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Perot's decision to run for president in 1992 did, however, undoubtedly impact the voter impression of the Bush administration. (Jeffrey Koch, "The Perot Candidacy and Attitudes toward Government and Politics," Political Research Quarterly, 51 no. 1 [March, 1998], 14153.) In the end, Perot's exact effect on the race is impossible to measure conclusively, because Perot may have shaped "the election by reframing the choice between Clinton and Bush or by changing the issues of emphasis in the campaign" (Lacy and Burden, "The Vote-Stealing and Turnout Effects of Ross Perot," 234).

"AT FIRST I HAD A FEELING" GHWB diary, November 4, 1992.

"TO GET VERY ACTIVE" NYT, November 4, 1992.

HE RETURNED TO ANDREWS Author interview with Marvin Bush.

"I LET EVERYBODY DOWN" Ibid.

ARRIVAL AT THE WHITE HOUSE GHWB diary, November 5, 1992.

ONE YOUNG SOLDIER Ibid.

"IT'S ALMOST LIKE LIVING WITH" Ibid., November 6, 1992.

"THE OVERSEAS CABLES ARE WONDERFUL" Ibid., November 8, 1992.

BUSH REMEMBERED THE PAIN THE MOST Author interview with GHWB.

"GOD, IT WAS GHASTLY" Ibid.

FORTY-SIX: The Closing of an Era YOU RAN THE WORST CAMPAIGN GHWB diary, November 30, 1992; ATB, 578.

"RANGER [IS] PERKY" GHWB diary, November 5, 1992.

THE RIGHT WAS CRUDE Ibid., November 6, 1992.

"THAT SAME RESTLESS WONDERFUL WIFE" Ibid.

"THE L-WORD" Author interview with GHWB.

A DINNER WITH THE SENATE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS GHWB diary, November 10, 1992; ATB, 574.

BUSH SAT NEXT TO REPUBLICAN SENATOR ALAN SIMPSON'S WIFE GHWB diary, November 10, 1992.

"THAT I HAD LET PEOPLE DOWN" Ibid.

RETURNING TO THE WHITE HOUSE Ibid.

HE REMEMBERED THAT Ibid; Naftali, GHWB, 15051.

WOULD "LOOK LIKE" GHWB diary, November 10, 1992.

REACHING THE WEST WING Ibid.

BILL CLINTON CALLED Ibid., November 18, 1992.

"HE'S VERY FRIENDLY" Ibid.

BUSH GAVE HIS SUCCESSOR Ibid.

"WOW" Ibid.

AS THEY PARTED Ibid. See also ATB, 576.

CLINTON WAS APPRECIATIVE GHWB diary, November 18, 1992.

("SPECULATION ON HILLARY") Ibid.

HE HAD HAD ONLY ONE REQUEST Author interview with Bill Clinton.

NEARLY FOUR YEARS BEFORE Author interview with Gregg Petersmeyer.

THE ONLY STRUCTURAL CHANGE HE MADE Ibid.

"ANY DEFINITION" Ibid.

"BY CO-OPTING A PIECE" Ibid.

THE POINTS OF LIGHT INITIATIVE Ibid.

"THERE ARE NO MAGIC SOLUTIONS" Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George Bush, 1992, 2158.

NANCY ELLIS TELEPHONED HER BROTHER GHWB diary, November 18, 1992. For Mrs. Bush's death, see also LSY, 5078.

HE AND BARBARA GOT ON GHWB diary, November 18, 1992.

BUSH CONSIDERED FLYING Ibid.

"I MIGHT NOT HAVE A CHANCE" Ibid.

HE WOKE EARLY Ibid., November 19, 1992.

BARBARA HAD TO REMAIN NYT, November 20, 1992.

THEY FLEW ON AN AIR FORCE JET Ibid.

MRS. BUSH WAS BREATHING WITH DIFFICULTY GHWB diary, November 19, 1992; ATB, 576.

HE HELD HER HAND GHWB diary, November 19, 1992.

AFTER A FEW HOURS Ibid.

"I DON'T KNOW IF MUM KNOWS" Ibid.

IN THE LATE AFTERNOON Ibid.

"YOUR MUM HAS DIED" Ibid.

NANCY ELLIS BELIEVED Ibid.

"MRS. BUSH SR. WAS" Ibid.

THE CALLS STARTED COMING INTO Ibid.

HER FUNERAL WAS HELD NYT, November 24, 1992.

PRESCOTT JR. READ A LETTER Ibid.

MRS. BUSH'S ASHES Ibid.

INCLUDING QUESTIONS ABOUT A SEARCH See Robert Pear, "Many Questions Linger Following State Department Inquiry," NYT, November 20, 1992; "Continue the Passport Probe," WP, November 22, 1992; Bob Woodward, Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate (New York, 1999), 19899, 2078, 21013.

A BUSH POLITICAL APPOINTEE Clinton, My Life, 432.

"CHASING DOWN BOGUS RUMORS" Ibid.

NEWSWEEK HAD BROKEN Woodward, Shadow, 19899.

AN EMBARRASSED-AND EXHAUSTED-JIM BAKER GHWB diary, November 20, 1992. See also Baker with Fiffer, Work Hard, 329.

IT WAS "ABSURD" GHWB diary, November 20, 1992.

A "McCARTHYITE ABUSE OF POWER" Clinton, My Life, 433.

BUT THE FBI FOUND Ibid., 43233.

A THREE-YEAR INVESTIGATION NYT, December 1, 1995; WP, December 1, 1995; LAT, December 1, 1995.

"SHOULD NEVER HAVE" Associated Press, December 1, 1995.

"IT WAS JUST ALL PART OF THE DEAL" Author interview with Bill Clinton.

BITTERSWEET ECONOMIC NEWS GHWB diary, November 25, 1992.

"THIS ONE THEY CAN'T" Ibid.

"I HAVEN'T FELT LIKE DICTATING" Ibid., November 29, 1992.

WHEN HE WAS IN MAINE Ibid.

HE HAD A FAREWELL LUNCH Ibid., November 30, 1992.

"YOU RAN THE WORST" Ibid.

SOMALIA, ON THE HORN OF AFRICA Ibid.

"THOUSANDS OF INNOCENTS" "The People of Somalia...the Children...Need Our Help,'" WP, December 5, 1992.

"THERE IS A FEELING" GHWB diary, November 30, 1992.

"I UNDERSTAND THE UNITED STATES" WP, December 5, 1992.

"I EVEN TOY" GHWB diary, December 8, 1992.

HEADING INTO THE HOLIDAYS Ibid., December 9, 1992.

"THE KEY RHYTHMS" Author interview with Dana Carvey.

WOULD SEND THE PRESIDENT Author interview with Sig Rogich.

AFTER THE LOSS TO CLINTON Author interview with Dana Carvey.

DID "A PRETTY GOOD JAMES CAGNEY" Ibid.

WITH THE WORK ON THE START II TREATY GHWB diary, December 23, 1992.

IN SEPTEMBER 1992 Author interview with Patricia Presock. An account of the story of the emergence of the diary is also told in Walsh, Iran-Contra: The Final Report, 47480. Differing details in my account are based on my interviews with Presock.

"BOYDEN SEEMED TO THINK" Author interview with Patricia Presock.

GRAY MAINTAINED THAT HE HAD NOT KNOWN Author interview with Boyden Gray. Asked about the call from his office in which one of the lawyers who worked for him had said "Boyden seems to think there is a diary," Gray recalled that he may have believed there were annotated calendars but was unaware of dictated diaries. (Ibid.) "IT WAS A VERY" Ibid. "The Independent Counsel had suspended production of similar sensitive material until after the election," Gray recalled. "And it did not seem unreasonable to include the diaries with the production of the other material after the election." (Ibid.) HE RECOMMENDED Ibid.

ONCE THEY WERE HANDED OVER Walsh, Iran-Contra: The Final Report, 474.

"TO COVER MY OWN ASS" GHWB diary, December 21, 1992.

IN A MEMO TO THE PRESIDENT Ibid., December 22, 1992.

THE FAMILY WAS IN FAVOR Ibid.

BUSH ISSUED THE PARDONS NYT, December 25, 1992; ATB, 583; Naftali, GHWB, 15354; LSY, 50910.

THE ANNUAL HUNTING TRIP GHWB diary, December 29, 1992.

("I SLEPT WELL") Ibid.

"THE CLOSING OF AN ERA" Ibid., January 3, 1993.

NANCY UNNECESSARILY COMPLICATED THINGS GHWB diary, January 13, 1993.

"FRIEND AND MENTOR" "Remarks on Presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to President Ronald Reagan," January 13, 1993, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George Bush, 1993, 2243.

"THAT WAS A TENSE CEREMONY" GHWB diary, January 13, 1993.