Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America (120 page)

55.
Associated Press, June 27, 1977;Walter R. Mears, Associated Press, June 13, 1977.

56.
Don McLeod, Associated Press, June 10, 1977; Joseph B. Treaster, “Reagan Is Critical of Carter on Rights,”
New York Times
, June 10, 1977, 5.

57.
Washington Star
, “Much Ado about Panama,” May 2, 1976.

58.
Eric Pace, “Reagan Declares Canal Treaties Should Be Rejected by the Senate,”
New York Times
, August 26, 1977, A1.

59.
Reagan,
Reagan, In His Own Hand
, 201.

60.
United Press International, “Ford Gives Support to New Agreement on Panama Canal,”
New York Times
, August 17, 1977, A1.

61.
“Panama; A Doomed Treaty?”
U. S. News & World Report
, September 19, 1977, 18.

62.
Tom Raum, Associated Press, September 8, 1977.

63.
Walter R. Mears, Associated Press, November 4, 1977.

64.
Charles Black, in discussion with the author, January 16, 2007.

65.
Associated Press, December 20, 1977.

66.
Ibid.

67.
United Press International, “Reagan Protests Party Fund Drive,”
New York Times
, December 21, 1977, A14.

68.
Ibid.

69.
Albert R. Hunt, “Reagan: ‘A Man, a Plan, a Canal…,’”
Wall Street Journal
, August 26, 1977, 8.

70.
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “Reagan in '80?”
Washington Post
, January 16, 1978, A21.

71.
James R. Dickenson, “Reagan's Man Sears Is Ready to Roll,”
Washington Star
, February 26, 1979, D1.

C
HAPTER
2: R
ETURN OF THE
R
EPUBLICANS

1.
Terence Smith, “Carter, in TV Talk, Asks Canal Backing,”
New York Times
, February 2, 1978, A1.

2.
Ibid.

3.
Donald M. Rothberg, Associated Press, February 8, 1978.

4.
Robert G. Kaiser, “Senate Votes First Canal Treaty, 68–32,”
Washington Post
, March 17, 1978, A1.

5.
Donald M. Rothberg, Associated Press, April 18, 1978.

6.
Associated Press, April 18, 1978.

7.
Associated Press, May 24, 1978.

8.
Albert R. Hunt, “Carter and the '78 Elections,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 27, 1977, 8.

9.
“Generals of a Rebellion by California Taxpayers: Howard Arnold Jarvis and Paul Gann,”
New York Times
, June 8, 1978, A25.

10.
Wallace Turner, “Brown, in Shift, Now Sees Opportunities in Tax Cut,”
New York Times
, June 8, 1978, A25.

11.
Doug Willis, Associated Press, June 7, 1978.

12.
“Generals of a Rebellion by California Taxpayers.”

13.
Susanna McBee, “Prop 13 Spawns Tax-Curb Votes on 16 State Ballots,”
Washington Post
, November 1, 1978, A4.

14.
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “A New Tax-Cut Theology for the GOP,”
Washington Post
, June 8, 1978, A23.

15.
Arthur Laffer, in discussion with the author, January 18, 2007.

16.
Ibid.

17.
Ann Crittenden, “The Economic Wind's Blowing Toward the Right—for Now,
New York Times
, July 16, 1978, F1.

18.
Jeb Bush, in discussion with the author, August 22, 2006.

19.
U. S. News & World Report
, June 13, 1977, 16.

20.
“Tax-Cut Plan Gives GOP a New Issue and a New Face,”
Wall Street Journal
, September 19, 1978, 1.

21.
Bill Peterson, “Rep. Crane Informs Reagan of Plans for '80 Presidential Bid,”
Washington Post
, July 27, 1978, A3.

22.
Richard Pyle, Associated Press, July 28, 1978.

23.
Adam Clymer, “Rep. Crane Weighs Race for President,”
New York Times
, July 20, 1978, A17.

24.
John W. Mastheck, Thomas J. Foley, and Jack McWethy, “'80 Sweepstakes: At Starting Gate,”
U.S
.
News & World Report
, June 4, 1979, 28.

25.
Michael K. Deaver with Mickey Herskowitz,
Behind the Scenes: In Which the Author Talks About Ronald and Nancy Reagan… and Himself
(New York: William Morrow, 1987), 75.

26.
Frank Donatelli, in discussion with the author, July 26, 2006.

27.
PostScript,
Washington Post
, August 28, 1978, A3.

28.
Ronald Reagan,
Reagan: A Life in Letters
, ed. Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson (New York: Free Press, 2003), 116.

29.
Peter Hannaford,
The Reagans: A Political Portrait
(New York: Coward-McCann, 1983), 175.

30.
John Milne, “‘New Right’ Exclusion Cost Sears,”
Miami Herald
, March 2, 1980, 23A.

31.
Lou Cannon, “Reagan Described as Ready to Campaign Hard and Early for the Presidency,”
Washington Post
, August 13, 1978, A3.

32.
Ibid.

33.
Walter R. Mears, Associated Press, October 16, 1978.

34.
George Gallup, “Kennedy Gains as Top 1980 Choice,”
Washington Post
, August 13, 1978, A15.

35.
Associated Press, October 6, 1978.

36.
Victor F. Zonana, “California Is Roiled by a New Initiative, Over Homosexuals,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 10, 1978, 1.

37.
Ed Meese, in discussion with the author.

38.
Lyn Nofziger, in discussion with the author.

39.
“After Elections—Challenges for Carter and Congress,”
U. S. News & World Report
, November 20, 1978, 20.

40.
“Looking Ahead to 1980 Elections,”
U. S. News & World Report
, April 16, 1979, 37.

41.
Nancy Reagan with William Novak,
My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan
(New York: Random House, 1989), 189.

42.
Deaver with Herskowitz,
Behind the Scenes
, 85.

43.
“Going Far by Going Slow,”
Time
, January 21, 1980, 32.

44.
Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover, “Retooling Ronald Reagan,”
Washington Star
, August 15, 1979, A11

45.
Jeffrey Bell, in discussion with the author.

46.
Germond and Witcover, “Retooling Ronald Reagan.”

47.
Hannaford,
The Reagans
, 177–81.

48.
James Reston, “When Old Men Dream,”
New York Times
, January 26, 1979, A25.

49.
Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover, “Connally Hits N.H. First Time Pouring Out Political Confidence,”
Washington Star
, March 22, 1979, A4.

50.
David Keene, in discussion with the author.

51.
Ibid.

52.
David Keene, in discussion with the author, October 10, 2006.

53.
Ibid.

54.
David Keene, in discussion with the author, March 17, 2006.

55.
“Dole Files with Election Panel,”
New York Times
, February 22, 1979, A20.

56.
Douglas E. Kneeland, “Republican Hopefuls Tread the Carter Path to Iowa,”
New York Times
, March 4, 1979, E4.

57.
Bill Peterson, “Reagan for President Committee Is Formed, but He Hasn't Announced Candidacy—Yet,”
Washington Post
, March 8, 1979, A2.

58.
Hannaford,
The Reagans
, 201.

59.
Peterson, “Reagan for President Committee Is Formed.”

60.
Jeffrey Bell, in discussion with the author.

61.
Reagan with Novak,
My Turn
, 205.

62.
Memorandum from Peter Hannaford to Governor Reagan, “Your Access to the News Media,” October 26, 1979, Peter Hannaford Collections, Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA.

C
HAPTER
3: L
E
M
ALAISE

1.
Eugene Kennedy Franklin, “The Looming '80s,”
New York Times Magazine
, December 2, 1979, 17.

2.
Time
, “Now, the Self-Centered Generation,” September 23, 1974, 85.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Ibid.

5.
Chris Connell, Associated Press, October 23, 1979.

6.
Columbia University Augustine Club, “Text of Address by Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Harvard Class Day Afternoon Exercises, A World Split Apart, June 8, 1978,” Columbia University,
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/harvard1978.html
.

7.
Lee Lescaze, “Solzhenitsyn Says West Is Failing as Model for World,”
Washington Post
, June 9, 1978, A1.

8.
Ibid.

9.
Ibid.

10.
Ibid.

11.
George Will, “Solzhenitsyn's Critics,”
Washington Post
, June 18, 1978, B7.

12.
Reuters, “New Year's Day Brings New York a Homicide Record,”
Washington Post
, January 3, 1980, A14.

13.
Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover, “Pollster's Cleveland Poll Offers Unkindest Cut of All for Carter,”
Washington Star
, May 20, 1979, A4.

14.
Steven V. Roberts, “Carter, at Midterm, Is Still ‘Outsider’ to Many in Congress,”
New York Times
, March 7, 1979, A18.

15.
Lee M. Cohn, “0.7 Pct. Rise in GNP Just Above Recession Level,”
Washington Star
, April 19, 1979, A16.

16.
Michael Getler, “OPEC Increases Oil Price by 9%, Allows Surcharge,”
Washington Post
, March 28, 1979, A1.

17.
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “Shameful Treatment of the Shah,”
Washington Post
, April 27, 1979, A23.

18.
United Press International, “Kennedy Leading Carter by 2 to 1 in Poll of New Hampshire Voters,”
New York Times
, April 12, 1979, A20.

19.
Donald M. Rothberg, Associated Press, June 13, 1979.

20.
Kati Marton,
Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History
(New York: Pantheon Books, 2001), 236–38.

21.
James R. Dickenson, “Crane's Fledgling Presidential Campaign Beset by Full Share of Woes,”
Washington Star
, May 13, 1979, A4.

22.
Peter Goldman and Tony Fuller, “The Early Bird,”
Newsweek
, March 19, 1979, 37.

23.
Ronald Reagan,
The Reagan Diaries
, ed. Douglas Brinkley (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 227.

24.
Diane Henry, “Weicker Joins Race for the Presidency,”
New York Times
, March 13, 1979, A1.

25.
Ibid.

26.
John W. Mashek, “Preview '80; Bush's Theme: Time for Insider in White House,”
U. S. News & World Report
, October 22, 1979, 65.

27.
Dale Russakoff, “Cheerleader Style Further Blurs Bush Image,”
Washington Post
, November 3, 1984, A1.

28.
Bill Curry, “Bush Declares Presidential Candidacy,”
Washington Post
, May 2, 1979, A3.

29.
David Keene, in discussion with the author, March 17, 2006.

30.
David Keene, in discussion with the author.

31.
Adam Clymer, “Senator Dole Joins G.O.P. Race for '80 Presidential Elections,”
New York Times
, May 15, 1979, A1.

32.
James R. Dickenson, “Dole Formally Joins Six Others in GOP Race,”
Washington Star
, May 14, 1979, A1.

33.
James R. Dickenson, “Dole Seeks to Portray Self as GOP Pussycat in Presidential Campaign,”
Washington Star
, May 15, 1979, A3.

34.
Associated Press, June 1, 1979.

35.
Edward Walsh and Martin Schram, “Carter, Kennedy Clash Sharply on ‘Windfall’ Oil Tax,”
Washington Post
, May 1, 1979, A1.

36.
Steven F. Hayward,
The Real Jimmy Carter: How Our Worst Ex-President Undermines American Foreign Policy, Coddles Dictators, and Created the Party of Clinton and Kerry
(Washington, DC: Regnery, 2004), 155.

37.
William Shakespeare,
The Tragedy of King Richard III
, ed. John Jowett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 147–49.

38.
Vermont Royster, “Thinking Things Over,”
Wall Street Journal
, February 22, 1978, 22.

39.
Peter Goldman, James Doyle, Thomas M. DeFrank, Eleanor Clift, and Susan Agrest, “The Politics of Gas,”
Newsweek
, July 9, 1979, 29.

40.
Frank Cormier, Associated Press, July 11, 1979.

41.
Los Angeles Times
, “Reagan, Ford in Near Tie in Gallup Poll,” June 3, 1979, A2.

42.
Fred Barbash, “Reagan Raises $1.4 Million in Campaign Funds,”
Washington Post
, July 26, 1979, A8.

43.
Douglas E. Kneeland, “Bush Is Buoyed by Iowa Straw Poll,”
New York Times
, May 24, 1979, B12.

44.
Lou Cannon, “Bush Is Crushed by Wide Margin,”
Washington Post
, February 27, 1980, A1; R. W. Apple Jr., “Long Fight Likely,”
New York Times
, February 26, 1976, 1.

45.
James Gerstenzang, Associated Press, May 16, 1980.

46.
Harry Kelly, “Nation's Morale Torments Carter”
Chicago Tribune
, July 15, 1979, A12.