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"SHE'S KIND OF MEAN" Ibid., July 22, 1984.

THE NIGHT BEFORE BB, 19597, covers the episode. See also ATB, 340.

"NEEDLED THE PRESIDENT" BB, 195.

"NOT A NICE THING TO SAY" Ibid.

"SHE WAS VERY GRACIOUS" Ibid.

WAS "AGONY" FOR BARBARA Ibid., 196.

"SHE FELT HORRIBLE" ATB, 340.

"FOR SEVERAL YEARS" BB, 196.

BUSH WAS WITH SOME LONGSHOREMAN ATB, 339. For the "kick a little ass" moment, see also LSY, 298; Naftali, GHWB, 42; Wicker, GHWB, 72.

A "BIG MISTAKE" ATB, 339.

(BUSH HAD NOT NOTICED) Ibid.

"EPAULETTE FLEXING" GHWB diary, September 3, 1984.

THE REAGANS OFFERED Ibid., November 17, 1984.

TWENTY-SIX: On the Eve of the Run THESE ARE SERIOUS PEOPLE James Reston, "In Praise of Losers," NYT, December 31, 1986.

BUSH FIRST RAISED GHWB diary, December 15, 1984.

BUSH MADE IT CLEAR Ibid. When Howard Baker called on Reagan to ask whether the president was going to be neutral in 1988, Reagan was "uncomfortable," Bush recalled. (Ibid.) A THIRTY-SEVEN-PAGE MEMORANDUM Lee Atwater to GHWB, "Memorandum to the Vice President, December 25, 1984," Lee Atwater, Daily File/Transition File/Alpha File, Vice Presidential Files, George H. W. Bush Collection, Donated Materials, GBPL.

(ATWATER TALKED OUT THE STRATEGY) Author interview with Jim Pinkerton.

IN THE 197980 PERIOD Ibid., 2.

"THE VP [WAS] STEREOTYPED" Ibid.

"HIGH IRONY IT IS" Ibid.

BUSH SHOULD COURT Ibid., 413.

"COSMOLOGY" Ibid., 30.

"WITH A TRACK RECORD OF" Ibid., 33.

COULD HARDLY HAVE BEEN MORE DIFFERENT John Brady, Bad Boy: The Life and Politics of Lee Atwater (Reading, Mass., 1997), 13036. My account of Atwater's life and career owes much to Brady's book, as well as to conversations with Mary Matalin and Howard Fineman.

BORN IN ATLANTA IN 1951 Brady, Bad Boy, 34.

"HE CAME OUT AND GAVE ME" Ibid., 9.

FELL UNDER THURMOND'S TUTELAGE Ibid., 3132.

A MASTER OF PRESS MANIPULATION Robert Shogan, "Lee Atwater, Tough Ex-Head of GOP, Dies," LAT, March 30, 1991; Brady, Bad Boy, 47, 13334.

(IN AN OFT-CITED EXAMPLE) Ibid.

HE HAD WORKED Brady, Bad Boy, 13236.

BELIEVED THAT BUSH Ibid., 13435, 13839.

THE QUESTION FOR Ibid., 13738; GWB, Decision Points, 43.

"IF SOMEONE THROWS A GRENADE" GWB, Decision Points, 43. See also GWB, 41, 156.

"IF YOU'RE SO WORRIED" GWB, 41, 156.

"I THINK GEORGE BUSH COMING UP HERE" GHWB diary, November 11, 1986.

ANOTHER ESSENTIAL FIGURE FOR BUSH WAS ROGER AILES Author interview with GHWB. See also McGinniss, Selling of the President, 1968, 6376.

"WE'D ALL KILL FOR" Author interview with Roger Ailes.

BUSH LOVED AILES'S IRREVERENCE Author interview with GHWB.

"BUSH WAS NOT" Author interview with Roger Ailes.

"YOU LOOK LIKE" Ibid.

BUSH WAS PHILOSOPHICAL GHWB diary, January 27, 1985.

"IF YOU WANT TO BE" Ibid., February 3, 1985.

THE UGLINESS BUSH FEARED George Will, "George Bush: The Sound of a Lapdog," WP, January 30, 1986.

"THE UNPLEASANT SOUND" Ibid.

"NOT OFF ON ONE EXTREME" GHWB diary, November 4, 1986.

ON ABORTION, HE HAD REVERSED HIMSELF Author interview with Roger Ailes.

WAS HIS DEEP LOVE Author interview with GHWB.

AND ON THE ROLE OF RELIGIOUS FAITH George Bush with Doug Wead, Man of Integrity (Eugene, Ore., 1988), 34.

"LET'S JUST HOPE THE INNER STRENGTH" GHWB diary, October 24, 1987.

"RUMSFELD-WE KEEP HEARING" Ibid., November 11, 1986.

"BELIEVE ME" Ibid., November 4, 1986.

"I KNOW I'VE GOT THE EXPERIENCE" Ibid.

THE REPUBLICANS LOST CONTROL Ibid., November 5, 1986.

IN THE FIRST WEEK OF NOVEMBER Naftali, GHWB, 4351; Wicker, GHWB, 7384; Lawrence Walsh, Iran-Contra: The Final Report (New York, 1994), 1024; Lawrence Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-up (New York, 1997), 410. See also Cramer, What It Takes, 11226.

TO HELP FREE LSY, 305; Naftali, GHWB, 46.

BUSH HIMSELF HAD CHAIRED Walter Pincus and David Hoffman, "Bush Was 'Solid' Backer of Iran Deal, Note Says," WP, December 18, 1987.

IN JULY 1985 Walsh, Iran-Contra: The Final Report, 1022.

THE RECORD IS CLEAR Naftali, GHWB, 4345; Walter Pincus and David Hoffman, "Bush Was 'Solid' Backer of Iran Deal, Note Says," WP, December 18, 1987.

"I'M ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE" GHWB diary, November 5, 1986.

"MOST IMPORTANTLY" "Bush Was Solid," WP, December 18, 1987.

THE VICE PRESIDENT HAD ALSO BEEN PRESENT George P. Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (New York, 1993), 803.

"NO ONE ELSE DID" Ibid.

BUSH WAS SILENT Lee Hamilton and Daniel Inouye, Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair (Washington, D.C., 1987), 203; Walsh, Iran-Contra: The Final Report, 18.

IN JULY 1986 Walsh, Iran-Contra: The Final Report, 22. For Nir memo, see Craig Fuller Memorandum, "The Vice President's Meeting with Mr. Nir," (July 29, 1986). The Iran-Contra Scandal: A Declassified History (1993), ed. Peter Kornbluh and Malcolm Byrne (New York, 1993), 24041; LF, 24142.

THE ISRAELI BRIEFED BUSH LF, 24142.

ACCORDING TO A MEMORANDUM Kornbluh and Byrne, eds., Iran-Contra Scandal, 24041; Bob Woodward and David Hoffman, "Bush Told U.S. Arms Deals Were with Iran Radicals," WP, February 8, 1987.

"BUSH ON TV SAYS" "Memorandum on the Criminal Liability of President Bush," March 21, 1991. Prepared for Judge Lawrence Walsh by Christian J. Mixter, 58. Though tape of this comment has never been found, Shultz clearly saw it, and Bush's initial instinct to deny reports of the initiative was also manifest in a statement issued by his vice presidential (and later presidential) press secretary, Marlin Fitzwater. "...Marlin Fitzwater, the Vice President's press secretary, reacted [in a Chicago Tribune article] by stating that the idea that Mr. Bush or any of his staff had arranged weapons deals for Iran was 'bizarre, outrageous, and absurd...not true [and] crazy.'" (Ibid., 57.) See also Naftali, GHWB, 4647.

"VP WAS PART OF IT" "Memorandum on the Criminal Liability of President Bush," 58.

SHULTZ AND HIS WIFE Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph, 8089.

BUSH FLARED "Memorandum on the Criminal Liability of President Bush," 5859.

"CONSIDERABLE TENSION" Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph, 809.

"SHULTZ WORRIES ABOUT" GHWB diary, November 10, 1986.

JIM BAKER LATER TOLD SHULTZ "Memorandum on the Criminal Liability of President Bush," 59.

ROLE OF ISRAEL Naftali, GHWB, 45.

"THEY DON'T KNOW THAT I RAISED" GHWB diary, February 16, 1987.

IN A SPEECH Naftali, GHWB, 49.

"CLEARLY, MISTAKES WERE MADE" LAT, December 4, 1986.

APPROVED THE LEAKING OF THE MEMORANDUM Author interview with Boyden Gray.

"GREAT JOB, GREAT JOB" Ibid.

BUSH'S INITIAL DENIAL "Memorandum on the Criminal Liability of President Bush," 5758.

SHULTZ RECALLED BEING "ASTONISHED" Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph, 809.

HE JUSTIFIED THE "NOT IN THE LOOP" LSY, 322. See also Los Angeles Times, January 31, 1988, and Naftali, GHWB, 50.

AFTER LUNCH ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24 GHWB diary, November 24, 1986; Walsh, Iran-Contra: The Final Report, 110; Naftali, GHWB, 48.

BUSH TOLD THE ATTORNEY GENERAL GHWB diary, November 24, 1986.

"I MUST CONFESS" Ibid.

REGAN, MEESE, AND THE PRESIDENT Ibid.

"I SAID I HOPED" Ibid.

"NO, I UNDERSTAND TOTALLY" Ibid.

"ONE OF THE WORST DAYS" Ibid.

AT DUSK, BUSH CALLED Ibid.

BUSH VOLUNTEERED TO TAKE A POLYGRAPH Ibid., November 25, 1986.

OVER THANKSGIVING AT KENNEBUNKPORT Ibid., November 2528, 1986.

THE VICE PRESIDENT HAD BOUGHT WALKER'S POINT Ibid., September 7, 1981; LSY, 25657. "The house is beyond our furthest dreams, wildest dreams, and it's a marvelous establishment," Bush told his diary in September 1981. "I worry a little bit about money. We've put so much into this house-so much more than we had thought-and I worry about what we'll do after we get out of this; how I would support things and family; and, yet, overriding it all, it's a great joy being there with the sea pounding into the rocks, the boat, the new court, being with Mother, seeing the Walkers and the kids, and our own grandchildren running around the place." (GHWB diary, September 7, 1981.) NEITHER BUSH IDEA GHWB diary, December 1, 1986.

"SIMPLE HUMAN HOPE" "The White House Crisis: 'We Gotta Take Our Lumps,'" NYT, December 4, 1986.

THE APPOINTMENT OF A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NYT, December 20, 1986. In the run-up to the appointment of the special prosecutor, "Bush was terrified that his chance at the presidency was in mortal danger because of his heavy involvement in U.S. foreign policy," Timothy Naftali noted. "In a cold-blooded move, he turned on [George] Shultz and the one remaining man in the White House who had known as much about the Iran initiative as he had, Donald Regan. On November 25, 1986, he told the president, 'I really felt that Regan should go, Shultz should go, and that he ought to get this all behind him in the next couple of months.'" (Naftali, GHWB, 48.) DONALD P. GREGG Donald P. Gregg, Pot Shards: Fragments of a Life Lived in the CIA, the White House, and the Two Koreas (Washington, D.C., 2014), 103, 24446.

OLIVER NORTH RECRUITED RODRIGUEZ Ibid., 244246.

"THERE WAS NO CREDIBLE EVIDENCE" Walsh, Iran-Contra: The Final Report, 5023. "During his trial, North alleged that Gregg was the person who introduced him to Rodriguez and that he contacted Gregg before recruiting Rodriguez to assist him in the contra-resupply effort. Gregg denied both assertions." According to Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh, "The evidence suggests that Gregg's denials are correct." (Ibid., 503.)

Walsh also reported that "A recurring problem in the investigation of the Office of the Vice President was a conflict between contemporaneously created documents-which apparently impute knowledge of North and Rodriguez's activities to the Office of the Vice President-and subsequent testimony by Gregg, Watson, Rodriguez and others which contradicted those documents." Those "contemporaneously created documents" included an entry in Oliver North's notebook, several other notes, and a "schedule memorandum detailing the purpose of Rodriguez's visit with the Vice President on May 1, 1986, as a discussion regarding 'resupply of the contras.'" (Ibid.)