REAGAN, HOWEVER, RECIPROCATED C-SPAN video of ceremony at www.c-span.org/video/?37025-1/presentation-presidential-medal-freedom.
"HE SEEMED MUCH OLDER" GHWB diary, January 13, 1993.
THROUGHOUT THE CEREMONY Ibid.
APPARENT MISSILE SITES Ibid., January 11, 1993.
"[SADDAM IS] PUSHING" Ibid.
GEORGE STRAIT AND BRIAN MULRONEY BPB diary, January 1993.
(AS WERE WARREN CHRISTOPHER AND VERNON JORDAN) LSY, 510.
BUSH WAS DOING GHWB Diary, January 15, 1993.
STRAIT SANG BPB diary, January 1993.
ON THEIR FINAL NIGHT Ibid., January 1993.
IT WAS A COLD, CLEAR, BLUE MORNING GHWB diary, January 20, 1993.
"THERE WAS AN UNREAL FEELING" Ibid.
SCOWCROFT AND THE CIA MEN LEFT Ibid.
SOMEONE HAD MENTIONED THE POLLS Ibid.
"AS I TOLD BILL CLINTON" Ibid.
I'VE TRIED TO KEEP IT Ibid.
HE THOUGHT OF BARBARA Ibid.
THEY HAD BEEN JOKING Ibid.
"THIS," HE SAID ALOUD Ibid;, ATB, 584.
"WHO GIVES" GHWB diary, January 24, 1993.
Part VII: In the Twilight, 1993 to 2016 WHEN YOU'VE MADE THE BIG CALLS Author interview with GHWB.
FORTY-SEVEN: I'd Like to See Old George Bush I SUGGEST THAT GHWB to George W. Bush, July 16, 1977, Looking Forward and Miscellaneous Files, VIC.
CHART YOUR OWN COURSE ATB, 61516.
HUGH LIEDTKE, BUSH'S OLD TEXAS BPB diary, January 29, 1993.
WHEN BUSH, WHO WANTED Ibid.
"HAVE WE MET BEFORE?" Ibid.
"HE IS NOT BITTER" Ibid., February 19, 1993.
"HE WAS DEPRESSED" Author interview with Jonathan Bush.
WHEN GEORGE W. CAME OVER Barbara Bush, Reflections: Life After the White House (New York, 2003), 6.
THE RESULT WAS AN UNDERCOOKED DINNER Ibid.
THE FORMER PRESIDENT, ALWAYS CONSCIOUS OF HIS WEIGHT Ibid.
INHALED THE DAILY CIA BRIEFINGS Author interview with Jean Becker.
"I'LL SPEND TIME" ATB, 564.
TO A REMARKABLE DEGREE Author interviews with GHWB, BPB, and Jean Becker.
THE FLOW OF GUESTS Ibid.
THERE WAS AN ANNUAL CRUISE Ibid.
QUAIL HUNTING Ibid.
PILGRIMAGES TO BOHEMIAN GROVE Ibid.
HE READ FICTION AND NONFICTION BPB diary.
"DON'T WANT PEOPLE" Author interview with Jean Becker.
A 1993 ENGAGEMENT "Talk's Not Cheap: Bush Reportedly Getting $100,000," LAT, September 4, 1993.
A SENIOR ADVISER FOR THE CARLYLE GROUP Author interview with David Rubenstein.
BUSH'S ROLE WAS Ibid.
AS COMPENSATION, HE ASKED Ibid.
"I TAKE NO JOY" GHWB to JAB III, June 9, 1993, box 288, James A. Baker III Papers, Princeton.
IN APRIL, THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAD LED NYT, April 15, 1993; Naftali, GHWB, 15657.
A "HERO'S WELCOME" NYT, April 15, 1993.
A 175-POUND CAR BOMB WP, June 27, 1993.
MORE THAN A DOZEN Clinton, My Life, 52526.
THE FBI AND THE CIA INVESTIGATED Ibid.; WP, June 27, 1993; Gibbs and Duffy, Presidents Club, 42124.
"IT WAS A BIG BOMB" Author interview with Bill Clinton.
"THIS GUY JUST TRIED" Ibid.
"MR. PRESIDENT, THE QUESTION IS" Author interview with Colin Powell.
"I REALLY WANTED" Author interview with Bill Clinton.
"IT WAS AN ELABORATE PLAN" NYT, June 27, 1993.
KEPT BRENT SCOWCROFT INFORMED Ibid.
CLINTON CALLED BUSH Ibid.
"WE COMPLETED OUR INVESTIGATION" Gibbs and Duffy, Presidents Club, 423.
BUSH WAS RESERVED George Stephanopoulos, All Too Human: A Political Education (Boston, 1999), 16263.
"CLINTON CLOSED THE CONVERSATION" Ibid.
"I THINK HE THINKS" Ibid., 163.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER TRAVELED TO MAINE WP, June 27, 1993.
THE MISSILE STRIKE TOOK OUT Gibbs and Duffy, Presidents Club, 42324.
"I'M NOT IN THE INTERVIEW BUSINESS" WP, June 27, 1993.
"GLAD IT FAILED" Author interview with GHWB.
IN SEPTEMBER 1993, BUSH RETURNED BPB diary, September 1993; Naftali, GHWB, 155. See also Clinton, My Life, 54147.
"JUST NOT READY TO GO BACK" BPB diary, September 1993.
BUSH SPENT THE NIGHT NYT, September 15, 1993.
"YOU KNOW HE'S ALWAYS" Ibid.
"I WOULDN'T SAY IT WAS AWKWARD" Ibid.
MADE THE CASE FOR NAFTA Ibid.; Naftali, GHWB, 155.
BUSH TOLD THE AUDIENCE BPB diary, September 1993.
A "WITTILY GENEROUS" THING Clinton, My Life, 546.
HE WAS TAKING QUESTIONS ATB, 598; Naftali, GHWB, 16263.
"PULLED THE RIP CORD" ATB, 598.
"FOR SOME REASON" Ibid.
"WHY HAS THIS NOW BECOME AN OBSESSION?" Ibid., 600.
THINKING ABOUT CHICHI-JIMA ON "THAT DREADFUL DAY" Ibid.
WHEN HE INFORMED THE CHILDREN Ibid., 601.
"YOU MUST BE KIDDING" Ibid.
THE DAY IN THE ARIZONA DESERT Ibid., 6002.
"REVELING IN THE FREEDOM" Ibid., 602.
IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE APRIL 1995 BOMBING Ibid., 59192.
BUSH WAS FURIOUS Ibid. See also Naftali, GHWB, 15960.
"YOUR BROADSIDE AGAINST FEDERAL AGENTS" ATB, 59192.
PERHAPS AN INEVITABLE TENSION Ibid., 594.
TO PARENTS-FRIENDS OF MARVIN'S-WHO HAD LOST A YOUNG SON Ibid., 59293.
I EXPECT YOU ARE NOW SAYING Ibid., 592.
"I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU FEEL" Ibid., 593.
"YOUR FATHER WILL BE AN ISSUE" GHWB to George W. Bush, July 16, 1977, Looking Forward and Miscellaneous Files, VIC.
"HE DID NOT ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE ME AT ALL" PSB, COHC, 4.
YOUR MOTHER TELLS ME ATB, 61516.
"GEORGE...YOU CAN'T WIN" GWB, Decision Points, 53.
JEB WOULD FACE ATB, 593.
"DO IT WITH ALL YOU'VE GOT" GHWB to George W. Bush, July 16, 1977, Looking Forward and Miscellaneous Files, VIC.
FORTY-EIGHT: The Proudest Father in the Whole Wide World IF I WERE "THE ONE" Author interview with Jeb Bush.
HE DOESN'T NEED Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight (New York, 2010), 135.
CHASE UNTERMEYER...MUSED Chase Untermeyer 1992 diary provided to author.
"CUTUP IN THE BUSH FAMILY" Baker with Fiffer, Work Hard, 355.
"IF I WERE 'THE ONE'" Author interview with Jeb Bush.