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"WHAT'S THE LATEST?" Wilber, Rawhide Down, 193. Jim Baker's return from the hospital about 6:15 P.M. had also calmed things down considerably. (Ibid., 18990.) THE CABINET MEMBERS...ROSE Hedrick Smith, "Starting as an Outsider, Bush Is Now a Star Among Team Players," NYT, April 5, 1981.

LATER A FEW WOULD RECALL Ibid.

"THE PRESIDENT IS STILL" Ibid.

EXCHANGED TENSE WORDS Allen, "Day Reagan Was Shot."

WHEN SENSITIVE NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES Wilber, Rawhide Down, 19394.

BY POSING IT THEY FURTHER DEFUSED Ibid., 194.

SHOULD BUSH MAKE A PUBLIC STATEMENT Ibid.

AT EIGHT P.M., BUSH CALLED AN END Ibid.

"DEEPLY HEARTENED" Ibid.

THE PRESIDENT..."HAS EMERGED" Ibid.

PILING ON THE SECRETARY OF STATE ATB, 311.

BUSH RETURNED TO HIS OFFICE Smith, "Starting as an Outsider"; WP, April 1, 1981; Untermeyer, When Things Went Right, 44.

DECIDING AGAINST VISITING THE PRESIDENT Untermeyer, When Things Went Right, 44. 280 "SHE LOOKED TINY" Ibid.

AT ABOUT NINE THIRTY P.M. Ibid.

ART WEISE OF THE HOUSTON POST Ibid., 4445.

DID NEIL BUSH...KNOW JOHN HINCKLEY Ibid.

"THE HINCKLEYS ARE" Ibid.

WEISE MADE AN EXCELLENT POINT Ibid., 45.

"JESUS," BUSH SAID Ibid.

PETE TEELEY SUGGESTED A QUICK PROBE Ibid.

BUSH HAD THE FULLEST OF DAYS Howell Raines, "Reagan Making Good Recovery," NYT, April 1, 1981.

"NEVER FOR A MOMENT" Ibid.

IN AN EIGHTEEN-MINUTE APPEARANCE Ibid.

BUSH TOLD REPORTERS NYT, April 6, 1981.

"THAT'S THE MAIN POINT" Ibid.

THE USUAL 9:15 Untermeyer, When Things Went Right, 46.

PRESIDENT REAGAN RETURNED TO THE WHITE HOUSE Ibid., 48.

BUSH HAD SPENT PART OF THE MORNING Ibid.

A BRIGHT RED SWEATER Ibid.

"DID IT HELP ME" Author interview with GHWB.

"VICE PRESIDENT BUSH...SEEMS" Time, April 13, 1981.

"GEORGE BUSH STRUCK" William Safire, "One Fell Short," NYT, April 2, 1981.

"I HAVE NEVER BEEN" LSY, 271.

"I WORRIED ABOUT MY FRIEND" BB, 166.

OVER CLUB SANDWICHES Untermeyer, When Things Went Right, 5556.

THE PRESIDENT SPILLED SOME WATER See video of GHWB eulogy of President Ronald Reagan at http://www.c-span.org/video/?182165-1/ronald-reagan-funeral-service.

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY LATER OBSERVED Christoper Buckley, But Enough About You: Essays (New York, 2014), 160.

TWENTY-FIVE: George Did It DO YOU THINK WE FEEL Untermeyer, When Things Went Right, 274.

THE NUTS WILL NEVER BE FOR ME Ibid., 30.

AS HE RECUPERATED Reagan, American Life, 269.

"I WANTED TO LET" Ibid., 26970.

"RESERVE UNTO THEMSELVES" Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald W. Reagan, 1981 (Washington, D.C., 1982), 57.

NOW, AFTER HIS SHOOTING Reagan, American Life, 270.

"MR. PRESIDENT," REAGAN WROTE Ibid., 27273.

"ICY REPLY" Ibid., 273.

REAGAN WAS WILLING TO DEAL Martin Anderson and Annelise Anderson, Reagan's Secret War: The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster (New York, 2009), 93131.

TO PROPOSE A "ZERO-ZERO OPTION" "Remarks to Members of the National Press Club on Arms Reduction and Nuclear Weapons," Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald W. Reagan, 1981, 106267. See also Reagan, American Life, 29597.

IN THE COLD WAR OF THE EARLY 1980s John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (New York, 2005), 22128. See also Reagan, American Life, 294, 56062, for Reagan's explanation of the zero-zero option.

"I THINK THERE [IS]" GHWB diary, January 8, 1983.

THE SOVIETS REJECTED Reagan, American Life, 353. See also Ernest Conine, "Alice in Missile Wonderland," LAT, January 31, 1983.

"THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT" "Britain Plans to Counter Disarmament Movement," The Atlanta Constitution, January 31, 1983.

REAGAN ASKED BUSH For general background on the mission, see Untermeyer, When Things Went Right, 25975.

"IMPRESS UPON THEM THE DEPTH" "Bush Starts First Leg of Europe Trip," Chicago Tribune, January 31, 1983. See also Andrew J. Glass, "Bush in Europe," The Atlanta Constitution, January 30, 1983.

HE WAS "UP BUT EDGY" Untermeyer, When Things Went Right, 266.

"THE VICE PRESIDENT SEEMS TO US" "American Diplomacy on the Road," WP, January 30, 1983.

IN WEST BERLIN Ibid., February 1, 1983.

BUSH SPOKE AT A DINNER Chicago Tribune, February 1, 1983.

PULLING A PIECE OF PAPER "Reagan's Letter to Europeans," NYT, February 1, 1983.

"POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT" Michael Getler, "Bush Sees Positive Results from Reagan Summit Offer," WP, February 2, 1983.

(ANDROPOV REJECTED THE OVERTURE) NYT, February 2, 1983.

BUSH LOWERED RHETORICAL TENSIONS John Maclean, "Bush Says He Won Arms Converts," Chicago Tribune, February 6, 1983.

HE SPOKE OF KNOWING REAGAN'S "HEARTBEAT" Ibid.

MARGARET THATCHER CABLED REAGAN Jason Saltoun-Ebin & Andrea Chiampan, "The Reagan Files: The Euromissles Crisis to the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, 19791987." (thereaganfiles.com), Oct. 17, 2011.

ON THE LAST DAY OF A LONG JOURNEY Michael Getler, "Bush a Hit in Europe; Now, Does that Help?," WP, February 20, 1983.

"ONCE AGAIN I FOUND" "NATO Is Far from a Dead Alliance, Bush Declares During London Visit," The Atlanta Constitution, February 10, 1983.

THE CIA WAS REPORTING INTERNALLY GHWB diary, February 10, 1983.

AT THE GUILDHALL Untermeyer, When Things Went Right, 274.

"GREAT SINCERITY AND ALMOST CHURCHILLIAN MAJESTY" Ibid.

"IT WAS A SUCCINCT WAY" Michael Getler, "Bush a Hit in Europe," WP, February 20, 1983.

"BUSH FACED HIS EUROPEAN CHALLENGE" Untermeyer, When Things Went Right, 275.

HE WAS CONGRATULATED IN THE HALLS GHWB diary, February 10, 1983.

BUSH APPEARED ON CBS'S FACE THE NATION Ibid., February 13, 1983.

"HE LISTENED CAREFULLY" "George Did It," WP, February 13, 1983.

"GEORGE DID IT" Ibid.

"THE NUTS WILL NEVER BE FOR ME" Untermeyer, When Things Went Right, 30.

IN MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE GHWB diary, September 713, 1981.

"I DIDN'T WANT" Ibid.

"JIMMY BAKER AT YEAR END" Ibid., January 1, 1983.

"I DON'T THINK THE PRESIDENT WILL LET HIM GO" Ibid., January 4, 1983.

"HE KEEPS HIS CARDS" Ibid.

A FEW WEEKS LATER Ibid., January 1718, 1983.

"JIMMY BAKER WAS IN" Ibid.

BUSH SUGGESTED Ibid., January 18, 1983.

"HE WAS THRILLED" Ibid.

"THEY TRY AND DRAG YOU" Ibid., January 26, 1983.

"I HAD BRIEFINGS" Ibid., January 15, 1983.

REAGAN, WHO DEFERRED ACTION LSY, 255.

"THE PRESIDENT IS A DARN GOOD COMPROMISER" GHWB diary, March 8, 1983.

"INCIDENTALLY, AT THIS MOMENT" Ibid., January 1, 1983.

"TODAY, WHEN HE WALKED" Ibid., January 20, 1983.

"LIGHT READING" GHWB to JAB III, November 17, 1983, James A. Baker III, Chief of Staff Files, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

DOROTHY BUSH "REALLY WAS WONDERFUL" BPB diary, 1983.

"I HATED IT" Ibid., 1984.

"TENSIONS ARE VERY" ATB, 33839.

IN HIS EAGERNESS TO SHOW CONSERVATIVES LSY, 296.

"HIS APOSTASY" Ibid.

BUSH ENTERED A SILLY SEASON Naftali, GHWB, 42; Wicker, GHWB, 7172. Bush himself thought the campaign "tough and sometimes bitter." (ATB, 338.) "WHINE ON, HARVEST MOON" Text of the Bush-Ferraro Debate, WP, October 12, 1984.

"I'M FOR MR. REAGAN-BLINDLY" Dale Russakoff, "Bush Says He Supports the President 'Blindly,'" WP, November 2, 1984; Gerald M. Boyd, "Bush Says Exposure Hurt Intelligence Effort," NYT, November 2, 1984.

AT A RECEPTION FOR THE TODAY SHOW GHWB diary, February 25, 1987.

"IT'S FUNNY HOW" Ibid., July 15, 1984.