JIM BAKER FAVORED Goldman, DeFrank, Miller, Murr, and Mathews, Quest for the Presidency, 1992, 37681.
THERE WAS ONE DREAM SCENARIO Ibid., 37779.
A COLIN POWELL VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION Ted Van Dyk, "Will Powell Run with Bush in '92?," NYT, September 6, 1990.
THE PROBLEM WAS THAT BUSH Goldman et al., Quest for the Presidency, 1992, 381.
BEFORE THE SUMMER Author interview with William Kristol.
"WHAT I HOPE" Ibid.
PROMISED NOT TO "MOBILIZE" Ibid.
THE QUAYLE OPERATION SHREWDLY GHWB diary, July 25, 1992. See also Michael Wines, "Quayle Says He Will Remain on Ticket," NYT, July 26, 1992.
"THE BOTTOM LINE ON QUAYLE" GHWB diary, July 27, 1992.
NOW, AFTER AN EARLY-MORNING JOG GHWB diary, July 24, 1992. See also Fitzwater, Call the Briefing!, 29395, for an account of this episode.
"FELT SLIGHTLY DIZZY" GHWB diary, July 24, 1992.
"I COULD TELL" Ibid.
HAD RECENTLY ADJUSTED Author interview with Dr. Burton Lee.
BUSH SNAPPED Fitzwater, Call the Briefing!, 293. "Shut up and sit down," Bush had shouted, Fitzwater recalled. (Ibid.) GHWB diary, July 24, 1992, describes the same events. After the speech, Dr. Lee told Fitzwater: "I don't think he feels well. He had a fibrillation this morning." (Fitzwater, Call the Briefing!, 293.) "DRENCHED WITH SWEAT" GHWB diary, July 24, 1992. See also Fitzwater, Call the Briefing!, 294.
"I GOT TO THINKING" GHWB diary, July 25, 1992.
"IN ANY EVENT" Ibid.
HIS HEARTBEAT HAD RETURNED Ibid.
"IF BUSH HAD ENDED UP" Author interview with Dr. Burton Lee.
THERE WAS TALK GHWB diary, August 13, 1992; Naftali, GHWB, 146.
BUSH ARRIVED IN HOUSTON GHWB diary, August 17, 1992.
AT A WELCOMING RALLY Ibid., August 18, 1992; Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George Bush, 1992, 1370.
"THE PRESIDENCY IS SERIOUS BUSINESS" WP, August 18, 1992.
"A LITTLE TENSE" GHWB diary, August 18, 1992.
THERE WAS A TROUBLING MOMENT Ibid.
"WAS FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT" Ibid.
"FRIENDS, THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT" www.c-span.org/video/?31255-1/republican-national-convention-address.
BUSH CALLED BUCHANAN Interview of Pat Buchanan by Doro Bush Koch, "My Father, My President" Files, Dorothy Bush Koch Collection, GBPL (OAID 24959).
"PAT BUCHANAN LAID IT" GHWB diary, August 18, 1992.
"MY OPPONENTS SAY" "Remarks Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Republican National Convention," August 20, 1992, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George Bush, 1992, 138086.
"I JUST WISH" GHWB diary, August 22, 1992.
HE WAS CRITICIZED Author interview with Andrew Card; Edmund L. Andrews, "Hurricane Andrew; Bush Sending Army to Florida Amid Criticism of Relief Effort," NYT, August 28, 1992; Naftali, GHWB, 14748.
"HE SAID I LOOKED TIRED" GHWB diary, September 3, 1992.
"ONE LITTLE SIGN" Ibid.
READING HIS CAMPAIGN'S POLLING Ibid.; Naftali, GHWB, 145.
"DISCOURAGING AS HELL" GHWB diary, September 3, 1992.
A BEAUTIFUL LATE SUMMER DAY Ibid.
"I GUESS I'D HAVE TO SAY" Ibid.
"I'VE GOT A SLIGHT CONFESSION" Ibid.
"FOCUSED ON ECONOMIC WEAKNESS AND SHORTCOMINGS" Everett Carll Ladd, "The 1992 Vote for President Clinton: Another Brittle Mandate?" Political Science Quarterly 108, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 20.
"THOUGH [A] RECOVERY WAS" Ibid., 2021.
BUSH CAMPAIGN ADVISER MARY MATALIN Mary Matalin to "Bush-Quayle/GOP Leadership," "Subject: Media Bashing," September 1, 1992, Credenza, Bush/Quayle Presidential Campaign, 1992, GBPL (OAID 23000). The Post piece was Howard Kurtz, "Republicans and Some Journalists Say Media Tend to Boost Clinton, Bash Bush," WP, September 1, 1992.
"WE ARE NOT PARANOID WHINERS" Mary Matalin to "Bush-Quayle/GOP Leadership," "Subject: Media Bashing," September 1, 1992, Credenza, Bush/Quayle Presidential Campaign, 1992, GBPL (OAID 23000). (Emphasis in original.) "I'M TIRED OF THE GUY" GHWB diary, September 9, 1992.
"WHAT CHANGES IN THE WORLD" Ibid., September 17, 1992.
FORTY-FIVE: God, It Was Ghastly HOW CAN YOU HELP US "Presidential Debate in Richmond, Virginia," October 15, 1992, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George Bush, 1992, 1834.
THE CALL WAS UNEXPECTED GHWB diary, September 11, 1992.
BAKER INVITED PEROT Author interview with James A. Baker III.
FOR TWO HOURS GHWB diary, September 11, 1992.
PEROT LECTURED BAKER Ibid.
PEROT THEORIZED THAT A DALLAS BUSINESSMAN Ibid.
"I SEE NO REASON" Ibid.
BY THE TIME BAKER HAD RETURNED Ibid.
PEROT COULD HELP HIMSELF NO LONGER NYT, October 2, 1992; Naftali, GHWB, 148; Wicker, GHWB, 19699.
THE ONLY CONSTANT www.gallup.com/poll/154559/us-presidential-election-center.aspx.
IN AN INTERVIEW WITH CNN'S LARRY KING Andrew Rosenthal, "Bush Questions Clinton's Account of Vietnam-Era Protests and Trip," NYT, October 8, 1992.
"I BIT THE BULLET" "Remarks Accepting the Presidential Nomination," August 20, 1992, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George Bush, 1992, 1381; Clinton, My Life, 427.
IN THEIR FIRST DEBATE "Presidential Debate in St. Louis," October 11, 1992, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George Bush, 1992, 1786808. See also Wicker, GHWB, 199204, for the debates.
"A DUD" GHWB diary, October 12, 1992.
IN RICHMOND AT A TOWN HALLSTYLE DEBATE "Presidential Debate in Richmond, Virginia, October 15, 1992, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George Bush, 1992, 182144. See also C-SPAN video of the second debate at http://www.c-span.org/video/?331371/presidential-candidates-debate.
GLANCING AT THE WATCH Ibid., and "Clinton vs. Bush in 1992 Debate," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ffbFvKlWqE.
"WELL, I THINK" Ibid.
SIMPSON INVITED CLINTON Ibid.
"I'M GOING NEGATIVE" GHWB diary, October 16, 1992.
"THE DEBATES SEEM" Ibid., October 21, 1992.
PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE ACCOUNT Ibid.
"WHAT HAPPENS IF" Ibid.
BECAUSE OF RUMORS Paul Richter and Sara Fritz, "Perot Charges Plot Forced Him Out," LAT, October 26, 1992; Richard L. Berke, "Perot Says He Quit in July to Thwart G.O.P. 'Dirty Tricks,'" NYT, October 26, 1992. See also Michael Isikoff, "Aides Struggle to Push Perot on Charges of GOP Tricks Off Center Stage," WP, October 27, 1992; Kevin Sack, "Perot Aides Try to End Story but President Keeps It Alive," NYT, October 28, 1992; Gerald Posner, Citizen Perot: His Life and Times (New York, 1996), 29596, 31112.
"I COULD NOT ALLOW" Richter and Fritz, "Perot Charges Plot Forced Him Out," LAT, October 26, 1992.
A WIRETAPPING PLOT Ibid.
"LOONY" Berke, "Perot Says He Quit in July to Thwart G.O.P. 'Dirty Tricks,'" NYT, October 26, 1992.
THE ALLEGATIONS WERE "CRAZY" Associated Press, October 27, 1992.
IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE RACE Author interview with James A. Baker III.
INDICTING FORMER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CASPAR WEINBERGER GHWB diary, October 30 and 31, 1992; Walsh, Iran-Contra: The Final Report, 40542; Naftali, GHWB, 14849; Wicker, GHWB, 2078.
"WORRIED AND PANICKED" GHWB diary, October 30, 1992.
"THE NATIONAL PRESS" Ibid., October 31, 1992.
SADDAM WAS GOING TO HOLD Ibid., November 1, 1992.
HE HIMSELF "WOULD VOTE FOR BILL CLINTON" Ibid.
(BAKER, BUSH DICTATED, "COMES IN") Ibid.
BUSH'S FRENZIED, LOOPY ATTACKS Greene, Presidency of George Bush, 177.
SO TIRED THAT HE COULDN'T SLEEP GHWB diary, November 2, 1992.
DAVID MCCULLOUGH'S BIOGRAPHY OF HARRY TRUMAN Ibid.
ONLY MARY MATALIN WAS CHEERFUL Ibid.
GEORGE W. JOINED THE PLANE Ibid.
ARRIVING IN AKRON Ibid.
BETWEEN STOPS BUSH TRIED TO NAP Ibid.
AT LAST HE RETURNED HOME Ibid.
THERE WAS A FINAL RALLY Ibid.
"ROCKING AND ROLLING" Ibid.
IT WAS NEARLY TEN P.M. "Remarks at a Rally in Houston, Texas," November 2, 1992, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George Bush, 1992, 214850.
"YOU KNOW, I WILL READILY CONTEND" Ibid., 2150.
THE BUSHES WERE DRIVEN GHWB diary, November 2, 1992.
"I WORRY SO" Ibid.
HE SLEPT TERRIBLY Ibid., November 3, 1992.
AFTER HIS RUN Ibid.
"IT LOOKS LIKE A BLOWOUT" Ibid.
BUSH BELIEVED SO Author interview with GHWB. See also Everett Carll Ladd, "The 1992 Vote for President Clinton: Another Brittle Mandate?" Political Science Quarterly 108, no. 1 (Spring 1993), 128.
EXIT POLLING, HOWEVER, FOUND Ibid., 2425. See also Wicker, GHWB, 2089.
CLINTON HIMSELF LONG REMEMBERED Author interview with Bill Clinton.
WHILE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW Political scientists generally believe that Ross Perot did not cost Bush the 1992 election. See, for example, R. Michael Alvarez and Jonathan Nagler, "Economics, Issues and the Perot Candidacy: Voter Choice in the 1992 Presidential Election," American Journal of Political Science, 39 no. 3 (August, 1995), 71444; Dean Lacy and Barry Burden, "The Vote-Stealing and Turnout Effects of Ross Perot in the 1992 U.S. Presidential Election," American Journal of Political Science, 43 no. 1 (January, 1999), 23355; Paul Abramson, John Aldrich, Phil Paolino, and David Rhode, "Third-Party and Independent Candidates in American Politics: Wallace, Anderson, and Perot," Political Science Quarterly, 110 no. 3 (Autumn, 1995), 34967.