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ONE RIGHT-WINGER MAILED Ibid.

BOND REMEMBERED THE THRILL Ibid.

BUSH PRESS SECRETARY PETE TEELEY Author interview with Pete Teeley.

"YEAH, IT WAS TWO HOURS" Ibid.

BUSH SPENT TWENTY-SEVEN DAYS Time, January 21, 1980.

ONE MEMBER OF THE BUSH FAMILY Ibid., February 4, 1980.

ON THE OTHER HAND, REAGAN Ibid.

IOWA POLLS HAD REAGAN Ibid., January 21, 1980.

BUSH MOVED FROM COMMERCIAL AIR TRAVEL NYT, January 6, 1980.

"THERE ARE BIGGER SHOTS" Ibid.

"AFTER DOING WELL IN IOWA" Time, December 3, 1979.

DAVID KEENE ESTIMATED Ibid.

TO JOKE THAT HIS STANCE ON ABORTION Ibid.

IOWA REPUBLICANS TURNED OUT Ibid., February 4, 1980.

"I WAS SITTING" Ibid.

BUSH DROPPED IN ON ONE CAUCUS Ibid.

REAGAN LEARNED THE NEWS Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 103; Nancy Reagan, with William Novak, My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan (New York, 1989), 204.

INTO A "MADHOUSE" BPB diary, January 22, 1980.

"HOW SWEET" Ibid.

HE NOW HAD THE "BIG MO" LSY, 226; Wicker, GHWB, 5354.

WHICH REMINDED SOME OBSERVERS Stacks, Watershed, 107.

"IT WAS A CRUSH" BPB diary, January 22, 1980.

"WE HAVE DONE THE UNTHINKABLE" Time, February 4, 1980.

"THERE'S A LONG WAY TO GO" ATB, 287.

"REAGAN IS STILL TOUGH" Ibid., 284.

WENT TO BED ABOUT ONE THIRTY NYT, January 23, 1980.

"ON TO NEW HAMPSHIRE" BPB diary, January 22, 1980.

TWENTY: It Hurt Like Hell REPORTER: "WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST WORRY?" Elizabeth Drew, Portrait of an Election: The 1980 Presidential Campaign (New York, 1981), 95.

RISING AT FIVE TWENTY GHWB diary, January 28, 1980.

BUSH WAS GREETED BY A CROWD OF FIFTY NYT, January 23, 1980; WP, January 23, 1980.

"BETTER THAN YOU THINK" NYT, January 23, 1980.

HUGH GREGG, BUSH'S CAMPAIGN MANAGER Time, February 25, 1980. See also NYT, February 5, 1980.

CALLED HIM "AYATOLLAH" NYT, February 5, 1980.

AN ANDOVER AND YALE MAN Ibid., September 28, 2003.

HE ASSIGNED THE CANDIDATE TWENTY-TWO MINUTES Time, February 25, 1980.

A "HEADY" MOMENT LF, 197.

NEWSWEEK PUT HIM ON THE COVER Ibid.

IN TIME, THREE ANONYMOUS SOURCES Time, February 4, 1980.

"BUSH WAS LOYAL" Ibid.

BUSH "GAVE A GREAT DEAL" Ibid.

A FORMER DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS Ibid.

AN ABC NEWSHARRIS POLL Ibid. See also Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 121.

A POST-IOWA BOSTON GLOBE POLL Time, February 11, 1980; Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 120. One consequence of the Bush moment: Bob Dole was staying in the race in the event that a total Reagan collapse would give Dole a shot as an effective challenger to the new front-runner: Bush. "I think he's felt all along that Reagan wasn't going to make it," Kim Wells, a Dole aide, told reporters. "He sees Iowa as perhaps the beginning of it." (NYT, January 28, 1980.) WITH EVERYTHING NOW IN DOUBT Lou Cannon, Reagan (New York, 1982), 24849. See also Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 12227.

"BENEATH THE MEDIA GLOW" LF, 198.

A SERIES OF POLLS SUGGESTED NYT, February 5, 1980.

49 PERCENT OF WHOM Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 120.

THE QUESTION OF REAGAN'S AGE Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 120.

"RONNIE CAMPAIGNED HARDER" Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 204.

HE SPENT TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1980 NYT, February 6, 1980.

"COMPARED TO THE ALTERNATIVE" Ibid.

"IT'S OLD-SCHOOL TIE" NYT, February 7, 1980.

"MR. BUSH," LOEB SAID Ibid.

ASKED BY REPORTERS WHETHER HE WAS "TO THE LEFT" Ibid., February 8, 1980.

NO FEWER THAN NINETEEN CURRENT OR FORMER Ibid.

HAD LED TO A "SOFTENING OF DEFENSE" Ibid.

THE FIRST DEBATE Time, March 3, 1980; Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 141.

"YOU DON'T WIN" NYT, February 22, 1980.

"I KEPT HEARING" Ibid.

HE WENT INTO THE MANCHESTER EVENT Cannon, Reagan, 25051.

REAGAN HAD A NEARLY TWO TO ONE Newsweek, March 10, 1980.

REAGAN HAD INITIALLY AGREED NYT, February 22, 1980.

THE PLAN IN THE FORTY-EIGHT HOURS For detailed accounts of Nashua, see Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 14255; Cannon, Reagan, 25153; Stacks, Watershed, 11921; Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover, Blue Smoke and Mirrors: How Reagan Won and Why Carter Lost the Election of 1980 (New York, 1981), 12531; Jeff Greenfield, The Real Campaign: How the Media Missed the Story of the 1980 Campaign (New York, 1982), 4548; Wicker, GHWB, 5357.

THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION AGREED Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 142; NYT, February 22, 1980.

IN THE HECTIC HOURS Ibid.

THE BUSH CAMPAIGN WAS UNCERTAIN I am indebted to Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, and to my interviews with Shirley for this account of the run-up to Nashua.

REAGAN HAD AGREED Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 142; 14849.

BUSH REPLIED Ibid., 148.

BACKSTAGE AT NASHUA HIGH SCHOOL Ibid., 150.

THE REAGAN CAMP DECIDED TO SEND Ibid., 15051; author interview with Craig Shirley.

FOR THE SAKE OF "PARTY UNITY" Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 150; author interview with Craig Shirley.

TOOK HIS SEAT ON THE STAGE Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 15152.

"MR. BUSH IS ALREADY ON THE STAGE" Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 209.

"WHY DON'T YOU ALL" Ibid.

HE BRIEFLY SHOOK BUSH'S HAND Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 152. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRI6iSrS1kc.

BUSH SAT STONILY Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 152; Newsweek, March 10, 1980; Naftali, GHWB, 37.

ASKED IF HE COULD MAKE A STATEMENT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRI6iSrS1kc. See also Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 152.

REAGAN'S FACE WAS FLUSHED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRI6iSrS1kc.

A "LITTLE BOY WHO THINKS" Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 154.

REAGAN INSISTED Ibid., 152.

"I AM PAYING" Ibid.

"HE FROZE" Newsweek, March 10, 1980.

"ARE YOU THROUGH?" Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 153.

"I'LL GET YOU SOMEDAY" Ibid., 154.

"JIM BAKER," DOLE SAID Baker with Fiffer, Work Hard, 91.

"OF COURSE, I LOOKED TERRIBLE" Author interview with GHWB.

GORDON HUMPHREY Author interview with Craig Shirley; Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 15051; LSY, 229.

THINGS WERE RUNNING LATE ATB, 289.

"ON THE WAY TO THE STAGE" Ibid.

"A LOT OF MISUNDERSTANDING" Ibid.

"THE PRODUCER WAS SIGNALING ME" Ibid., 28990.

"I WISH WE HAD BEEN IN PERSONAL TOUCH" Ibid., 290.

REAGAN CONSIDERED THE EVENING NYT, March 6, 1988.

"I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT" Ibid.

"I LOOKED LIKE A FOOL" Author interview with GHWB.

CARRIED THE PRIMARY 50 PERCENT Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 161.

"CONGRATULATIONS, SIR" Time, March 10, 1980.

"IF SOMEBODY ASKS" Newsweek, March 10, 1980.

BUSH "IS HOPING" Ibid.

"WE'VE GOT TO WIN THIS PRIMARY" NYT, March 2, 1980.

"NOW, NANCY, YOU ALL HAVE TO WIN" Author interview with Nancy Bush Ellis.