THE DAY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE Maureen Dowd, "The 1992 Campaign: Republicans; Immersing Himself in Nitty-Gritty, Bush Barnstorms New Hampshire," NYT, January 16, 1992; Mary McGrory, "Romancing the Granite State," WP, January 16, 1992.
"YOU TRY TO SMILE" GHWB diary, January 16, 1992.
IN ORLANDO THE WEEK AFTER Andrew Rosenthal, "Bush Encounters the Supermarket," NYT, February 5, 1992; Naftali, GHWB, 140.
WATCHING A LIVE VIDEO FEED Author interview with Andrew Rosenthal.
"AMAZED" Rosenthal, "Bush Encounters the Supermarket," NYT, February 5, 1992.
THE WHITE HOUSE PUSHED BACK Joel Brinkley, "On Tape, a President Intrigued By a Scanner," NYT, February 13, 1992. See also Ned Zeman, "Bush Was Not 'Amazed,' Newsweek, February 23, 1992, www.newsweek.com/bush-was-not-amazed-200630.
NEW TECHNOLOGY Christopher Connell, "White House Says Media's Checkout Was Faulty on Scanner Episode," Associated Press, February 11, 1992, www.apnewsarchive.com/1992/White-House-Says-Media-s-Checkout-Was-Faulty-on-Scanner-Episode/id-be6124e315259d11c1fd6371ba47b68f.
"RIPPED AND JUMBLED" Ibid.
"MEDIA-MANUFACTURED" Ibid.
"ALL IN ALL" GHWB diary, February 5, 1992.
NEW YORK POST HAD PUBLISHED A STORY GHWB diary, January 1920, 1992.
GENNIFER FLOWERS, AN ARKANSAS WOMAN "Clinton Denounces New Report of Affair," NYT, January 24, 1992; Dan Balz and Howard Kurtz, "Clinton Calls Tabloid Report of 12-Year Affair 'Not True,'" WP, January 24, 1992.
"IT MAKES POLITICS UGLY" GHWB diary, January 24, 1992.
"THEY OUGHT [TO] LEAVE" Ibid., January 25, 1992.
A LETTER BILL CLINTON HAD WRITTEN Ibid., February 6, 1992. See also Germond and Witcover, Mad as Hell; Dan Balz, "Clinton and the Draft: Anatomy of a Controversy," WP, September 13, 1992; Clinton, My Life, 15461, 191210; Naftali, GHWB, 142.
"HERE'S A GUY WHO SAID" GHWB diary, February 6, 1992.
IN MID-FEBRUARY, AFTER A POLLSTER FOR BOB KERREY Bob Shrum, No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner (New York, 2007), 21819.
BUSH ISSUED A STERN MEMORANDUM GHWB to Sam Skinner, Bob Mosbacher, Bob Teeter, and Fred Malek, "Re: Dirty Campaigning," February 17, 1992, Ronald Kaufman Correspondence/Miscellaneous Memoranda 3 (3), Ron Kaufman Files, White House Office of Political Affairs Bush Presidential Records, GBPL. (OAID 07888-013).
A VIEW THAT LEE ATWATER Lee Atwater with Todd Brewster, "Lee Atwater's Last Campaign," Life, February, 1991.
"IN 1988, FIGHTING DUKAKIS" "Gravely Ill, Atwater Offers Apology," NYT, January 13, 1991.
"WE OBVIOUSLY WERE ON OPPOSITE SIDES" Robert Shogan, "Lee Atwater, Tough Ex-Head of GOP, Dies," LAT, March 30, 1991.
"HE SUFFERED A LOT" GHWB diary, March 29, 1991.
BUSH WON, BUT BUCHANAN NYT, February 19, 1992.
NEWT GINGRICH TOLD THE NEW YORK TIMES Ibid.
BOB TEETER ARGUED THAT GHWB diary, February 24, 1992.
AGREEING WITH QUAYLE Ibid.
HIS "BIGGEST MISTAKE" Ann Devroy, "Breaking Tax Pledge a Mistake, Bush Says," WP, March 4, 1991; Naftali, GHWB, 14041.
"IT'S HARD TO TELL" GHWB diary, March 3, 1992.
ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1992 Ibid., March 18, 1992.
AILES, WHO HAD BEEN Author interview with Roger Ailes.
("REELECTIONS ARE ALWAYS") Ibid.
"THE UGLINESS THE CLINTON PEOPLE" GHWB diary, March 18, 1992.
HILLARY CLINTON IN VANITY FAIR Gail Sheehy, Hillary's Choice (New York, 1999), 2045.
"WHY DOES THE PRESS" Ibid., 204.
"I'M CONVINCED PART OF IT" Ibid. Mrs. Clinton cited a conversation that she had had with Anne Cox Chambers, the Atlanta newspaper owner, about Bush and Fitzgerald.
"BALONEY," REPLIED BARBARA BUSH Donnie Radcliffe, "Granny Get Your Gun," WP, August 19, 1992.
"LOWER THAN LOW" Ibid.
"IT'S JUST THE SYMBOL" GHWB diary, April 7, 1992.
A NEW BIOGRAPHY Howard Kurtz, "Bush Angrily Denounces Report of Extramarital Affair as 'a Lie,'" WP, August 12, 1992. The book was by Susan B. Trento, The Power House: Robert Keith Gray and the Selling of Access and Influence in Washington (New York, 1992). Bush infidelity allegations were also in the air at the time after the publication of Joe Conason, "1,000 Reasons Not to Vote for George Bush," Spy, July/August 1992.
A NOW-DEAD AMBASSADOR Kurtz, "Bush Angrily Denounces Report," WP, August 12, 1992. The ambassador was the late Lou Fields. According to the Post account, "The book quotes the late Louis Fields, former U.S. ambassador to the arms-control talks in Switzerland, as saying that in 1984 he arranged for thenVice President Bush and Fitzgerald to use a guest house in Geneva. Fields did not say he had firsthand knowledge of an affair but said the living arrangements made him uncomfortable. The book says Fields gave the account in 1986 to former CNN investigative reporter Joe Trento, the author's husband, and later repeated it to two other people." (Ibid.) THE STORY WAS BEING PROMOTED BY DEMOCRATS Ibid.; Fitzwater, Call the Briefing!, 353.
AT A PRESS CONFERENCE Fitzwater, Call the Briefing!, 35253.
A FURIOUS PRESIDENT Ibid., 352. "We checked our records and found that Jennifer did stay in Chateau de Bellerive, probably in their guest house; but that I stayed in the main house, and Tim McBride and others were in the house, too," Bush told his diary. (GHWB diary, August 11, 1992.) The next day Bush added: "It was just crazy. I can't remember the details, but I do know that there were a ton of people around that house, and I know others stayed there. But it doesn't matter what the fact is, it's the salacious media that go for it." (Ibid., August 12, 1992.)
Fitzgerald, who had been appointed deputy chief of protocol at the State Department, had made news on one other occasion during the presidency by failing to declare the full value of one item and another item altogether when she returned from a government trip to Argentina. (LAT, April 18, 1990; GHWB diary, April 24, 1990.) The Los Angeles Times reported: "According to the Customs Service, Fitzgerald, who had traveled to Argentina as part of an official U.S. delegation, returned with a raincoat purchased abroad, which she declared to be worth $300. She did not mention in the customs delcaration that the coat was lined with nutria fur. The customs agent appraised the coat at $1,100, and Fitzgerald was asked to pay a penalty of $440. For a fur cape worth $1,300 that she failed to disclose altogether, Fitzgerald was assessed $208." (LAT, April 18, 1990.) To his diary, Bush dictated: "She made a mistake and should've reported it, and now all the people who hate her are coming out of the woodwork, and the attacks are strong....She writes Bar a lovely letter, but the wolves are out, and they blow the whistle on her for something that-let's face it-many people do. It's not right and they shouldn't, and Jennifer shouldn't...but it's a common practice when you are given custom privileges at Andrews returning on a flight. The Congressmen do it all the time." (GHWB diary, April 24, 1990.)
"MY MAIN WORRY" GHWB diary, August 23, 1992.
ROSS PEROT, WHO HAD LONG BEEN GHWB diary, March 19, 1992; David Gergen, "Outside: Can an Amateur Like Ross Perot Shake Up the Election Professionals?" WP, March 29, 1992; "Perot 20 Years Later," USA Today, December 10, 2001; www.britannica.com/biography/Ross-Perot.
"A BIG MASSIVE EGO TRIP" GHWB diary, March 19, 1992.
"HE NOW WANTS" Ibid.
BUSH BELIEVED PART OF PEROT'S MOTIVATION Author interview with GHWB; Naftali, GHWB, 143.
BUSH BELIEVED THE PUBLIC ROMANCE GHWB diary, March 31, 1992; Ibid., 144.
TO RUN HIS CAMPAIGN, PEROT HIRED Rollins with DeFrank, Bare Knuckles, 23435.
THE ROLLINS NEWS Author interview with Sherrie Rollins Westin.
IN THE PRESIDENT'S STUDY Ibid.
SHE WAS WORRIED Ibid.
THE PRESIDENT WAS UNFAZED Ibid.
"SHERRIE, ED IS MAKING" Ibid.
PEROT HAD A SPECTACULAR SPRING NYT, June 11, 1992.
"OUTRAGEOUSLY ILL-SUITED" GHWB diary, June 20, 1992; Naftali, GHWB, 144.
AFTER TERRIBLE RIOTS IN LOS ANGELES Quayle, Standing Firm, 31719.
DISCUSSED THE HIGH COSTS OF THE BREAKDOWN Ibid., 31729.
QUAYLE WAS WIDELY ATTACKED Ibid., 32023.
A "TOTAL PANIC" Ibid., 321.
THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF...WAS A BIT PUZZLED Ibid.
"WHILE THE LIBERAL COLUMNISTS" GHWB to Vice President Dan Quayle, "Re: I thought you might like to see the attached from my boy, Jeb," n.d., Ronald Kaufman Correspondence/Miscellaneous Memoranda 3 (2), Ron Kaufman Files, White House Office of Political Affairs Bush Presidential Records, GBPL. (OAID 07888-012).
"I BELIEVE WE ARE IN FOR A RUMBLE" Ibid.
"I MUST CONFESS" GHWB diary, May 25, 1992.
"I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT" Ibid., July 10, 1992.
BUSH NOTED THAT GORE'S FAMILY LIFE Ibid.
NEWSWEEK'S PRE-CONVENTION COVER "Young Guns," Newsweek, July 20, 1992.
BUSH WAS ENDURING A SIX-HOUR MEETING GHWB diary, July 14, 1992.
"I'M NOT GETTING" Ibid.
HE NEEDED JIM BAKER Ibid., July 16, 1992; Naftali, GHWB, 14243, 146.
TO ESCAPE THE PRESSURES GHWB diary, July 16, 1992.
"HE'LL DO WHAT I WANT" Ibid.
AT A QUARTER AFTER NINE NYT, July 17, 1992; Naftali, GHWB, 145.
SUMMONING REPORTERS NYT, July 17, 1992.
BUSH REACHED PEROT GHWB diary, July 16, 1992.
THEIR CHAT WAS "CIVIL" Ibid.
ONE OF BUSH'S FIRST CALLS Ibid.
"I WANT TO TALK TO GEORGE" Ibid., July 21, 1992.
"HE'S VERY PISSED OFF" Ibid.
BUSH AND PEROT WERE SUPPOSED TO MEET Ibid., July 23, 1992.
PEROT GREW DIFFICULT Ibid., July 30, 1992.
"OCTOBER SURPRISE" Ibid., July 29, 1992.
AFTER NEW YORK, GALLUP HAD Chicago Tribune, August 5, 1992; Naftali, GHWB, 146.
"I THINK HE" GHWB diary, July 7, 1991.
ON CNN'S LARRY KING LIVE Ibid., July 24, 1992.
"IT'S ALL OVER THE TELEVISION" Ibid.
A LARGELY FAVORABLE Bob Woodward and David S. Broder, The Man Who Would Be President: Dan Quayle (New York, 1992). See, for instance, pages 94, 99102, 17779, 12528.
BUSH'S CONVICTION THAT REMOVING Peter Goldman, Thomas M. DeFrank, Mark Miller, Andrew Murr, and Tom Mathews, Quest for the Presidency, 1992 (College Station, Tex.), 37681. Also see an adaption of the book at www.newsweek.com/gunning-quayle-189348.
"TERRIBLE....HE'S NOT RESONATING" GHWB diary, July 21, 1992.
GEORGE W. BUSH SUGGESTED Author interview with GWB.
JEB CALLED IN FROM FLORIDA GHWB diary, July 23, 1992.
"WHEN YOUR OWN SONS" Ibid., July 25, 1992.
"I WOULDN'T LOOK STRONG" Ibid.
PEGGY NOONAN TOLD BUSH Ibid.
FORMER PRESIDENT FORD TELEPHONED Ibid., July 27, 1992.