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THE BUSHES MET THE REAGANS LF, 1516.

"NO HINT OF ANY TENSION" Ibid., 16.

REAGAN AIDE MICHAEL DEAVER REMEMBERED NYT, April 5, 1981.

AT A PRESS CONFERENCE Ibid., July 18, 1980.

A REPORTER PRESSED BUSH Ibid.

THEN BUSH MADE A POINT Ibid.

BUT HOW, BUSH WAS ASKED Ibid.

"MY VIEW IS THAT" Ibid.

WHAT ABOUT REAGAN'S Ibid.

"LISTEN, LET ME" Ibid.

THERE WERE TWO CRITERIA Ibid.

WHAT ABOUT BUSH'S Ibid.

"CAN YOU EVER IMAGINE" Ibid.

WORKING OVERNIGHT AND INTO THURSDAY BPB diary, summer 1980.

"WE FOUND NO BAD FEELING" Ibid.

DURING AN INTRODUCTORY FILM FOR REAGAN Ibid.

ON FRIDAY MORNING THE REAGANS AND THE BUSHES NYT, July 20, 1980.

"IF TEXAS AND CALIFORNIA" Ibid.

"HE IS A SERIOUS" "Mr. Reagan's Second Choice," NYT, July 18, 1980.

"LIFE IS NOW HECTIC" ATB, 302.

TWENTY-TWO: Well, What Do We Do Now?

CALL ME IF I CAN LIGHTEN ATB, 303.

"IT WAS A CLIFFHANGER" Richard Nixon to GHWB, July 19, 1980, Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library. "I am pleased to be on this ticket," Bush replied. "We can win, but I'm one who feels it will be a very tough race-Mr. Carter is a no-holds-barred guy." (GHWB to Richard Nixon, July 28, 1980, Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library.) AT THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB BPB diary, summer 1980.

"LOTS OF TOP REAGAN PEOPLE" Ibid.

"GEORGE LOST THE ELECTION" Ibid.

A TRIP TO JAPAN AND TO CHINA LSY, 248; BPB diary, August 1980. Bush would be dogged for years by unsubstantiated rumors that he had played a role in an alleged effort by the Reagan campaign to delay the release of the American hostages in Iran until after the 1980 election. Bush was long alleged to have traveled to Paris for clandestine meetings as part of such an effort-a tale declared false in 1992 by a House task force on the so-called October Surprise. See, for instance, NYT, July 2, 1992.

REAGAN'S APPARENT SUGGESTION Cannon, Reagan, 27273; Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny, 448; NYT, August 17, 1980.

WHEN THE BUSHES ARRIVED BPB diary, August 20, 1980.

ONE SIGN OF HOW UPSET Ibid., August 22, 1980.

MET THE PRESS WP, August 26, 1980.

"THE GOVERNOR IS" BPB diary, August 25, 1980.

IN HER DIARY, BARBARA AGREED Ibid., August 23, 1980.

"REAGAN'S GLITCHES" Ibid., September 7, 1980.

BUSH APPEARED ON MEET THE PRESS Meet the Press, NBC, guest: George Bush, Republican vice presidential nominee. September 7, 1980. Vol. 80. Kelly Press, Inc., Betty Cole Dukert Papers, State Historical Society of Missouri.

REAGAN'S VIEW THAT Ibid.

"PERIPHERAL" Ibid.

THE BUSHES FLEW IN BPB diary, October 28, 1980.

"RONNIE NEVER WEARS" Ibid.

A GROUP OF BIG-DOLLAR REPUBLICAN DONORS Ibid., September 29, 1980.

"THAT IF IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE LOSING" Ibid., September 13, 1980.

PRESENTING REAGAN IN A MODERATE LIGHT NYT, November 1, 1980; WP, November 1, 1980.

ON THE LAST DAY OF CAMPAIGNING Author interview with Stu Spencer.

"I'M AWFUL" Ibid.

"THEN REAGAN JUST NAILED IT" Ibid.

"IN LIKE A BURGLAR" Cannon, Reagan, 302.

SITTING ON THE FLOOR Arthur Sulzberger Jr., "Bush, in Victory Talk, Says Reagan Will Lead U.S. 'Back to Greatness,'" NYT, November 5, 1980.

(CARTER CALLED REAGAN TO CONCEDE) Reagan, An American Life, 221.

REAGAN-BUSH WON THE POPULAR VOTE www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1980.

"WELL DONE, SIR" NYT, November 6, 1980.

"WELL, WHAT DO" Ibid.

THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS Ibid., November 7, 1980.

"TONS TO DO" Ibid.

"GOING TO A LOT" Ibid.

"I'D LOVE TO SIT DOWN" ATB, 302.

"PLEASE KNOW THAT" Ibid., 303.

THE ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS Dean Burch to GHWB, November 21, 1980, box 66/1, James A Baker III Papers, Princeton.

"I) YOU AND THE PRESIDENT" Ibid.

"I LIKE IT" GHWB to JAB III, December 2, 1980, box 66/1, James A. Baker III Papers, Princeton.

"MY PRESENCE [WILL] HOPEFULLY" Undated notes, James A. Baker III Papers, Princeton.

"THEN WHY" Chase Untermeyer, When Things Went Right: The Dawn of the Reagan-Bush Administration (College Station, Tex., 2013), 13.

"BECAUSE WITH A 70-YEAR-OLD PRESIDENT" Ibid.

TWENTY-THREE: The Special Relationship HE'S HARD TO READ GHWB diary, April 13, 1983.

"BUSH HAD A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP" Martin Anderson, Revolution (San Diego, 1988), 31213.

"DEEP INTO THE INNER SANCTUMS" Ibid., 313.

"I KNOW BOTH OF THEM" Author interview with Boyden Gray.

BUSH HAD HARDLY BEEN Author observation.

"DON'T UPSTAGE THE PRESIDENT'S STAFF" Untermeyer, When Things Went Right, 17. 262 "NO SURPRISES" Ibid.

HE HOPED TO Wicker, GHWB, 64.

"'SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM 1600'" GHWB diary, September 13, 1981.

BUSH DEVELOPED A SET OF INFORMAL RULES LF, 22730.

FIRST, DON'T PLAY Ibid., 22728.

"BE SURE NOT TO TAKE" Ibid., 232.

"THE VICE PRESIDENT'S AUTHORITY" Ibid.

WHICH IS WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO ROCKEFELLER Ibid., 23233.

"I SPENT SIXTEEN YEARS" Untermeyer, When Things Went Right, 26.

"UNTHREATENED BY PEOPLE" ATB, 313.

THERE WERE WEEKLY LUNCHES LF, 23132.

(BUSH ADDED A LOT OF HOT SAUCE) GHWB diary, June 25, 1987.

"BEFORE LUNCH EVERY WEEK" Author interview with Boyden Gray.

"GEORGE, I'VE GOT A QUESTION" GHWB diary, November 20, 1986.

"WAS BUSY AND HE WASN'T" Ibid., September 13, 1981.

GRAY REMEMBERED A MEETING Author interview with Boyden Gray.

"THAT WAS THE LEVEL OF COMFORT" Ibid.

WHILE REAGAN HIMSELF WAS PERFECTLY PLEASANT Author interview with GHWB. "Ronald Reagan had great affection for George Bush, and respect," recalled Frederick J. Ryan, Reagan's first post-presidential chief of staff. (Author interview with Frederick J. Ryan.) RARELY INVITED Author interview with BPB.

"RIGHT AFTER REAGAN" Author interview with GHWB.

ONE SIGN OF BUSH'S SUCCESS Reagan, American Life, 255.

THE DECISION ENRAGED HAIG Ibid., 25556.

"THE PRESIDENT SIMPLY FEELS" LSY, 266.

THE ROLLBACK OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS LF, 233; LSY, 26365; Anderson, Revolution, 25961; author interviews with GHWB and Boyden Gray. Bush was also essential on a tricky trade question with the Japanese. See Reagan, American Life, 25354, 27374.

ACCORDING TO DOMESTIC POLICY ADVISER Anderson, Revolution, 260.

"THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY TIME" Ibid.

"RONALD REAGAN DELEGATED" Author interview with Boyden Gray.

BUSH TOOK OFF ON A FOUR-DAY TRIP Untermeyer, When Things Went Right, 3435.

AN ODD RUMOR HAD BEGUN Ibid., 36. According to different versions, the alleged incident was said to have taken place either in Georgetown or on Capitol Hill. (Ibid., 3536; see also WP, March 22, 1981.) IN MELBOURNE, FLORIDA Untermeyer, When Things Went Right, 35.

THE NEXT MORNING Ibid.

WHERE HAD THE STORY Ibid., 36.

SHIRLEY GREEN, TEELEY'S DEPUTY, WARNED Ibid.

THE FBI WAS CALLED IN Ibid., 3637.

THE WASHINGTON POST PUBLISHED A PIECE Ibid., 37. Janet Cooke and Benjamin Weiser shared a byline on the March 22 story. (WP, March 22, 1981.) "WE HANDLED THE WHOLE MATTER" Untermeyer, When Things Went Right, 37.

BUSH ATTENDED Ibid., 39. See also Del Quentin Wilber, Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan (New York, 2011), 49; WP, March 30, 1981.