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HE WORRIED WHEN Ibid.

COLUMBA FAILED TO DECLARE "Bush Embarrassed by Wife's Run-in with Customs," David Cox and John Kennedy, Sun-Sentinel (Broward County, Fla.), June 22, 1999, http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1999-06-22/news/9906220022_1_columba-bush-jeb-bush-governor-s-wife.

BUT WHAT STRUCK THE OLD MAN MOST Confidential author interviews.

THE "AMAZING" MASTER OF CEREMONIES GHWB to Hugh Sidey, January 9, 2003, Office of George Bush, Private Files. "'P,' as we call him, has an amazing presence," Bush wrote in his letter about the inauguration. "His remarks were scripted and put on the prompter; but the way he did, the way he looked, you felt he was in total command. He is a modest young man, a good student, and wonderful kid in every way. He likes politics. In my view this guy will go a long way if he pursues a political path." (Ibid.) "THEN CAME QUIET, LOVELY, TROUBLED NOELLE LOOKING BEAUTIFUL" Ibid.

HAD RECENTLY BEEN ARRESTED FOR PRESCRIPTION-DRUG FRAUD NYT, January 30, 2002; Ibid., July 18, 2002.

"ALTHOUGH IT IS AN INTENSELY PRIVATE" "Text of Gov. Jeb Bush's Inaugural Address," Associated Press, January 7, 2003, http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/010703/D7ODH7682.html.

"NOW AND FOREVER MY GREATEST HERO" Ibid.

THERE JEB STOOD GHWB to Hugh Sidey, January 9, 2003, Office of George Bush, Private Files.

FRED RYAN, A TRUSTED REAGAN AIDE Author interview with Fred Ryan.

"I WAS SUPPOSED" Ibid.

FROM THE FIRST DRAFT Ibid.

"NANCY WAS VERY STRONG" Ibid.

"ONCE HE CALLED AMERICA" See C-SPAN video of GHWB's eulogy at www.c-span.org/video/?182165-1/ronald-reagan-funeral-service.

HIS VOICE BROKE Ibid.

BUSH PAID TRIBUTE TO NANCY Ibid.

WHEN HE READ OVERNIGHT POLLS ATB, 667.

BUSH WAS ADDICTED Author interview with BPB.

THE SUNDAY BEFORE THE ELECTION ATB, 667.

THE BUSHES TRIED TO RELAX Ibid.

HE BOARDED A JET Ibid., 66768.

WHO EAGERLY AWAITED Ibid., 668.

"DAD, WE WILL CARRY FLORIDA" Ibid.

"BEHIND BY A SMIDGEN" Ibid.

DURING THE TRIP Ibid.

"I FEEL LIKE" Ibid.

ARRIVING AT THE WHITE HOUSE Ibid., 66869.

HIS SON WAS, BY COMPARISON, CALM Ibid., 669.

(SO MUCH SO THAT BOB SHRUM) Shrum, No Excuses, xi.

AS THE HOUR GREW LATE ATB, 669.

BUSH 43 DECIDED Ibid.

FATHER AND SON AWOKE Ibid.

THE ELDER BUSH WAS WILLING Ibid.

CALLED JIM BAKER Author interviews with James A. Baker III and Andrew Card.

BAKER AGREED Author interview with James A. Baker III.

THE ELDER BUSHES WERE SCHEDULED ATB, 67071.

"DAD," BUSH 43 SAID, "DO YOU REALIZE" Ibid., 671.

STANDING THERE WITH HIS REELECTED SON Ibid.

FIFTY: The Buck Stops There HE HAD HIS OWN EMPIRE Author interview with GHWB.

I LOVE GEORGE BUSH "William J. Clinton Acceptance Speech," National Constitution Center, October 5, 2006, http://constitutioncenter.org/libertymedal/recipient_2006_speechb.html.

A TSUNAMI IN SOUTHEAST ASIA ATB, 674.

TO SIGNAL AMERICAN COMPASSION AND UNITY GWB, 41, 27071; Naftali, GHWB, 175.

TO RAISE MONEY FOR RELIEF EFFORTS Ibid. "The years had softened whatever anger remained between George H. W. Bush and the former rival, and following this joint mission the two former presidents became very friendly." (Naftali, GHWB, 175.) CLINTON WON BUSH'S HEART Author interview with GHWB.

(CLINTON SPENT MOST OF THE NIGHT) Ibid. See also ATB, 673.

CLINTON "ALWAYS WAITED" ATB, 67374.

WHEN CLINTON HAD NOT YET TURNED UP Ibid.

BUSH WAS BEMUSED Ibid.

"HE TALKS ALL THE TIME" Author interview with GHWB.

"BILL DID HAVE AN OPINION" ATB, 67475.

BUSH RECEIVED AN EMAIL Ibid., 675.

IN SRI LANKA, THE TWO MEN Ibid., 67778.

IN THE CAR AT LAST Ibid., 678.

BUSH'S RELUCTANCE TO BROADEN Ibid., 684.

BUSH ENJOYED BEING WITH GORBACHEV Author interviews with GHWB and Mikhail Gorbachev.

"GORBACHEV ALWAYS WANTS" ATB, 684.

"I PREFER MAINE OR A&M" Ibid.

QUIETLY DOING A GREAT DEAL OF CHARITY WORK Author interview with Jean Becker.

IN THE AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE KATRINA ATB, 68687; GWB, 41, 271; Naftali, GHWB, 175.

"NOW MY OWN SON" ATB, 687.

A SIGN OF THE DEPTH Ibid., 688.

"IF YOU EVER HAVE" "George H. W. Bush Acceptance Speech," National Constitution Center, October 5, 2006, http://constitutioncenter.org/libertymedal/recipient_2006_speecha.html.

CLINTON WAS FORTHRIGHT "William J. Clinton Acceptance Speech," National Constitution Center, October 5, 2006.

"I DON'T FEEL CLOSE TO HILLARY" Author interview with GHWB.

"WE LIKE HER" Author interview with BPB.

UNLIKE FORMER PRESIDENT CLINTON Author interviews with GHWB and BPB.

"THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR" BPB diary, February 10, 1995.

"THE POLITICS BETWEEN NOW" ATB, 690.

THE SITUATION ON THE GROUND IN IRAQ Peter Baker, Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House (New York, 2013), 49497.

AN IRAQ STUDY GROUP For the report, see James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, "The Iraq Study Group Report," http://bakerinstitute.org/media/files/news/8a41607c/iraqstudygroup_findings.pdf.

"A THUMPING" "Bush Transcript, Part 3: Election Loss a 'Thumping,'" CNN.com, November 8, 2006, www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/08/bush.transcript3/.

FOR DON RUMSFELD TO GO GWB, Decision Points, 9294.

CONSULTED THE ELDER BUSH Author interview with GHWB.

"DO YOU THINK GATES WOULD DO IT" Ibid.

"ONE, I THINK HE'D DO IT" Ibid.

"AT A&M, HE HAD A MARVELOUS WAY" Ibid.

(DURING A TWO-DAY SPAN) Author interview with James A. Baker III. See also GWB, Decision Points, 92.

THE POSSIBILITY WAS BUSH 43's IDEA Author interview with GWB.

BAKER BELIEVED THAT Author interview with James A. Baker III.

"I THINK HE SERVED THE PRESIDENT BADLY" Author interview with GHWB. Rumsfeld declined to comment on Bush 41's remarks. (Author interview with Donald Rumsfeld.) "THE IDEA OF 'DOING IT BETTER'" Author interview with GHWB.

"PROUD MOMENTS" Ibid.

"DIFFERENT WARS, DIFFERENT REASONS" Ibid.

THOSE WHO THOUGHT Ibid.

"OH, I KNOW THAT'S" Ibid.

THERE WERE "PEOPLE THAT CRITICIZE GEORGE" Ibid.

"SO WOULD WE BE BETTER OFF" Ibid.

MIMICKING A CHAGRINED COCKTAIL GUEST Ibid.

"'OH NO'" Ibid.

IN A SERIES OF WIDE-RANGING INTERVIEWS The conversations took place in October 2008; February, April, and June 2009; and January and November 2010. Transcripts of the quoted portions from GHWB were confirmed with him in December 2014. "That's what I said," Bush said. (Ibid.) DESPITE PRIVATE ANXIETIES Confidential author interview.

"I DO WORRY ABOUT SOME OF THE RHETORIC" Author interview with GHWB.

"YOU GO BACK TO THE 'AXIS OF EVIL'" Ibid.

IN HIS 2002 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS George W. Bush, "Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union," January 29, 2002, The American Presidency Project, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29644.

THE USE OF THE PHRASE NYT, February 23, 2002.

"EUROPE SEETHES" Ibid.

"NEOCONSERVATIVES" WHO OFTEN ARGUED See, for instance, Baker, Days of Fire; Mann, Rise of the Vulcans; Jacob Heilbrunn, They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons (New York, 2008).

"AS LONG AS BRINGING DOWN SADDAM" Author interview with GHWB.

"WHAT YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW" Ibid.

PREFERRING A MORE DIPLOMATIC APPROACH Author interviews with GWB, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates, and Steve Hadley. Both GWB and Cheney discussed their second-term differences over some policies in interviews with the author.

PRESSED FOR A MORE VIGOROUS REACTION See, for instance, "Why Bush Won't Attack Iran," Steven Clemons, Salon.com, September 19, 2007, www.salon.com/2007/09/19/iran_2/.

NEOCONSERVATIVE ARGUMENTS ABOUT Ibid.; NYT, June 2, 2007.

CHENEY...WAS A SHREWD WASHINGTON PLAYER Barton Gellman, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency (New York, 2008), 4344, offered this example: Along with his own access to the president, which was substantial, Cheney arranged for his vice presidential chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, to be given the title of assistant to the president, a bureaucratic stroke that put Libby-and thus Cheney-squarely in the West Wing decision-making process. As Gellman reported, "No one save Cheney and Bush themselves were his superiors. Like every assistant to the president, Libby would see and have the right to challenge any speech, legislation, or executive order before it reached the Oval Office." (Ibid.) "VERY MUCH OF ONE ULTRA-HAWKISH MIND" Condoleezza Rice, No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington (New York, 2011), 17. See also Baker, Days of Fire, 8788.

BUSH 41 HAD NO DOUBTS Author interview with GHWB.