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BUT INCREASED TAXES Time, October 22, 1990.

THE AGREEMENT ESTABLISHED PAY-AS-YOU-GO RULES Darman, Who's in Control?, 271. See also Greene, Presidency of George Bush, 86; Naftali, GHWB, 115.

NEWT GINGRICH COULD NOT ABIDE Author interview with Newt Gingrich.

IN THE SESSION WITH BUSH Darman, Who's in Control?, 273; author interview with GHWB.

"I CAN'T DO THIS" Author interview with Newt Gingrich. Gingrich told the same story to Bill Kristol. (Newt Gingrich interview, "Conversations with Bill Kristol.") "HAD TO GIVE HIS PITCH" GHWB diary, October 2, 1990.

GINGRICH REPRESENTED A CONSERVATIVE WORLDVIEW Author interview with Newt Gingrich.

BETRAYING THE TAX-CUTTING PRINCIPLES Ibid.

"BUSH WAS A CONNECTICUT MODERATE" Ibid.

THE SHIFTING MEANS OF POLITICS Author interviews with Newt Gingrich and Vin Weber.

GINGRICH DECLINED TO JOIN Darman, Who's in Control?, 273.

"THIS ANNOYED ME VERY MUCH" GHWB diary, October 2, 1990.

THE DRIVE FOR A HOUSE MAJORITY Author interview with Newt Gingrich; Darman, Who's in Control?, 279; Naftali, GHWB, 11516.

"WHAT IS GOOD" Darman, Who's in Control?, 27980.

STANDING WITH THE OTHER LEADERS NYT, October 1, 1990.

"SOMETIMES YOU DON'T GET" Ibid.

AS CNN BROADCAST Author interview with Newt Gingrich.

NOT A "PHONY" Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George Bush, 1990, 132629.

HE HAD A DINNER DATE Ibid.

"TOTALLY UNNECESSARY" Author interview with Newt Gingrich.

"IF HE HAD JUST LOOKED THEM IN THE EYE" Author interview with Newt Gingrich.

"WE WERE STRUGGLING" GHWB diary, October 2, 1990.

"EACH CONGRESSMAN THINKS" Ibid.

"IT'S IN TROUBLE" GHWB, notes of phone call with Speaker of the House Tom Foley, October 3, 1990, DF.

ROSTENKOWSKI CALLED THE PRESIDENT GHWB, notes of phone call with Dan Rostenkowski, Wednesday, October 3, 1990, DF.

"YOU'VE GOT TO GET 51 PERCENT, PAL" Ibid.

"IT IS BUDGET" GHWB diary, October 4, 1990.

BUSH GATHERED THE CABINET GHWB, notes of phone call with Chancellor Helmut Kohl of the Federal Republic of Germany, October 3, 1990, DF.

"ARM-TWISTING" OF "DISGRUNTLED HOUSE" USA Today in White House News Summary, Wednesday, October 3, 1990, DF.

"NEWT IS OUT THERE" GHWB diary, October 4, 1990.

ON THE MORNING OF THE FOURTH Ibid.

LATER FOLEY CALLED Ibid.

"I AM MAKING" Ibid.

HE PLACED TWENTY Ibid. See also Fredrick D. McClure, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, to GHWB, "Additional Telephone Calls re: Budget Resolution," (dated October 4, 1990), October 3, 1990, DF.

"SMALL TIME: ONE CONGRESSMAN DOESN'T LIKE" GHWB diary, October 45, 1990. See also Fredrick D. McClure, Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, to GHWB, "Additional Telephone Calls re: Budget Resolution," dated October 4, 1990, October 3, 1990, DF.

IN SUNUNU'S WEST WING OFFICE Author interview with Vin Weber.

"DO NOT HESITATE TO DISTANCE" Ed Rollins, with Tom DeFrank, Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms: My Life in American Politics (New York, 1996), 206.

A FURIOUS BUSH Author interview with Vin Weber.

"I KNOW WHAT PEOPLE SAY" Ibid.

THE GINGRICH-LED REVOLT GHWB diary, October 45, 1990; John E. Yang and Tom Kenworthy, "House Rejects Deficit Reduction Agreement," WP, October 5, 1990.

"JUST STOOD ON THE FLOOR" GHWB diary, October 5, 1990.

"THEY CAN PONTIFICATE" Ibid.

"WE CAN'T BE VINDICTIVE" Ibid.

THERE WAS A PARTIAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN Ibid., October 6, 1990; Greene, The Presidency of George Bush, 87.

"EVERY CONGRESSMAN CAN FIND" GHWB diary, October 6, 1990.

WHILE JOGGING WITH JEB Ibid., October 10, 1990; Time, October 22, 1990.

"NOBODY IS PARTICULARLY" GHWB diary, October 17, 1990.

"WEAKENED POSITION" Darman, Who's in Control?, 273. See also Himelfarb and Perotti, eds., Principle Over Politics?, 2530.

THOUGH THE PRESIDENT Darman, Who's in Control?, 273.

"I SUPPORTED HIM" Author interview with Bill Clinton.

FORTY: The Threat of Impeachment IF IT STARTS DRAGGING OUT GHWB diary, November 28, 1990.

I HAVE A FEELING Ibid., January 16, 1991.

GAZE AT THE LARGE MAPS Valdez, George Herbert Walker Bush, 107.

A STRATEGY TO TRANSFORM Cheney with Cheney, In My Time, 184209.

HALF A MILLION U.S. FORCES Haass, War of Necessity, 8.

HE HAD THOROUGHLY ABSORBED THE...POWELL DOCTRINE Rick Atkinson and Bob Woodward, "Gulf Turning Points: Strategy, Diplomacy, Prolonged Buildup Reflects Doctrine of Invincible Force," WP, December 2, 1990. In this Post piece, Atkinson and Woodward wrote: "Powell's thinking on the subject...can be thought of as 'Weinberger plus.' As a one-time military assistant to former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Powell has been influenced by a 1984 speech entitled, 'The Uses of Military Power,' in which Weinberger laid out his criteria for deploying forces into combat." (WP, December 2, 1990.) See also Powell with Persico, My American Journey, 3023, and Walter LaFaber, "The Rise and Fall of Colin Powell and the Powell Doctrine," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 124, No. 1, Spring 2009, 73.

MIGHT SIGNAL WEAKNESS Naftali, GHWB, 121.

"WORD IS STILL AROUND" GHWB diary, October 31, 1990.

(CARTER LATER ANGERED) AWT, 41314.

"THE FINAL ANALYSIS" GHWB diary, November 28, 1990.

BUSH MET WITH THE CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP AWT, 400401.

"THERE'S GREAT CONCERN" Ibid., 401.

IN BUSH'S NOTES FROM THE MEETING GHWB, notes of meeting with members of Congress, White House, November 14, 1990, DF.

GIVE "SANCTIONS" Ibid.

GEPHARDT BELIEVED Ibid.

BOB DOLE ALONE Ibid.

CONGRESS WAS AT THE CENTER Author interview with Boyden Gray.

BUSH ALLUDED TO THIS POSSIBILITY GHWB diary, December 12, 1990, January 4 (twice), 12, 13, 1991.

"IT IS ONLY THE UNITED STATES" Ibid., November 28, 1990.

"I'M CONVINCED" Ibid., December 12, 1990. See also Naftali, GHWB, 122.

"IF YOU'RE WRONG ABOUT THIS" Author interview with GHWB.

AT A THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1990, MEETING "Notes from Meeting Between President Bush and Mitchell Delegation from Congress," December 20, 1990, Iraq [folder], Shawn Smealie Files, Office of Legislative Affairs, GBPL.

"WHAT DO YOU WANT" Ibid.

"COME IN" Ibid.

THE RESPONSE IN THE ROOM Ibid.

"CONGRESS IS IN A TURMOIL" GHWB diary, January 4, 1991.

IN NEW YORK AND AROUND THE WORLD, JIM BAKER Baker with DeFrank, Politics of Diplomacy, 30428; Greene, Presidency of George Bush, 125.

BUSH AND BAKER MULLED GHWB diary, November 28, 1990.

"TALKED ABOUT" Ibid.

SOME OF BAKER'S ADVISERS Author interview with James A. Baker III.

HE CITED IT FREQUENTLY Ibid., December 18, 1990; Naftali, GHWB, 113, 120.

THE RIGHT REVEREND EDMOND BROWNING GHWB diary, December 20, 1990.

"NOW WHAT DO WE DO" Ibid.

"IF I DON'T GET THE VOTES" Author interview with Robert Gates.

OVER CHRISTMAS GHWB diary, December 24, 1990.

"ALL OF THEM SAYING" Ibid.

"I KEEP THINKING" Ibid.

"THEY SAY I" Ibid.

BILLY GRAHAM CALLED IN Ibid., January 6, 1991.

"IT DOES HIT ME" Ibid.

WROTE THE CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George Bush, 1991, bk. 1 (Washington, D.C., 1992), 1314.

THE MOVE WAS TRIGGERED GHWB diary, January 8, 1991.

"I HOPE THAT" Ibid.

"TO TAKE AN OVERFLOW" Ibid.

IN GENEVA, BAKER PRESENTED Baker with DeFrank, Politics of Diplomacy, 34546.

BUSH TOOK THE CALL Ibid., 36364.

WENT TO THE BRIEFING ROOM GHWB diary, January 9, 1991, describes the day. See also Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George Bush, 1991 (Washington, D.C., 1992), 1723.

IT WAS SNOWING IN WASHINGTON GHWB diary, January 11, 1991.

LIKE MUCH OF THE COUNTRY Ibid., January 12, 1991.

"FRIGHTENED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE" Ibid.

THE PRESIDENT WON THE VOTE Greene, Presidency of George Bush, 127; LSY, 475; Naftali, GHWB, 122.