AFTER INVESTIGATIONS "Memorandum on the Criminal Liability of President Bush," 7689.
"MY GUT INSTINCT" GHWB diary, November 19, 1986.
"BUSH'S ACHILLES' HEEL" Walsh, Firewall, 451.
BUSH FAILED THE PRESIDENT Naftali, GHWB, 4445; Wicker, GHWB, 7784.
AS REAGAN'S ANTI-TERROR ADVISER Naftali, GHWB, 4351.
CONCERNED ABOUT THE HOSTAGES LF, 241.
SCOTTY RESTON PUBLISHED Reston, "In Praise of Losers." NYT, December 31, 1986.
"JANUARY 1ST, THE POWER" GHWB diary, January 1, 1987.
BUSH CALLED ON REAGAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE RESIDENCE Ibid., January 6, 1987.
BUSH AGREED WITH NANCY Ibid., January 7, 1987.
"HE IS ADAMANTLY AGAINST IT" Ibid., December 18, 1987.
"LEE ATWATER IS ALL CONCERNED" Ibid., December 11, 1986.
STU SPENCER, THE OLD REAGAN ADVISER Ibid., December 17, 1986.
NANCY PULLED BUSH ASIDE Ibid., December 18, 1986.
"NANCY, I'VE GOT" Ibid.
"WELL, I DO IT ALL THE TIME" Ibid.
"I SUPPOSE THAT ONE COULD SAY" Ibid., December 21, 1987.
DON REGAN HAD HUNG UP ON HER Ibid., January 7, 1987. See also Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 326, and Donald T. Regan, For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington (New York, 1988), 9091.
"I TOLD HER THAT I SIMPLY" GHWB diary, January 7, 1987.
"GET OFF MY GODDAMN BACK" Lou Cannon and David Hoffman, "GOP Senators Ask President to Replace Regan, Casey," WP, December 6, 1986; David Hoffman, "Top Aide Says Regan Should Quit," Ibid., December 18, 1986; Helen Thomas, "First Lady: Reagan Upset Truth Withheld," Ibid. See also Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 32425.
"GEORGE, I'M GOING TO HAVE" GHWB diary, February 23, 1987.
"OBSESSED" WITH THE QUESTION WP, February 27, 1987, is a telling example.
SHE BROUGHT IN ROBERT STRAUSS Ibid. See also Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 32022.
NO LONGER SPEAKING Ibid., 32829.
"THE PRESIDENT WANTS TO SEE YOU" GHWB diary, February 23, 1987.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE CHIEF OF STAFF SPOKE Ibid., February 2324, 1987.
MRS. REAGAN OBJECTED TO THE PLAN Author interview with GHWB.
JIM BAKER THAT SHE BELIEVED GHWB diary, February 24, 1987.
REGAN WAS A PROUD MAN Regan, For the Record, 369.
"DIGNIFIED DEPARTURE" Ibid., 368.
THAT WAS NOT TO BE Ibid., 37273.
"DAVID HOFFMAN [OF THE POST]" GHWB diary, December 9, 1986.
MRS. REAGAN DENIED Helen Thomas, "First Lady: Reagan Upset Truth Withheld," WP, December 18, 1986. See also Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 32425.
"BEFORE THE SUNDAY SHOWS" Author interview with GHWB; GHWB diary, February 24, 1987.
"THE STORIES ARE FULL OF NANCY REAGAN" GHWB diary, March 2, 1987.
MRS. REAGAN CONSULTED AN ASTROLOGER Regan, For the Record, 34.
"YOU DON'T KICK A MAN" GHWB diary, March 2, 1987.
BUSH'S FIRST REACTION TO DUKAKIS'S RUN GHWB diary, April 15, 1987.
A LONG STORY RAISING QUESTIONS Ibid., May 5, 1987. See also Matt Bai, All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid (New York, 2014), for a complete account of the Hart episode and its implications.
"I MUST CONFESS" GHWB diary, May 5, 1987.
JENNIFER FITZGERALD, A LONGTIME AIDE LSY, 17879; Naftali, GHWB, 52.
WHEN WORD OF A POSSIBLE NEWS STORY Author interview with Roger Ailes.
IT FELL TO AILES Ibid.
"MR. VICE PRESIDENT" Ibid.
"THEY HAVEN'T GOT SHIT" Ibid.
"AND I DON'T KNOW" Ibid.
THE DIVORCED FITZGERALD LSY, 178, 301.
SAID TO BE A STERN GATEKEEPER Ibid., 17879.
"I WAS VERY CLOSE TO HER" Author interview with GHWB.
"NO," BUSH SAID Ibid.
"IT SIMPLY DIDN'T HAPPEN" Author interview with Jennifer Fitzgerald, July 7, 2015.
"FROM TIME TO TIME" Confidential author interview.
"HE WOULD LET THINGS" Ibid.
IN JUNE 1987, THE NEW YORK TABLOIDS GHWB diary, June 5, 1987.
(ONE PROBLEM WITH THE ACCOUNT) Ibid., and June 8, 1987.
"A WHOLE NEW RASH OF RUMORS" Ibid., June 18, 1987.
A REPORTER CALLED IN SAYING Ibid.
"IT GOES RIGHT AROUND" Ibid.
BUSH WAS TOLD Ibid.
"THERE ARE NO FACTS" Ibid.
"I TALKED TO BAR" Ibid., June 20, 1987.
ON MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1987 Ibid., June 2223, 1987.
"IT'S UGLY" Ibid., June 23, 1987.
BUSH BELIEVED DOLE'S AIDES Ibid.
NEWS OF THE CALL LEAKED Ibid., June 24, 1987.
"YOU'VE HEARD THE RUMORS" Newsweek, June 29, 1987.
"THEY'RE JUST NOT TRUE" Ibid.
"THE ANSWER TO THE BIG A" Ibid.
THE SON HAD GONE PUBLIC Author interview with GWB. Atwater had asked George W. what they should do about the rumors, and George W. took it upon himself to go to his father and then to call the magazine. "I didn't ask permission," George W. recalled. "I just did it." (Ibid.) "GEORGE IS VERY NERVOUS" GHWB diary, June 26, 1987.
"RUMOR DIED DOWN" Ibid., June 29, 1987.
BUSH AGREED TO GRANT Author interviews with GHWB and GWB.
THE EDITORIAL CONSENSUS Author interviews with Evan Thomas and Richard M. Smith.
"BUSH, WHO FORMALLY DECLARES" Newsweek, October 19, 1987.
THE COVER ITSELF Ibid.
"UGLY, NASTY" GHWB diary, October 12, 1987.
"HAD TO SHOOT DOWN" Ibid.
TWENTY-SEVEN: Like You've Been Hit in the Stomach IT'S REALLY GLOOMY GHWB diary, February 9, 1988.
LEE ATWATER HAD A BAD FEELING Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover, Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars? The Trivial Pursuit of the Presidency, 1988 (New York, 1989), 103105.
DOLE AND BUSH WERE OLD RIVALS See, for instance, Peter Goldman, Tom Mathews, and the Newsweek Special Election Team, The Quest for the Presidency, 1988 (New York, 1989), 21419; Cramer, What It Takes, 89195; Lemann, "Bush and Dole," WP, February 28, 1988.
DOLE HAD NOT BEEN HAPPY Howard Fineman, "Not in Kansas Any More," Newsweek, August 19, 1996.
OFFERING "A RECORD, NOT A ReSUMe" Goldman, Mathews, et al., Quest, 210.
WAS "TOUGH. I UNDERSTAND" Germond and Witcover, Whose Broad Stripes, 149.
"I GOT HERE THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY" Ibid.
"IT IS ALMOST LIKE I DON'T EXIST" GHWB diary, August 4, 1987.
"THERE MAY BE A FALL-OUT PLAN" Ibid., June 25, 1987.
DOLE WAS GRANTED A COVETED JOINT APPEARANCE Goldman, Mathews, et al., Quest, 21516.
"HE'S WHAT THEY CALL" GHWB diary, October 13, 1987.
DOLE WAS LEADING BUSH Ibid., November 30, 1987.
IN MID-OCTOBER THE VICE PRESIDENT Ibid., October 20, 1987.
THE PRESIDENT ACCEPTED BUSH'S COUNSEL Ibid.
"DURING THIS SO-CALLED CRISIS" Ibid.
"LIKE DADDY'S, SMILING EYES" BPB diary, December 1987.
"THE DOLES WERE NOT THERE" Ibid.
"I AM CONFIDENT THAT I COULD" GHWB diary, December 8, 1987.
BUSH HAD A LONG TALK Ibid., December 8, 1987.
DURING A LIMOUSINE RIDE WITH GORBACHEV Michael R. Beschloss and Strobe Talbott, At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War (Boston, 1993), 3.
"I TOLD HIM THAT" GHWB diary, December 11, 1987.
"DOLE LOOKS PRETTY DANGEROUS" Beschloss and Talbott, At the Highest Levels, 3.