IF BUSH WERE TO LOSE NYT, March 2, 1980.
FORD STOOD READY Ibid.
"A VERY CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN" Ibid.
"THAT'S RIGHT" Ibid.
"I WOULDN'T BE DESERVING" Ibid., March 7, 1980.
THE REST OF MARCH WAS A MISERY LSY, 23032. For Reagan's wins in South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, and Illinois, see NYT, March 9, 12, 19, 1980. For Bush's victory in Connecticut, see WP, March 26, 1980. For a comprehensive guide to the primaries and caucuses, see https://presidentialcampaignselectionsreference.wordpress.com/overviews/20th-century/1980-overview/.
"I AM NOT A CANDIDATE" NYT, March 16, 1980.
"IT UNCOMPLICATES OUR LIFE" Ibid.
"IT'S OVER" Ibid., March 17, 1980.
"I AM DISCOURAGED" BPB diary, March 1011, 1980.
"IT IS BAD" Ibid., March 11, 1980.
"YOUNG GEORGE CALLED" Ibid., March 15, 1980.
"I FEEL WE ARE VERY NEAR" Ibid., April 12, 1980.
"GEORGE IS ABOUT THE MOST" Baker with Fiffer, Work Hard, 94.
IN PENNSYLVANIA, HE ATTACKED LAT, April 14, 1980. See also LSY, 232.
THE PHRASE "VOODOO ECONOMICS" Author interview with Pete Teeley; Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 259.
IT GOT TEELEY THINKING Author interview with Pete Teeley.
"FAR FROM OVER" NYT, April 21, 1980.
NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGHT Ibid., April 23, 1980.
BUSH RAN A PRICEY CAMPAIGN Ibid., April 27, 1980; WP, April 23, 1980.
"LAST JANUARY, HE CULTIVATED" NYT, April 27, 1980.
"I HATE TO TEMPT FATE" Ibid., April 23, 1980.
YET WHEN BUSH TURNED ON THE NEWS Ibid., May 22, 1980.
THE ANSWER, JIM BAKER SADLY CONCLUDED Baker with Fiffer, Work Hard, 94.
"GODDAMN TOUGH" Ibid.
"IF YOU CAN'T DO CALIFORNIA" Ibid.
"BAKER SAYS YOU DON'T" Ibid., 95.
FROM A GRIM HOLIDAY INN Author interview with GHWB.
BUSH WAS "FURIOUS" Baker with Fiffer, Work Hard, 95.
"GEORGE, I THINK IT'S TIME" Author interview with GHWB.
"NO, JIMMY" Ibid.
"WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE MONEY" Ibid.
JIM OBERWETTER, AN OLD TEXAS POLITICAL HAND Author interview with James Oberwetter.
"I PICKED HIM UP" Ibid.
"I WILL NEVER GIVE UP" Ibid.
IN THE SUNROOM BPB diary, summer 1980.
"LOOK, WE'VE GOT TO FOLD" Author interview with GHWB.
BAKER WAS DIRECT Baker with Fiffer, Work Hard, 9596.
EVERY DAY BUSH STAYED Author interview with James A. Baker III. Baker had also made this point to Bush on the call that brought Bush back to Texas. (Baker with Fiffer, Work Hard, 9596.) "WOULD BLOW ANY CHANCE" Baker and Fiffer, Work Hard, 95.
IF BUSH WERE EVEN REMOTELY Ibid., 96.
"I FINALLY SAID, 'OKAY'" Author interview with GHWB.
"IT HURT LIKE HELL" Ibid.
THE "TOUGHEST DECISION" NYT, May 27, 1980.
"HE WAS A SUPERIOR CAMPAIGNER" Ibid.
A DROP-IN TURNED INTO LUNCH BPB diary, summer 1980.
BUSH TOOK OFF HIS SHOES NYT, May 27, 1980.
BUSH...JOKINGLY POINTED Ibid., May 28, 1980.
"I GUESS WE CAN PUT" Ibid.
JIM BAKER THOUGHT Ibid.
"THE DISPUTE OVER THE VICE PRESIDENCY" Ibid.
HE SPENT MUCH OF HIS TIME Author interview with GHWB.
"THERE AGAIN IS MY FATHER" Ibid.
RICHARD WIRTHLIN WAS EXPLICIT Campaign Planning Memos, July 9, 1980, Ed Meese Papers, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
IN JUNE, A SURVEY NYT, June 23, 1980.
AT A $200-A-PLATE NEW YORK Ibid., June 21, 1980.
POLLED EIGHTEEN POSSIBLE TICKETS Ibid., July 1, 1980.
THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAD TOLD REAGAN Germond and Witcover, Blue Smoke and Mirrors, 171.
"WANT ME TO PURSUE IT?" Ibid.
"HELL, NO" Ibid.
BUSH AND SEVEN OTHERS NYT, July 1, 1980.
TWO OTHER NAMES EMERGED Ibid., July 11, 1980.
A GALLUP POLL IN EARLY JULY Ibid., July 8, 1980.
"IF YOU WISH" William A. Rusher memorandum, January 14, 1980, William A. Rusher Papers, Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C.
ERNEST ANGELO, JR., A LONGTIME REAGAN SUPPORTER Author interview with Ernest Angelo, Jr.
"I THOUGHT WE WERE DONE" Author interview with GHWB.
"IT WOULD'VE BEEN TOUGH" Ibid.
"I'D WANTED TO BE PRESIDENT" Ibid.
TWENTY-ONE: Is George Bush There?
"I THOUGHT WE WERE DONE" Author interview with GHWB.
STU SPENCER, A REAGAN ADVISER Author interview with Stu Spencer.
"I STARTED OUT" Ibid.
"'VOODOO ECONOMICS'" Ibid.
ON THE PLANE Author interview with Stu Spencer. See also Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 331.
SPENCER TRIED AGAIN Author interview with Stu Spencer.
"YOU HAVEN'T BEEN" Ibid.
"NO, I FOLLOW" Ibid.
REAGAN DID NOT REPLY Ibid.
MOVEMENT CONSERVATIVES ARRIVING IN DETROIT NYT, July 14, 1980. See also Lewis L. Gould, Grand Old Party: A History of the Republicans (New York, 2003), 41617, and John Herbers, "Ultraconservative Evangelicals a Surging Force in Politics," NYT, August 17, 1980.
"I FEEL THIS WHOLE ELECTION" NYT, July 14, 1980.
"THE MESSAGE WE WANT" Ibid., July 13, 1980.
THE NUMBERS ARGUED FOR BUSH "Vice Presidential Selection," June 25, 1980, VP Selection, Ed Meese Papers, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
THE SURVEYS FOUND, TOO Ibid.
BUSH HIMSELF WAS RUNNING Ibid.
A MEETING IN JESSE HELMS'S SUITE Author interview with Ernest Angelo, Jr.
PHIL CRANE WAS ALSO TRYING Ibid.
"IF SENATOR HELMS" Ibid.
"THEY NEARLY THREW ME OUT" Ibid.
MODERATES WERE UPSET NYT, July 13, 1980.
THE BUSHES ARRIVED IN DETROIT "George Bush Detroit Schedule," in BPB diary, summer 1980.
IT WAS GOING TO BE A LONG WEEK Ibid. Bush and Jim Baker ran into Henry Kissinger. The two explained their strategy for positioning Bush for the vice presidency: They were going to meet with all the Bush delegates and say all the right things about Reagan. The former would be visible evidence of Bush's vote-getting ability; the latter the price of admission to the national ticket. "They were hoping that I would be sympathetic, which I was, and that I might be supportive if the occasion arose," Kissinger recalled. (Author interview with Henry Kissinger.) AS BUSH LOOKED OVER "George Bush Detroit Schedule," in BPB diar y, summer 1980.
PRESIDENT FORD HAD "TOLD ASSOCIATES" NYT, July 14, 1980.
HOUR AFTER HOUR "George Bush Detroit Schedule," in BPB diary, summer 1980.
JIM BAKER CALLED A STRATEGY OF "ABB" Baker with Fiffer, Work Hard, 98; Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 350.
THE REAGANS CALLED ON THE FORDS Germond and Witcover, Blue Smoke and Mirrors, 17172.
(THE REAGANS WERE ON) Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (New York, 2007), 8990.
REAGAN BROUGHT HIS OLD RIVAL A GIFT Germond and Witcover, Blue Smoke and Mirrors, 172.
"SOME CALL ME" Ibid., 17273.
REAGAN WAS STRUCK Ibid., 173.
BUSH WAS FINISHING A SESSION "George Bush Detroit Schedule," BPB diary, summer 1980.
"I KNOW WHAT I'M ASKING" Germond and Witcover, Blue Smoke and Mirrors, 173.