"I TOLD GORBACHEV NOT TO BE CONCERNED" AWT, 5.
BUSH WAS TELLING GORBACHEV Beschloss and Talbott, At the Highest Levels, 34.
"HE SHOULD NOT TAKE" AWT, 5.
THE FIRST SIGN OF TROUBLE Author interview with Rich Bond.
"THERE WERE THOUSANDS" Ibid.
BOND COULD ONLY ROLL HIS EYES Ibid.
BUSH FINISHED THIRD Ibid.
"IT WAS" GHWB diary, September 13, 1987.
ON THE GLOOMY FLIGHT Author interview with Rich Bond.
BOND WAS CALLED UP Ibid.
"IMMEDIATELY, MRS. BUSH" Ibid.
"PICK UP THE PIECES" GHWB diary, September 13, 1987.
RAN "AGAINST THE GRAIN" LAT, January 2, 1988.
WHAT HAD HE ADVISED Chicago Tribune, January 8, 1988.
"I SPEND A COUPLE" GHWB diary, January 10, 1988.
A BIG ARTICLE ON IRAN-CONTRA Ibid.
"TENSION CITY" Ibid.
JIM GANNON, THE EDITOR See C-SPAN video of the January 8, 1988, Republican Presidential Debate at http://www.c-span.org/video/?64-1/republican-candidates-debate. See also NYT, January 10, 1988.
BUSH ASSUMED A STERN LOOK See C-SPAN video.
"JIM, CONTRARY TO THE HYPOTHESIS" NYT, January 10, 1988.
"BUT WHAT TROUBLED ME" LF, 241.
"EXPRESSED CERTAIN RESERVATIONS" David Hoffman, "Reagan's Bush Remark Revised," WP, March 21, 1987.
PRESIDENT REAGAN HAD ISSUED A STATEMENT Ibid.
"NO, BUT I" Author interview with GHWB.
DON REGAN, WHOM BUSH HAD TREATED WP, January 15, 1988; Chicago Tribune, January 15, 1988.
"THE MORAL OF THIS" GHWB diary, January 15, 1988.
BUSH TRAILED DOLE Ibid., February 7, 1988.
BUSH LUNCHED WITH REAGAN Ibid., January 20, 1988.
"REAGAN...IS SAID" WP, January 17, 1988.
BUSH FLEW FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE GHWB diary, January 25, 1988.
THE NETWORK HAD SET UP Author interview with Roger Ailes. See also Germond and Witcover, Whose Broad Stripes, 121.
BARBARA BROUGHT A CHANGE OF CLOTHES GHWB diary, January 26, 1988.
ROGER AILES MET BUSH Germond and Witcover, Whose Broad Stripes, 12021.
THOUGH CBS HAD SAID Ibid., 11819.
AILES...WARNED BUSH Ibid., 121.
"YOU'VE EITHER GOT TO GO" Ibid.
RATHER RAN A SET-UP PIECE Ibid.
BUSH REFUSED TO GIVE Ibid., 12123.
AILES GRABBED A PIECE OF PAPER Author interview with Roger Ailes.
A LINE OF ATTACK AILES Ibid.
"I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR" Germond and Witcover, Whose Broad Stripes, 123.
A STARTLED RATHER Ibid.
AS TIME RAN OUT Ibid.
THE INTERVIEW OVER Ibid., 12324.
"TELL YOUR GODDAMNED NETWORK" Ibid.
"LOOK LIKE A PUSSY" Ibid., 124.
("PEOPLE WERE TAKING THAT") GHWB diary, January 26, 1988.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK?" Author interview with GWB.
"MAN, YOU KNOCKED IT OUT" Ibid.
MANY VIEWERS Germond and Witcover, Whose Broad Stripes, 124. See also NYT, January 27, 1988.
EVEN RONALD REAGAN APPROVED GHWB diary, January 26, 1988.
WITH TWO WEEKS TO GO Author interview with Rich Bond.
"SO, RICH, HOW ARE WE DOING?" Ibid.
"IT FEELS LIKE YOU'VE BEEN HIT" GHWB diary, February 9, 1988.
"I JUST GO ABOUT" Ibid.
"BUT THERE IS ALWAYS" Ibid., February 7, 1988.
TWENTY-EIGHT: We Came Out of the Dead I DESPERATELY WANT TO WIN GHWB diary, February 15, 1988.
HE WAS IN HIS PAJAMAS Germond and Witcover, Whose Broad Stripes, 13031.
BUSH HAD DECLINED TO SPEND THE NIGHT Ibid., 130. He stayed at the Clarion Hotel. (Ibid.) "I HAD MY WHOLE LITTLE SPEECH" Ibid.
BUSH WAS INTERESTED IN TODAY Ibid., 131.
"WE'VE GOT EIGHT DAYS" Ibid.
WAS PUT IN CHARGE Author interview with Andrew Card. Card recalled, too, a confusing state of affairs in Michigan, where Pat Robertson supporters elected a rival set of delegates at the state's GOP convention. (See, for instance, James Risen, "Bush Gets Most Delegates; Robertson Forces Elect Rival Slate," LAT, January 31, 1988,) "So we had two strikes against us going into New Hampshire-Iowa and Michigan," Card said. (Author interview with Andrew Card.) "NOBODY SHOULD GET OFF" Ibid.
"IDENTIFY THE VOTE" Ibid.
JOHN SUNUNU WAS ALSO A CRITICAL John Sununu interview, George H. W. Bush Oral History Project, Miller Center. See also John Sununu, The Quiet Man: The Indispensable Presidency of George H. W. Bush (New York, 2015).
SUNUNU ARRANGED FOR BUSH TO SHAKE John Sununu interview, George H. W. Bush Oral History Project, Miller Center.
ON NEW YEAR'S EVE Ibid.
THE POLLS WERE BAD Germond and Witcover, Whose Broad Stripes, 132.
THREW HIMSELF INTO THE STATE GHWB diary, February 1988; Germond and Witcover, Whose Broad Stripes, 131; John Sununu interview, George H. W. Bush Oral History Project, Miller Center.
"WATCH AND WAIT" GHWB diary, February 15, 1988.
"IF I DON'T MAKE IT" Ibid., February 11, 1988.
DOLE CONTINUED TO DIMINISH Germond and Witcover, Whose Broad Stripes, 138. 323 "HE TAKES CREDIT" Ibid.
"IT'S QUITE CLEAR" Ibid., 139.
ROGER AILES AGREED Author interview with Roger Ailes.
"I WANTED TO GO NEGATIVE" Ibid.
HE MADE ONE ANYWAY Ibid. See also GHWB diary, February 15, 1988.
IN THE CANDIDATE'S HOTEL ROOM Author interview with Roger Ailes.
BUSH LOOKED AT THE FLOOR Ibid.
"IT SEEMED TO ME TOO HARSH" GHWB diary, February 13, 1988.
THE POLLS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE Author interview with Roger Ailes.
"WE'RE EITHER EIGHT UP" Ibid.
BUSH'S ADVISERS CAME BACK Ibid.
"I SIMPLY HAVE TO" GHWB diary, February 14, 1988.
AILES AND ATWATER PRESSED Author interview with Roger Ailes.
THEN BARBARA BUSH WEIGHED IN Germond and Witcover, Whose Broad Stripes, 142. 324 BUSH PONDERED Author interview with Roger Ailes.
"ARE YOU CERTAIN" Ibid.
"I TAKE THAT AS A YES" Ibid.
HIS OLD RIVAL DONALD RUMSFELD GHWB diary, February 14, 1988.
BUSH SLEPT FAIRLY WELL Ibid.
"I DESPERATELY WANT TO WIN" Ibid., February 15, 1988.
ON PRIMARY DAY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE Ibid., February 16, 1988.
AFTER A LUNCH OF CHOWDER Ibid.
WITH BARBARA AND THE REST Ibid.
WHEN HE RETURNED Ibid.
"WE CAME OUT OF THE DEAD" Ibid., February 16, 1988.
"THE EMOTIONS ARE HIGH" Ibid., February 17, 1988.
BUSH DEFEATED DOLE Germond and Witcover, Whose Broad Stripes, 145.
ON TELEVISION THAT EVENING GHWB diary, February 17, 1988.
"I WISH HIM WELL" Ibid.
"YES, TELL HIM TO STOP" Ibid.
ON THE DAY AFTER THE PRIMARY Ibid.