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Destiny and Power Part 83

"THE DECIDER" "Bush: 'I'm the decider' on Rumsfeld," April 18, 2006, www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/18/rumsfeld/; NYT, December 24, 2006.

"I THINK GEORGE WOULD SAY" Author interview with GHWB.

"HE HAD HIS OWN EMPIRE" Ibid.

A NATIONAL-SECURITY AIDE TO CHENEY NYT, June 2, 2007. Steve Clemons broke this story.

TO WARN AGAINST "NEW CRAZIES" Ibid.

"WE FULLY BELIEVE" Ibid.

WHICH BUSH 41 READ EVERY DAY Author interview with Jean Becker.

"BUT THERE'S SOME CONCERN" NYT, June 2, 2007.

WITH CONCERN AND PUZZLEMENT Author interview with GHWB.

APPEARED TO BE A CHAMPION Ibid.

ONE OF "'GOOD' VS. 'EVIL'" ATB, 497.

WILLING TO RISK IMPEACHMENT See Chapter 41 above.

"I DON'T KNOW, HE JUST BECAME" Ibid. That Cheney was different than he had been in his days as secretary of defense was an argument that Brent Scowcroft often made. (Jeffrey Goldberg, "Breaking Ranks," The New Yorker, October 31, 2005; Sparrow, The Strategist, 53435.) "THE REACTION TO" Author interview with GHWB.

A KIND OF "DR. STRANGELOVE" Thomas Friedman, "Channeling Dick Cheney," NYT, November 18, 2007.

"VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY IS THE HAWK-EATING" Ibid.

AN AMERICAN AIR STRIKE ON A NORTH KOREANBUILT NUCLEAR REACTOR Baker, Days of Fire, 55153. See also Cheney with Cheney, In My Time, 46573; and GWB, Decision Points, 42022.

"I DON'T KNOW" Author interview with GHWB.

"YOU KNOW, I'VE CONCLUDED THAT LYNNE CHENEY" Ibid.

BUSH ADDED THAT THE CHENEYS' DAUGHTER LIZ...WAS ALSO "TOUGH" Ibid.

"A GOOD MAN" Ibid.

"THE BIG MISTAKE THAT WAS MADE" Ibid. The elder Bush was so convinced he was right about Cheney's outsized influence that he advised President-elect Obama to watch out for vice presidential empire building. There should be no "separate establishment for intelligence and foreign policy," Bush told Obama. "Vice presidents can't do that. You're going to get burned if they do that." (Ibid.) "THE BUCK," BUSH AGREED Ibid.

"FASCINATING," CHENEY MURMURED Author interview with Dick Cheney.

"NO QUESTION I WAS MUCH HARDER-LINE" Ibid.

("I DO DISAGREE") Ibid.

(MRS. CHENEY AND LIZ CHENEY DECLINED) Author interviews with Lynne Cheney and Liz Cheney.

"I'VE NEVER HEARD" Ibid.

"WE WERE DEALING WITH" Ibid.

"HE CERTAINLY NEVER" Author interview with GWB.

"WOULD NEVER SAY TO ME" Ibid.

"IT IS TRUE THAT MY RHETORIC COULD GET PRETTY STRONG" Ibid.

HE REMEMBERED THAT Ibid.

"THEY UNDERSTOOD ME IN MIDLAND" Ibid.

COMMISSIONED THE USS GEORGE H. W. BUSH "USS George H. W. Bush Commissioning," January 10, 2009. CSPAN video www.cspan.org/video/?283260-1/uss-george-hw-bush-commissioning.

A BRIGHT WINTER'S DAY Ibid.

"OVER THE YEARS" Ibid.

TURNING TO THE BUSINESS AT HAND Ibid.

HE LOVED READING EMAIL UPDATES Author interview with Jean Becker.

"THE SHIP IS SO MAJESTIC" Author interview with GHWB.

WORE THAT SAME SPLENDID PURPLE SCARF Author observation.

BOARDED THE PRESIDENTIAL HELICOPTER Author interview with Jean Becker.

"HE'S FINE" Author interview with GHWB.

HE RECALLED AN EXCHANGE Ibid.

"BELIEVE ME" Ibid.

"TRY THIS ONE ON FOR SIZE" Ibid.

IN THE MIDDLE OF A STORM Author interview with Jean Becker.

HE LOOKED AT HER Ibid.

AFTER A LONG WEEKEND OF EVENTS Ibid.

HIS HEALTH WAS GOOD Author interview with Dr. John Eckstein.

DURING A 2012 HOSPITALIZATION Author interview with Jean Becker.

"DID I ALMOST BUY" Ibid.

"I'VE DECIDED TO LIVE TO NINETY" Ibid.

"WHEN THE PRESIDENT COMES" Houston Chronicle, April 9, 2014.

WERE INVITED TO A SAME-SEX WEDDING Author interview with Jean Becker.

"FOUND HIS POPULARITY" Ibid.

"PERSONALLY, I STILL BELIEVE" GHWB note to author, September 8, 2015.

EPILOGUE: I Don't Want to Miss Anything AS GOOD A MEASURE OF A PRESIDENT Author interview with Barack Obama.

ON A RELAXED AFTERNOON Author interview with GHWB.

"I FEEL LIKE" Ibid.

"I AM LOST" Ibid.

"WHAT IF THEY JUST FIND" Ibid.

"HOW GREAT IS THIS COUNTRY" Bush, Spoken from the Heart, 126.

"MY FATHER WAS THE LAST PRESIDENT" George W. Bush, "Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia," August 3, 2000, The American Presidency Project, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25954.

THERE WAS BIPARTISAN CONSENSUS Peter Baker, "Bush 41 Reunion Seeks to Burnish His Legacy," NYT, April 4, 2014. "Frail from a form of Parkinson's disease, Mr. Bush, 89, has benefited from a wave of historical revisionism that has transformed him from the biggest incumbent loser since William Howard Taft to, by at least one measure, the most popular former president of the past half century," wrote Baker, who pointed out that Bush's average Gallup post-presidential approval rating had been 66 percent, "the highest of the eight most recent former presidents." (Ibid.) "HE WAS THE GREAT TORTOISE" Murray Kempton, Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events (New York, 1994), 446. (The Esquire essay is collected in this volume.) I am grateful to Michael Beschloss for pointing me to this review of Kempton's.

WAS NOT "A PURE UNDERTAKING" Author interview with GHWB.

THE TELEPHONE...RANG Author interview with Jean Becker.

"I AM NOT DOING ANY TRAVEL" ATB, 697.

"WE HONOR GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH" "Remarks on Presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom, February 15, 2011," Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Barack Obama, 2011 (Washington, D.C., 2012), 127.

FROM A DECORATED NAVY PILOT Ibid.

"WAS EXACTLY THE GENTLEMAN" Author interview with Barack Obama.

"I WOULD ARGUE" Ibid.

"AS GOOD A MEASURE" Ibid.

IT IS A SERENE SPOT Author observation.

ONCE WHEN HE WAS NEARING NINETY Author interview with Jean Becker.

"I DON'T WANT" Ibid.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Manuscript Collections SIGNIFICANT MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS CONSULTED AT THE GEORGE BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS.

Jean Becker "All the Best, George Bush" File, Post-Presidential Materials, George H. W. Bush Collection FitzGerald Bemiss Collection Jan Burmeister Collection Barbara P. Bush Collection Dorothy W. Bush Collection George Bush Personal and Donated Files Related to Bush and Family, Post-Presidential Materials, George H. W. Bush Collection Daily Files, George H. W. Bush Presidential Records, Office of the President, Houston Office Files, George H. W. Bush Collection 1980 Campaign Files, George H. W. Bush Collection Personal Correspondence Files, Post-Presidential Materials, George H. W. Bush Collection Vice Presidential Daily Files, George H. W. Bush Collection Vice Presidential Files, George H. W. Bush Collection George Bush/Dan Quayle Presidential Campaign 1992 Prescott Bush Materials, Personal Papers, George H. W. Bush Collection Bush Family Scrapbooks James W. Cicconi Collection Vic Gold Collection David Hoffman Collection Dorothy Bush Koch Collection Donald R. (Rob) Quartel Collection Don Rhodes Collection Brent Scowcroft Collection, George H. W. Bush Presidential Records John Maxwell (Jack) Steel Collection Council of Economic Advisers, George H. W. Bush Presidential Records National Security Council, George H. W. Bush Presidential Records Miscellaneous Navy Materials, Post-Presidential Materials, George H. W. Bush Collection Office of the Chief of Staff to the President, George H. W. Bush Presidential Records Office of the Chief of Staff, Office of Vice President Dan Quayle Office of Counsel to the President, George H. W. Bush Presidential Records Office of Legislative Affairs, George H. W. Bush Presidential Records Republican National Committee, Personal Papers, George H. W. Bush Collection White House Office of Political Affairs, George H. W. Bush Presidential Records White House Office of Records Management, George H. W. Bush Presidential Records White House Office of Speechwriting, George H. W. Bush Presidential Records World War II Correspondence, Personal Papers, George H. W. Bush Collection Zapata Oil File, Personal Papers, George H. W. Bush Collection OTHER MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS.

Papers of Howard Baker, Jr., Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, Calif.

Papers of James A. Baker III, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.

Papers of James A. Baker III, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, Calif.

Papers of Patrick Buchanan, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, Calif.

Papers of Philip W. Buchen, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum, Ann Arbor, Mich.

George H. W. Bush Oral History Project, Miller Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, College Station, Tex.

George H. W. Bush Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

Correspondence of George H. W. Bush and Hugh Sidey, Office of George Bush, Private Files George Bush, Class of 1942, Vertical Subject Files, Archives and Special Collections, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

Prescott S. Bush Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries, Storrs, Conn.

Samuel P. Bush Papers (VFM 2954), Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio Papers of James M. Cannon, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, Atlanta, Ga.

Papers of Richard B. Cheney, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Church of the Ascension Archives, Staten Island, N.Y.

Papers of Richard G. Darman, Private Collection Papers of Kenneth Duberstein, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, Calif.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Abilene, Kan.

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum, Ann Arbor, Mich.

President Gerald R. Ford's Daily Diary, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Grace Cathedral Archives, San Francisco Papers of Alexander Haig, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum, Ann Arbor, Mich.