the intelligence issue, was pushing it so hard. "Perhaps you could ask him to withhold his fire until we have the hearings," Bush wrote Jack Marsh, the White House counselor who was overseeing the CIA confirmation, on Friday, November 7, 1975. "I will leave that to you. Maybe it's better to let him pop off." (ATB, 239.) The preemptive criticism bothered him. "In talking to the Senators you can emphasize for me my total commitment to laying politics totally aside," Bush told Marsh. "I have done it at the UN, I have done it in China, and I recognize that it is essential to do that in the new job." (Ibid.)
From China, Bush offered Marsh some more ideas for fighting back. "There are several incidents of my having to resist White House pressure during Watergate times....The theme should be emphasized that Bush did withstand WH pressure, but did not do it glamorously on the front pages," Bush wrote Marsh. "I will approach my CIA job in the same way." (Ibid., 241.) He was also thinking of lines of argument to turn his opponents' charges around. "Further point should be made that someone with some feel for public opinion might better keep Agency out of illegal activities," he wrote. (Ibid.)
THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS LF, 16263.
BUSH'S CONFIRMATION HEARINGS LSY, 19192. For Bush's notes as he prepared an opening statement, see ATB, 24345.
"NOW, LET US ASSUME" LSY, 192.
"I DO NOT THINK THAT IS DIFFICULT" Ibid.
RETURNED TO BUSH'S POLITICAL FUTURE LF, 163. See also LSY, 18992. For reporting on the Democrats' push to remove Bush from consideration for the vice presidential nomination in 1976 in exchange for his confirmation for CIA, see NYT, December 16, 17, 18, and 19, 1975; WP, December 16, 17, and 19, 1975.
"THEY WANT A BLOOD OATH" LF, 163; Ford, Time to Heal, 33738.
BUSH AGREED TO A COMPROMISE LSY, 193; Ford, Time to Heal, 338.
THE PRESIDENT, NOT BUSH, WOULD MAKE Time to Heal, 33738; LF, 163.
"I KNOW IT'S UNFAIR" Ford, Time to Heal, 338.
A LETTER PROMISING THAT BUSH WOULD NOT Ford, Time to Heal, 33738; LF, 164; author interview with Dick Cheney.
SUPPORTED THE NOMINATION 12 TO 4 LSY, 192. See also WP, December 19, 1975.
WON CONFIRMATION 64 TO 27 LSY, 193. See also NYT, January 28, 1976.
AMONG THE FIRST TO CONGRATULATE BB, 133.