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IT WOULD NOT BE EASY Author interview with Andrew Card.

WELCOME GEORGE BUSCH Ibid.

"LOOKS LIKE I NEED" Ibid.

BUSH MADE HIS CHARACTER See, for instance, Naftali, GHWB, 3536. Wicker, GHWB, 5052 discusses the Bush resume.

"A PRESIDENT WE WON'T HAVE TO TRAIN" Bernard Weintraub, "Bush Gets Lessons in Performing on TV," NYT, January 13, 1980; Ray Coffey, "Selling of the Candidates, 1980," Chicago Tribune, March 16, 1980.

ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL Author interview with GHWB.

HE SEEMED MODERATE Author interviews with Pete Teeley and Rich Bond. See also Naftali, GHWB, 3536.

IF BUSH SUCCEEDED LF, 19193, offers his pre-1980 thinking, particularly on challenging Carter. On a practical level, Bush did not have a traditional political base, and he knew it. "What I had was a wealth of friends some of whom knew something about state politics and some of whom knew nothing about that but knew something about giving money to people they believed in," Bush recalled. "So we started by raising money unlike other candidates could do, and I felt that I could mobilize those people, get them interested, and sure enough we did." (Author interview with GHWB.) GEORGE W., NOW THIRTY-ONE BPB diary, September 1, 1977. See also GWB, Decision Points, 3741.

"THE PRIMARY WILL BE" BPB diary, September 1, 1977.

"YOU KNOW, I WONDER IF" Ibid.

"IT REMINDS ME" Ibid.

BUSH NEVER WEIGHED IN DIRECTLY Author interview with GWB.

HE DID, HOWEVER, ASK GEORGE W. GWB, Decision Points, 3839.

"SON, YOU CAN'T WIN" Ibid.

"THERE WAS NO ENCOURAGEMENT" Ibid.

IN THE FALL OF 1977 BPB diary, October 8, 1977.

LAURA WAS INTRODUCED TO THE BUSHES Ibid., November 18, 1977.

ONE OF THE EARLIEST SKIRMISHES GWB, Decision Points, 3940; Craig Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America (Wilmington, Del., 2009), 7. The maneuver came more from the Reaganites than from Reagan himself. Lyn Nofziger, a Reagan adviser, directed Citizens for the Republic, and it was widely believed that he had stepped into the Texas race to tweak the elder Bush. "That was pure Nofziger," recalled Craig Shirley, a conservative historian who was working for Gordon Humphrey's 1978 Senate campaign in New Hampshire. (Author interview with Craig Shirley.) The Reaganites argued that they had to support Jim Reese since they had backed him two years before, in the 1976 campaign. (Lyn Nofziger to GHWB, July 7, 1978, box 21/3, James A. Baker III Papers, Princeton.) THE BUSHES BLAMED BPB diary, May 13, 1978.

A "WASHINGTON WHISPERS" ITEM Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 7.

"A LARGE PART OF HIS CAMPAIGN" BPB diary, November 12, 1978.

"I TOLD HIM" GHWB to JAB III, May 29, 1975, box 16/3, James A. Baker III Papers, Princeton.

BAKER TOOK THE COMMERCE POST Author interview with James A. Baker III.

"HE WAS RIGHT" Ibid.

"LET'S GET CRACKING" Baker with DeFrank, Politics of Diplomacy, 18.

TO PAY A COURTESY CALL Author interviews with GHWB and James A. Baker III.

REAGAN HIMSELF HAD TO ADDRESS TWO BROAD QUESTIONS See Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 6, for a summary of the challenges facing Reagan in 1980. The story of the 1980 campaign is best told by Shirley in Rendezvous with Destiny; I am indebted to him for his exhaustively researched work and for his counsel on particular points.

"BUSH SHOULD AVOID" Memorandum, undated, box 20/5, James A. Baker III Papers, Princeton. See also ATB, 278, for Bush on the "tough enough" theme.

"THE THINKING MAN'S CANDIDATE" Time, February 5, 1979.

"CALL ME A CONSERVATIVE" Ibid.

REAGAN WAS "A GREAT OLD DOG" Time, May 14, 1979.

"GEORGE BUSH'S HOPE" NYT, May 2, 1979. For more on the age issue, see Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 11819.

BUSH JOGGED CONSTANTLY Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 129.

"UP FOR THE '80s" Ibid.

A BUSH BROCHURE NYT, November 23, 1979.

"THE RIGHT AGE" Roanoke Times & World-News, June 30, 1979.

"I DON'T QUESTION" Time, November 26, 1979.

"KEY TO WINNING IS" Memorandum, undated, box 12/5, James A. Baker III Papers, Princeton.

"BUSH HAS TO BE 'ACCEPTABLE'" Document, undated, box 20/5, James A. Baker III Papers, Princeton.

"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN" "George Bush Announcement Speech," May 1, 1979, text in BPB diary, 1979; Time, May 14, 1979.

"I AM NOT PROMISING" "George Bush Announcement Speech," May 1, 1979.

"THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MUST BE TOLD" Ibid.

MORE THAN A QUARTER Ibid.

"THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME IN MEMORY" NYT, May 2, 1979.

"OUR BIGGEST OPPONENT IS US" Time, November 12, 1979.

HIS FOCUS ON THE STATE PAID OFF NYT, May 24, 1979.

"I'VE GOT A LONG WAY" Ibid.

THE BAD NEWS CAME Ibid.

FOR BUSH, FORD HAD BEEN A FACTOR Author interviews with GHWB and James A. Baker III. See also NYT, January 24, 1980.

BAKER SOUGHT FORD'S BLESSING NYT, January 24, 1980.

"IT'S GOING TO BE TOUGH" Ibid.

"TOP REPUBLICANS EXPECT GERALD FORD" Time, November 28, 1977.

POLLS HAD HIM DEFEATING CARTER NYT, October 1, 1979.

YOU "NEVER SAY 'NEVER'" Ibid.

WHO HAD A LEAD OVER CARTER Ibid.

"CAVALCADE OF STARS" Douglas E. Kneeland, "9 GOP Hopefuls Vie for Attention at an Iowa Dinner," NYT, October 15, 1979.

A "SURPRISINGLY LOW FOURTH" Ibid., October 16, 1979.

A MAINE STRAW POLL Ibid., November 4, 1979.

HE HAD HAD ENOUGH Ibid. Bush described the occasion in Portland and his passionate remarks in LF, 19396.

HEADED SOUTH, TO THE FLORIDA Time, December 3, 1979.

THERE WERE HOT-AIR BALLOON Ibid.

BUSH'S 21 PERCENT NYT, November 18, 1979.

"THE SURPRISE OF THE WEEKEND" Time, December 3, 1979.

"COUNT 'EM AGAIN" Ibid.

347 DAYS OF CAMPAIGNING NYT, November 23, 1979. Thirty-seven days were spent in New Hampshire, 34 in Florida, and 24 in Iowa. "He has plainly worked harder than his rivals have," the Times said. (Ibid.) "HOT PROPERTY" NYT, November 23, 1979.

"I THINK BUSH HAS A CHANCE" Time, December 3, 1979.

"IOWA HAD BEEN" LF, 187.

"WE BET THE WHOLE THING" Author interview with GHWB.

NINETEEN: We Have Done the Unthinkable THE ACTION BEGINS IN IOWA Time, January 21, 1980.

"I'M SURPRISED MY BODY" ATB, 283.

"HE WAS JUST DROPPING" Ibid.

"I DON'T WANT TO LOOK BACK" Ibid.

THE NEWS IN LATE 1979 James T. Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore, 10910.

"I'M JUST SO OUTRAGED" John F. Stacks, Watershed: The Campaign for the Presidency, 1980 (New York, 1981), 97.

"I SEE THE WORLD" Time, December 3, 1979.

"I'VE BEEN THERE" NYT, November 23, 1979.

MARVIN MOVED TO IOWA BB, 147; author interview with Marvin Bush.

NEIL TO NEW HAMPSHIRE Author interview with Neil Bush.

DORO TOOK A LEAVE BB, 147.

DOROTHY BUSH AND HER DAUGHTER St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 30, 1991.

IN IOWA, BARBARA WAS PLEASED BPB diary, January 21, 1980.

IN A BLAZER, NEIL WORKED CROWDS Time, December 3, 1979.

IN 1978, WHEN HE AND COLUMBA Author interview with Jeb Bush.

"IT WAS A BLAST" Ibid.

(AFTER IOWA, HE WOULD RUN) Ibid.

"I REALLY WASN'T" Ibid. For GHWB's warm view of Jeb in the 1980 campaign, see ATB, 284.

"I LOOK AT BAR'S SCHEDULE" ATB, 284.

ONE NIGHT HE ENCOUNTERED BARBARA Author interview with GHWB.

NEIL WAS ENGAGED ATB, 284.

"YET, WE HAVEN'T" Ibid.

"IS IN CLOSE, IN TIGHT" Ibid.

"TAKING THE TOUGH ROAD" Ibid., 279.

ON A COMMERCIAL FLIGHT FROM PUERTO RICO Ibid., 285.

WITH ITS 2,531 PRECINCTS Time, December 3, 1979.

MOVED TO THE STATE TO WORK FOR BUSH Author interview with Rich Bond.

THE CORE BUSH GROUP INCLUDED Ibid. See also Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 87.

EVERY DAY BOND Author interview with Rich Bond.

FROM EIGHT IN THE MORNING UNTIL TEN AT NIGHT Ibid.

"I'M RICH BOND" Ibid.

ON THE WAY HOME Ibid.

"THE VAST MAJORITY" Ibid.