Destiny And Power - Destiny and Power Part 74
Library

Destiny and Power Part 74

REAGAN HAD SPOKEN Baker with DeFrank, Politics of Diplomacy, 606, 609.

WHEN CONGRESS MOVED Linda Diebel, "U.S. Vote Puts Bush Closer to 'Fast Track' on Mexican Trade Deal," Toronto Star, May 24, 1991.

"THIS IS A VERY" Ibid.

FACING CONCERNS THAT Ibid.

"THE WHITE HOUSE ALMOST" Ibid.

A CONFIRMED FREE TRADER Baker with DeFrank, Politics of Diplomacy, 608.

IN LATE JUNE, THURGOOD MARSHALL GHWB diary, June 27, 1991.

BUSH MOVED QUICKLY Ibid; Naftali, GHWB, 13435.

BUSH THOUGHT OF A YOUNG FEDERAL JUDGE GHWB diary, June 27, 1991.

THE SMALL AFRICAN AMERICAN REPUBLICAN WORLD Author interview with Clarence Thomas.

"VERY CLOSE TO A DECISION" GHWB diary, July 1, 1991.

WHEN THOMAS ARRIVED AT WALKER'S POINT Author interview with Clarence Thomas.

THE STAFF SMUGGLED Ibid.

"AS AN UMPIRE WOULD" GHWB diary, July 2, 1991.

PROMISED NEVER TO CRITICIZE Author interview with Clarence Thomas.

"IF HE WAS READY FOR THE BRUISING FIGHT" Ibid.

THOMAS SAID YES Author interview with Clarence Thomas.

"IF HE RULES AGAINST" GHWB diary, July 3, 1991.

AFTER A JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE NYT, July 2, 1991; "The President's News Conference in Kennebunkport, Maine," July 1, 1991, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George Bush, 1991, 80112.

"A MAZE OF HIGHLY LEGALISTIC" Himelfarb and Perotti, Principle Over Politics?, 183. For an overview of the civil rights bill battles of the Bush administration, see ibid., 182202, and Sununu, Quiet Man, 2552, 25660.

SUPPORTED BY DEMOCRATS "Thumbing His Nose at Congress; Mr. Bush Signs-and Undermines-the Rights Bill," NYT, November 22, 1991. For the controversy surrounding the bill's signing, see Andrew Rosenthal, "Reaffirming Commitment, Bush Signs Rights Bill," Ibid.

ON THE FIRST WEEKEND IN AUGUST Andrew Rosenthal, "Bush and Advisors Lay Groundwork for '92 Race," NYT, August 4, 1991.

A DISPIRITING PRESENTATION FROM BOB TEETER Ibid.; GHWB diary, August 4, 1991.

THE GROUP OF ADVISERS WAS LARGE GHWB diary, August 4, 1991; Andrew Rosenthal, "Bush and Advisors Lay Groundwork for '92 Race," NYT, August 4, 1991; Notes, Political Meeting at Camp David, August 3, 1991, Correspondence Files, James W. Cicconi Collection, GBPL.

ACCORDING TO NOTES OF THE MEETING Notes, Political meeting at Camp David, August 3, 1991, Correspondence Files, James W. Cicconi Collection, GBPL.

"CONCLUSION: HAVE WORK" Ibid.

"UNEMPLOYMENT [HAS] REPLACED" Ibid.

"KEY: AT EARLY STAGES" Ibid.

"OFF-WHITE LEATHER SHOES" Maureen Dowd, "As Golf Duo, First Family Becomes Average Family," NYT, August 18, 1991.

AT THE ANNUAL VESTRY BREAKFAST GHWB diary, August 18, 1991.

BUSH WENT TO BED Ibid., August 1819, 1991.

FORTY-THREE: A Coup in Moscow THE COMPLEXITIES OF ALL THIS GHWB diary, August 20, 1991.

THE CALL FROM SCOWCROFT Ibid., August 19, 1991.

BUSH PICKED UP THE PHONE Ibid.; Beschloss and Talbott, At the Highest Levels, 422.

BUSH HAD JUST COME GHWB, "Meeting with President Mikhail Gorbachev of the USSR," London, July 17, 1991, Memcons/Telcons (JanuaryDecember) 1991 (3), Memorandum of Conversation/Telephone Conversation Files, Meetings Files, BSC (OAID 91156-008); GHWB, "Three-on-Three Meeting with President Mikhail Gorbachev," Novo-Ogarevo, USSR, July 31, 1991, Memcons/Telcons (JanuaryDecember) 1991 (3), Memorandum of Conversation/Telephone Conversation Files, Meetings Files, BSC (OAID 91156-008).

AT ABOUT 5:30 A.M. ON MONDAY GHWB diary, August 19, 1991. See also Naftali, GHWB, 13538, for an overview of the coup attempt.

"HAS BEEN PUT OUT" GHWB diary, August 19, 1991.

"BY RIGHT-WING FORCES" Nicholas Burns to Brent Scowcroft, November 13, 1991; "Chronology of the President's Warning to President Gorbachev Concerning a Possible Coup Attempt"; Mikhail Gorbachev to GHWB, August 31, 1991; Gennady Yanayev to GHWB, August 19, 1991; all in Gorbachev-Sensitive JulyDecember 1991 (2), Gorbachev Files, Special Separate USSR Notes Files, BSC (OAID 91130-004).

SOVIET COLD WARRIORS GHWB diary, August 19, 1991.

GORBACHEV'S POPULARITY HAD BEEN FALLING Maynard, Out of the Shadow, 9395.

BEAR-LIKE AND HARD DRINKING WP, August 22, 1991.

YELTSIN TOOK OFFICE Maynard, Out of the Shadow, 99.

JUST AS GORBACHEV AGREED Ibid.

THE DOCUMENT HAD Ibid; Naftali, GHWB, 137; Beschloss and Talbott, At the Highest Levels, 41821.

GORBACHEV HAD BEEN VACATIONING Mikhail Gorbachev, The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessons (New York, 1991), 1719.

THAT "A GROUP OF PEOPLE" Ibid., 18.

"I WAS NOT EXPECTING ANYBODY" Ibid.

HE PICKED UP A TELEPHONE Ibid.

THE LINE WAS DEAD Ibid. "The conspirators had apparently decided in advance that they would not succeed in coming to terms with me and had prepared the alternative of isolating me," Gorbachev recalled. (Ibid.) HE SHOULD DECLARE Victoria E. Bonnell, Ann Cooper, and Gregory Freidin, eds., Russia at the Barricades: Eyewitness Accounts of the August 1991 Coup (Armonk, NY, 1994), 10.

"THINK AGAIN" Gorbachev, August Coup, 23.

250,000 PAIRS OF HANDCUFFS Bonnell, Cooper, and Freidin, Russia at the Barricades, 17.

TANKS BEGAN TO ROLL Ibid., 1011.

NO ONE IN THE UNITED STATES Author interviews with GHWB and Brent Scowcroft.

THE GOLF WITH ROGER CLEMENS Author interview with Tim Samway.

"NOT PLAYING GOLF" Ibid.

THEY WERE GREETED BY BARBARA BUSH Ibid.

HER HUSBAND HAD ONCE Author interview with BPB.

SIGNING A BOX OF BASEBALLS Author interview with Tim Samway.

AS HE APPROVED GHWB diary, August 19, 1991.

"WILL THERE BE" Ibid.

THERE WAS A NEW FIGUREHEAD PRESIDENT Ibid.

"GRUMBLING ALL THE TIME" Ibid.

BUSH SPOKE TO HIS OPPOSITE NUMBERS Ibid.

"THEY AGREE WITH" Ibid.

SPEAKING TO FRANcOIS MITTERRAND AWT, 520.

AT TEN TO EIGHT IN THE MORNING "Remarks on the Attempted Coup in the Soviet Union and an Exchange with Reporters in Kennebunkport, Maine," August 19, 1991, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George Bush: 1991, 105762; AWT, 521.

THE RAIN HAD COME AWT, 521.

"THE WEST OBVIOUSLY" "Statement [to the Press] Made by GB at USSS [United States Secret Service]," August 19, 1991, DF.

CALLING THE DEVELOPMENTS Ibid.

SUBTLY DEFENDING GORBACHEV "Remarks on the Attempted Coup in the Soviet Union and an Exchange with Reporters in Kennebunkport, Maine," August 19, 1991, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George Bush: 1991, 105762. See also Naftali, GHWB, 137.

ECHOING MITTERRAND Ibid.

ASKED WHAT HE THOUGHT Ibid.

SHOULD THE HARD-LINERS Ibid.

HIS SENSE OF PROPORTION Ibid.

HAD BUSH USED Ibid.

HE HAD SENT THE MESSAGE Ibid.

BUSH MADE PLANS TO RETURN GHWB diary, August 19, 1991.

BRIAN MULRONEY ASKED BUSH AWT, 522-23.

"A DISINTEGRATION" Gennady Yanayev to GHWB, August 19, 1991, Gorbachev-Sensitive JulyDecember 1991 (2), Gorbachev Files, Special Separate USSR Notes Files, BSC (OAID 91130-004).

JOHN MAJOR SUGGESTED A NATO MINISTERIAL MEETING GHWB diary, August 19, 1991.

"IT WILL MAKE IT LOOK LIKE" Ibid.

YELTSIN, WHOM THE USURPERS "White House News Summary, 8:45 A.M. News Update," August 19, 1991, DF. See also Naftali, GHWB, 137.

"NO TO FASCISM" "White House News Summary, 8:45 A.M. News Update," August 19, 1991, DF.

"ENORMOUS GUTS" GHWB, "Telephone Conversation with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada on August 19, 1991," USSR Chron File: August 1991 (2), Chronological Files, Nicholas Burns and Ed Hewett Files, NSC (OAID CF01407-008).

BUSH CALLED VACLAV HAVEL GHWB, "Telcon with Vaclav Havel, President of Czechoslovakia," August 19, 1991, USSR-Part 1 of 4-Moscow Coup Attempt (1991) (1), USSR-1990 Moscow Coup Attempt File, White House Situation Room File, NSC (OAID CF1407-008).

"WE ARE AFRAID" GHWB, "Telcon with Lech Walesa, President of Poland," August 19, 1991, USSR Chron File: August 1991 (2), Chronological Files, Nicholas Burns and Ed Hewett Files, NSC (OAID CF01407-008).

JUST A FEW WEEKS BEFORE NYT, August 2, 1991. See also John-Thor Dahlburg, "Bush's 'Chicken Kiev' Talk-an Ill-Fated U.S. Policy," LAT, December 19, 1991.

"SOME PEOPLE HAVE" NYT, August 2, 1991.

THE "CHICKEN KIEV SPEECH" Ibid., August 29, 1991.

SENT THE WRONG SIGNAL Dahlburg, "Bush's 'Chicken Kiev' Talk," LAT, December 19, 1991.

"THE THING IS TO BE CALM" GHWB diary, August 19, 1991.

I HOPE THEY HAVE NOT MISTREATED YOU Ibid.

"WHAT HAD TO HAPPEN" Ibid.

BUSH SPOKE TO YELTSIN Ibid., August 20, 1991.

YELTSIN'S HEADQUARTERS Ibid.

"HE THINKS" Ibid.

YELTSIN REPORTED THAT Ibid. See also AWT, 52728.

BUSH TOLD YELTSIN AWT, 528.

"NO, ABSOLUTELY" Ibid.

"DEMAND TO SPEAK ON THE PHONE" GHWB, "Telcon with President Boris Yeltsin of the Republic of Russia, USSR," August 20, 1991, USSR Chron File: August 1991 (1), Chronological Files, Nicholas Burns and Ed Hewett Files, NSC (OAID CF01407-007).