("I HOPE THAT THE LINES") Ibid.
BY THE NEXT DAY AWT, 52829.
BACK IN MAINE GHWB diary, August 21, 1991.
AS THE RAINS WHIPPED Ibid.
WAS ATTEMPTING TO REACH GORBACHEV Ibid.
"THIS OBVIOUSLY ANNOYS" Ibid.
"AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT" GHWB, "Telcon with President Boris Yeltsin of the Republic of Russia, USSR," August 21, 1991, USSR Chron File: August 1991 (1), Chronological Files, Nicholas Burns and Ed Hewett Files, NSC (OAID CF01407-007).
THE WEATHER EASED GHWB diary, August 21, 1991.
BACK AT THE PIER Ibid.
"WHO?" Ibid.
RETURNING TO HIS BEDROOM Ibid.
WEARING A DAMP WINDBREAKER See photo of GHWB and BPB in photo between pages 272 and 273 of AWT. See also C-SPAN video of GHWB briefing reporters after telephone conversation with Gorbachev at http://www.c-span.org/video/?20779-1/failed-coup-soviet-union.
"THERE IS A GOD" "President Bush to President Gorbachev Phone Call," August 21, 1991, Soviet Coup Aftermath, Yeltsin Files, Special Separate USSR Notes Files, BSC (OAID 91131-009).
"MY DEAREST GEORGE" Ibid.
"MY GOD" Ibid.
THEY SPOKE FOR ELEVEN MINUTES Ibid.
"HE SOUNDED JUBILANT" GHWB diary, August 21, 1991.
THE COUP HAD FAILED Bonnell, Cooper, and Freidin, Russia at the Barricades, 1721.
"WE COULD HAVE" GHWB diary, August 21, 1991.
THREE DAYS LATER, IN MOSCOW Ibid., August 24, 1991.
"APPEARS TO BE WEAKENED" Ibid.
BUSH LUNCHED ON THE TERRACE Ibid., September 2, 1991.
"SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED" Ibid.
ABOUT THE 1992 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN Ibid.
A POLITICAL MEMORANDUM Clayton Yeutter, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, to GHWB, September 4, 1991, DF. Though the document is in the September 4 DF, 7 is stamped "RECEIVED" on September 2.
"THOUGH THAT COULD BRING HIS PERSONAL LIFE" Ibid.
"BILL CLINTON APPEARS" GHWB diary, September 2, 1991.
BUSH HAD GOTTEN TO KNOW CLINTON Author interviews with GHWB and Bill Clinton. See also Naftali, GHWB, 142.
"I LIKE BILL" GHWB diary, September 2, 1991.
A FORMER SUBORDINATE OF THOMAS'S Chicago Tribune, October 12, 1991.
A "LAST-MINUTE SMEAR" GHWB diary, October 8, 1991.
ON THE DAY AFTER Ibid., October 9, 1991.
BUSH SAW THE MATTER Ibid., October 10, 1991.
THE PRESIDENT BELIEVED THOMAS'S Author interview with GHWB.
BARBARA JOINED BUSH GHWB diary, October 15, 1991.
"I AM VERY PROUD OF HIM" Author interview with GHWB.
ON THE HELICOPTER RIDE GHWB diary, October 14, 1991.
"THIRTY EIGHT-IT IS SO HARD" Ibid.
WHILE MONITORING THE THOMAS DRAMA Ibid.
THE SLOW ECONOMY Ibid., December 1, 1991.
BUSH'S APPROVAL NUMBERS Naftali, GHWB, 13334.
SUNUNU WAS A TOUGH See, for instance, GWB, 41, 22526, and Fitzwater, Call the Briefing!, 17578. The president himself had grown tired of staff conflicts about Sununu. To his diary on April 3, 1991, for instance, Bush confided: "The main problem that worries me now is the problem with John Sununu. Brady cannot work with him; Baker refuses to even talk to him about foreign affairs; I've been told that Cheney feels even more strongly than the others; and Bob Mosbacher is sick of him. Suddenly this matter is coming to a head and I hate it....I hate these kinds of problems-always have and always will-but this one I'm going to have to solve." (GHWB diary, April 3, 1991.) A SERIES OF REPORTS See, for example, Ann Devroy and Charles R. Babcock, "Review of Sununu's Travel Widens," WP, May 3, 1991; David Johnston, "White House Puts New Travel Curbs on Chief of Staff," NYT, June 23, 1991. See also Naftali, GHWB, 142.
TAKING A CAR AND DRIVER Newsweek, June 24, 1991. See also Ann Devroy, "Sununu Trip Said to Anger Bush," WP, June 19, 1991.
SUNUNU MAINTAINED THAT Sununu, Quiet Man, 36366.
KNOWN TO STAFFERS AS "KING JOHN" Newsweek, May 13, 1991.
WOULD GEORGE W. POLL Author interview with GWB.
"IT WAS A BIG MOMENT" Ibid.
OVER DINNER IN THE RESIDENCE Ibid.
THE PRESIDENT SAT Ibid.
FINALLY THE FATHER Ibid.
"SO WHO'S BEST" Ibid.
"IF YOU'D LIKE" Ibid.
"SON, GOOD LUCK" Ibid.
GEORGE W. HAD A CONVERSATION Bush, 41, 22526.
AFTER THE MEETING Author interview with GWB.
(AT LUNCH, FATHER AND SON) Ibid.
SUNUNU MOUNTED A BRIEF CAMPAIGN GHWB diary, December 1, 1991.
THE CHIEF OF STAFF EVENTUALLY RESIGNED Quayle, Standing Firm, 29495. Sununu finally resigned after a conversation with deputy White House chief of staff Andrew Card, who advised Sununu to write a letter of resignation "that you would want your grandchildren to read." Sununu did so, by hand, and submitted it to the president. (Author interview with Andrew Card.) "IT'S HARD TO GET" GHWB diary, December 17, 1991.
"THE LOWEST I HAVE EVER BEEN" Ibid.
"I MUST ACCEPT" Ibid.
"THE BIG THING IS" GHWB diary, December 22, 1991.
IN 1989, WHEN YITZAK SHAMIR HAD COME Haass, War of Necessity, 3940.
SHAMIR GESTURED DISMISSIVELY Ibid., 40.
"BUSH THOUGHT HE HAD" Ibid.
IN A SERIES OF TENSE MEETINGS Baker with DeFrank, Politics of Diplomacy, 44369.
HOLDING UP "$10 BILLION IN LOAN GUARANTEES" NYT, September 7, 1991.
"IT WAS HARD" Haass, War of Necessity, 145.
ISRAEL BELIEVED BUSH LARGELY "UNFRIENDLY" Ibid., 146. See also NYT, September 7, 1991.
THE PRESIDENT INADVERTENTLY REINFORCED THAT VIEW Haass, War of Necessity, 146.
HE WAS "'ONE LONELY LITTLE GUY'" Ibid.
HE TOLD BUSH AND SCOWCROFT Ibid.
THE MADRID CONFERENCE Ibid., 14647; Baker with DeFrank, Politics of Diplomacy, 51213; Michael B. Oren, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present (New York, 2007), 56971.
ON CHRISTMAS DAY, 1991, AT TEN IN THE MORNING AWT, 559.
"I CAN ASSURE YOU" GHWB, "Telcon with President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union," December 25, 1991, Presidential Telcon Files, Presidential Correspondence Files, BSC.
"AN END HAS BEEN PUT" Gaddis, Cold War, 257.
"MIKHAIL GORBACHEV'S REVOLUTIONARY POLICIES" "Address to the Nation on the Commonwealth of Independent States," December 25, 1991, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George Bush, 1991, 165355.
"I DIDN'T WANT TO GET" GHWB diary, December 25, 1991.
HIS JOY WAS TEMPERED Ibid., January 5, 1992.
TWO DAYS AFTER GORBACHEV'S ANNOUNCEMENT Ibid., December 27, 1991.
"I DON'T THINK TOO MUCH" Author interview with GHWB.
FORTY-FOUR: It Was Discouraging as Hell I JUST WISH GHWB diary, August 22, 1992.
IN TOKYO FOR A STATE VISIT GHWB diary, January 9, 1992.
"WHITE AS A SHEET" Michael Wines, "President Has Intestinal Flu," NYT, January 9, 1992.
"I REMEMBER BREAKING OUT" GHWB diary, January 9, 1992; ATB, 545.
"WHY DON'T YOU ROLL ME" NYT, January 9, 1992.
THE PRESIDENT REFUSED AN AMBULANCE Ibid.; GHWB diary, January 9, 1992.
"REGURGITATED FOOD" NYT, January 9, 1992.
"I GOT HOME" GHWB diary, January 9, 1992.
BUSH WAS BACK ON SCHEDULE NYT, January 9, 1992.
"MR. BUSH'S BOUT" Anna Quindlen, "The Stomach Thing," NYT, January 12, 1992. There was press speculation that Bush's occasional use of Halcion, a controversial sleep aid that had just been banned in Britain, may have played a role in his collapse in Tokyo. Dr. Burton Lee, the president's physician, replied that the drug, which Bush had taken earlier in the Asia trip, could not have played a role in the episode in Tokyo but also said that he would try to avoid prescribing it to Bush in the future. As Lawrence K. Altman of the Times wrote in February 1992, critics had charged that Halcion was "more likely than similar drugs to cause symptoms like amnesia, paranoia, depressions, and hallucinations." (NYT, February 6, 1992.) Though Lee continued to prescribe Halcion for Bush on what the doctor called "rare occasions" (NYT, August 14, 1992), Lee believed the Halcion issue was "a complete red herring." (Author interview with Dr. Burton Lee.) He recalled giving Bush no more than five Halcion pills through the four White House years. "He certainly did not take it on a regular basis," Lee said. (Ibid.) TO HIS RIGHT STOOD PAT BUCHANAN GHWB diary, December 8, 10, 1991. Jack Germond and Jules Witcover, Mad as Hell: Revolt at the Ballot Box, 1992 (New York, 1993), 13031.
"SNIPING AWAY" GHWB diary, January 10, 1992.
BUCHANAN'S HATRED OF THINGS IMPERIAL http://articles.latimes.com/1992-03-04/news/mn-3164_1_king-george; www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/magazine/does-anyone-have-a-grip-on-the-gop.html.
RICHARD NIXON WAS PREDICTING GHWB diary, January 10, 1992.
"LOOK, IF WE WANT TO WIN THIS" "The Limbaugh Rule Revisited," The Rush Limbaugh Show, September 16, 2010, www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2010/09/16/the_limbaugh_rule_revisited2. (Accessed from the show's web archive on March 31, 2015, and on July 11, 2015.) "RIDE TO THE SOUND OF THE GUNS" Ibid.
(TO WIN LIMBAUGH OVER) Zev Chafets, Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One (New York, 2010), 8182.
ROGER AILES HAD BROKERED Ibid., 81.
IN A CAMPAIGN MEMO, ALEX CASTELLANOS Alex Castellanos to Media Group, "Re: New Hampshire," January 6, 1992; "Feeding the Optimism," n.d.; and "Additional Points," n.d.; all in New Hampshire Primary (1), Ron Kaufman Files, White House Office of Political Affairs Bush Presidential Records, GBPL. (OAID 05594-004).
"IF WE COULD CAPTURE" Ibid.
HE HAD TO DO SOMETHING GHWB Diary, January 15, 1992.
TOOK A SLEEPING PILL Ibid.