Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America (135 page)

43.
Ibid.

44.
David S. Broder, Glenn Frankel, Bill Peterson, David Maraniss, Keith Richburg, Kathy Sawyer, and Martin Schram, “Carter Is Flayed from the Podium,”
Washington Post
, July 16, 1980, A14.

45.
Clines, “Convention Journal: Goldwater Briefly Relives the Glory of '64.”

46.
Broder et. al., “Carter Is Flayed from the Podium.”

47.
Hedrick Smith, “Reagan Woos Ford as Top Republicans Denounce President,”
New York Times
, July 16, 1980, A1.

48.
Lou Cannon, David S. Broder, Bill Peterson, Martin Schram, David A. Maraniss, Peter Osnos, and William Greider, “Some States Back Kemp,”
Washington Post
, July 15, 1980, A1.

49.
Jack W. Germond, “GOP Field Narrows on VP Choice,”
Washington Star
, July 16, 1980, A1.

50.
Cannon et al., “Some States Back Kemp.”

51.
Germond, “GOP Field Narrows on VP Choice.”

52.
Robert D. Novak,
The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington
(New York: Crown Forum, 2007), 354.

53.
Ibid., 354–55.

54.
“A Nervous Kissinger to Address GOP Tonight,”
Washington Post
, July 15, 1980, A10.

55.
Steven Rattner, “Kissinger, Addressing Convention, Calls Carter's Policies ‘Incoherent,’”
New York Times
, July 16, 1980, A15.

56.
James Wooten,
World News Tonight
, ABC News Transcripts, July 16, 1980.

57.
Germond, “GOP Field Narrows on VP Choice.”

58.
Frank Lynn, “Former Top Aide to Rockefeller Turns to Reagan,”
New York Times
, July 16, 1980, A18.

59.
Joyce Purnick, “Hooks Urges GOP to Pursue Equality,”
New York Times
, July 16, 1980, A17.

60.
Ibid.

61.
Smith, “Reagan Woos Ford.”

C
HAPTER
24: M
OTOWN
M
ADNESS

1.
H. L. Mencken,
On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
, ed. Malcolm Moos (New York: Vintage Books, 1960) 83.

2.
Vermont Royster, “Peace, Harmony and Problems,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 14, 1980, 14.

3.
Jeff Greenfield,
The Real Campaign: How the Media Missed the Story of the 1980 Campaign
(New York: Summit Books, 1982), 161.

4.
Michele Davis, “My Recollections of Detroit; 1980 Diary,” July 14–16, 1980, Michele Davis Archives Collection.

5.
James R. Dickenson, “Reagan Agrees Baker's Best Role Lies in Senate,”
Washington Star
, July 16, 1980, A1.

6.
Albert R. Hunt and James M. Perry, “Reagan Picks Bush to Be Running Mate as Ford Deal Fizzles,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 17, 1980, 1.

7.
Mary McGrory, “A Brief Paradise for the GOP, Then Reality,”
Washington Star
, July 17. 1980, A4.

8.
Jack W. Germond, “GOP Field Narrows on VP Choice,”
Washington Star
, July 16, 1980, A1.

9.
Dick Wirthlin, in discussion with the author, November 8, 2006.

10.
James A. Baker III and Steve Fiffer,
Work Hard, Study… and Keep Out of Politics!
(New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2006), 98.

11.
Lyn Nofziger, in discussion with the author, 2004.

12.
McGrory, “A Brief Paradise for the GOP.”

13.
Memorandum, unsigned, “Ronald Reagan Detailed Schedule,” July 14, 1980, Colin Clark Archives Collection.

14.
Lawrence Martin, “How Ford's Demands Scuttled the Republican Dream Ticket,”
Globe and Mail
(Toronto), July 18, 1980.

15.
Thomas M. DeFrank,
Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford
(New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2007), 115.

16.
“Top GOP Adviser Urges a Reagan-Ford Ticket,”
Baltimore Sun
, May 15, 1980, A7.

17.
Haynes Johnson, David S. Broder, Lou Cannon, Bill Peterson, Martin Schram, and Felicity Barringer, “The Cement Just Wouldn't Set on GOP's Ideal Alliance,”
Washington Post
, July 18, 1980, A1.

18.
Ibid.

19.
Joseph E. Persico,
Casey: From the OSS to the CIA
(New York: Viking, 1990), 188.

20.
Dick Wirthlin, in discussion with the author, November 8, 2006.

21.
Ibid.

22.
John J. Rhodes, “The 1980 Republican National Convention,” Arizona State University Libraries,
http://www.asu.edu/lib/archives/rhodes/essay8.htm
.

23.
McGrory, “A Brief Paradise for the GOP.”

24.
Hunt and Perry, “Reagan Picks Bush to Be Running Mate.”

25.
Ibid.

26.
Jules Witcover and James R. Dickenson, “A Dream Ticket Dissolves Over Ford Reluctance,”
Washington Star
, July 17, 1980, A1.

27.
David M. Alpern, Martin Kasindorf, Thomas M. DeFrank, Henry W. Hubbard, John J. Lindsay, Gloria Borger, and Deborah Witherspoon, “How the Ford Deal Collapsed,”
Newsweek
, July 28, 1980, 20.

28.
Richard Cheney, in discussion with the author, March 19, 2007; Stuart Spencer, in discussion with the author, September 28, 2006.

29.
Bill Timmons, in discussion with the author, September 6, 2006.

30.
Paul Russo, in discussion with the author, September 8, 2006.

31.
Neal Peden, in discussion with the author, July 6, 2006.

32.
Johnson et al., “The Cement Just Wouldn't Set.”

33.
Albert R. Hunt and James M. Perry, “Reagan Plan Is to Make Carter the Issue, Stress Large Industrial States,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 14, 1980, 1.

34.
Doug Willis, “Reagan Acceptance Speech Six Weeks in Making,” Associated Press, July 17, 1980.

35.
Peter Hannaford, “Mon. Reception Remarks,” July 17, 1980, Peter Hannaford Papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, CA.

36.
Memorandum, unsigned, “Ronald Reagan Detailed Schedule,” July 14, 1980, Colin Clark Archives Collection.

37.
Howell Raines, “Ford Advisers Reportedly Asked Wide Concessions from Reagan,”
New York Times
, July 18, 1980, A1.

38.
Baker and Fiffer,
Work Hard, Study… and Keep Out of Politics!
, 100.

39.
Alpern et al., “How the Ford Deal Collapsed.”

40.
Martin Schram, “Ford, Roused by Last Hurrah, Clung for a While to the Torch,”
Washington Post
, July 18, 1980, A9.

41.
Ibid.

42.
DeFrank,
Write It When I'm Gone
, 115.

43.
Richard Cheney, in discussion with the author, March 19, 2007.

44.
Schram, “Ford, Roused by Last Hurrah.”

45.
Victor Gold, in discussion with the author.

46.
Margaret Tutwiler, in discussion with the author, December 1, 2006.

47.
Johnson et al., “The Cement Just Wouldn't Set”;Witcover and Dickenson, “A Dream Ticket Dissolves.”

48.
Lawrence Martin, “How Ford's Demands Scuttled the Republican Dream Ticket,”
Globe and Mail
(Toronto), July 18, 1980.

49.
Richard V. Allen, “The Accidental Vice President,”
New York Times Magazine
, July 30, 2000, 36.

50.
Ibid.

51.
Johnson et al., “The Cement Just Wouldn't Set.”

52.
Allen, “The Accidental Vice President.”

53.
Adam Clymer, “Reagan Says Bush Backs Platform; Ford Was Offered Major Authority,”
New York Times
, July 17, 1980, A1.

54.
James Gerstenzang, “Reagan Dumps Ford, Picks Bush for Veep,” Associated Press, July 17, 1980.

55.
Peter J. Boyer, Associated Press, July 17, 1980.

56.
Allen, “The Accidental Vice President.”

57.
Dick Wirthlin, in discussion with the author, November 8, 2006.

58.
Ronald Reagan,
An American Life: The Autobiography
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), 215.

59.
Schram, “Ford, Roused by Last Hurrah.”

60.
Ibid.;Victor Gold, in discussion with the author, March 27, 2006.

61.
Richard L. Strout, “The Summing Up: What Historians Will Remember About This GOP Convention,”
Christian Science Monitor
, July 18, 1980, 4.

62.
Greenfield,
The Real Campaign
, 164.

63.
Clyde Haberman, “Convention Replay: When TV Runs Hot, Politics Boils Over,”
New York Times
, July 20, 1980, E2.

64.
Ibid.

65.
Ibid.

66.
Robert Shogan, “High Tempers, Secret Meetings Mark Process,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 17, 1980, B1.

67.
Jim Roberts, in discussion with the author, July 2006.

68.
Ernie Angelo, in discussion with the author, November 13, 2006.

69.
Jim Lake, in discussion with the author, January 16, 2004.

70.
Allen, “The Accidental Vice President.”

71.
Hedrick Smith, “Reagan Wins Nomination and Chooses Bush as Running Mate After Talks with Ford Fail,”
New York Times
, July 17, 1980, A1.

72.
Stefan Halper, in discussion with the author.

73.
George Bush with Victor Gold,
Looking Forward: An Autobiography
(New York: Doubleday, 1987), 11.

74.
Stefan Halper, in discussion with the author.

75.
Ibid.

76.
Greenfield,
The Real Campaign
, 166.

77.
Allen, “The Accidental Vice President.”

78.
Mike Deaver, in discussion with the author.

79.
Haberman, “Convention Replay.”

80.
Lyle Denniston, “Bush's Speech Gave Convention Its Heart,”
Washington Star
, July 17, 1980, A3.

81.
Allen, “The Accidental Vice President.”

82.
Greenfield,
The Real Campaign
, 166.

83.
Ibid., 166–67.

84.
A. O. Sulzberger Jr., “Officials of 3 Networks Defend Coverage of Night of Speculation,”
New York Times
, July 18, 1980, A12.

85.
Haberman, “Convention Replay.”

86.
Greenfield,
The Real Campaign
, 164.

87.
Ibid., 167.

88.
R. W. Apple Jr., “Ford Takes Nomination on First Ballot; Reveals Vice-Presidential Choice Today,”
New York Times
, August 19, 1976.

89.
Smith, “Reagan Wins Nomination.”

90.
Lou Cannon, “A Triumph for the Man, and the Party,”
Washington Post
, July 17, 1980, A1.

91.
Alpern et al., “How the Ford Deal Collapsed.”

92.
Martin, “How Ford's Demands Scuttled the Republican Dream Ticket.”

93.
Allen, “The Accidental Vice President.”

94.
Johnson et al., “The Cement Just Wouldn't Set.”

95.
Edwin Meese, in discussion with the author, May 6, 2006.

96.
Richard Cheney, in discussion with the author, March 19, 2007.

97.
Stuart Spencer, in discussion with the author, September 29, 2006.

98.
Johnson et al., “The Cement Just Wouldn't Set.”

99.
Allen, “The Accidental Vice President.”

100.
Lou Cannon, in discussion with the author.

101.
McGrory, “A Brief Paradise for the GOP.”

102.
Martin, “How Ford's Demands Scuttled the Republican Dream Ticket.”

103.
Allen, “The Accidental Vice President.”

104.
Denniston, “Bush's Speech Gave Convention Its Heart.”

105.
Walter R. Mears, Associated Press, July 17, 1980.

106.
Allen, “The Accidental Vice President.”

107.
Mike Deaver, in discussion with the author, October 18, 2006.

108.
Allen, “The Accidental Vice President.”

109.
Peter Hannaford, in discussion with the author, March 24, 2006; Peter Hannaford,
The Reagans: A Political Portrait
(New York: Coward-McCann, 1983), 276–77.

110.
Mike Deaver, in discussion with the author.

111.
Hannaford,
The Reagans
, 277.

112.
Peter Hannaford, in discussion with the author, March 4, 2008.

113.
Peter Hannaford, in discussion with the author.

114.
Allen, “The Accidental Vice President.”

115.
Peter Hannaford, in discussion with the author, March 24, 2006.

116.
Allen, “The Accidental Vice President.”

117.
Jeb Bush, in discussion with the author, August 22, 2006.

118.
Bush with Gold,
Looking Forward
, 14.

119.
James M. Perry and Albert R. Hunt, “The Reagan-Ford Deal Was Built Bit by Bit and Then Fell Apart,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 18, 1980, 1.

120.
Allen, “The Accidental Vice President.”

121.
Stefan Halper, in discussion with the author.

122.
Bush with Gold,
Looking Forward
, 15.

123.
Jeb Bush, in discussion with the author, August 22, 2006.

124.
Bush with Gold,
Looking Forward
, 15.

125.
“Reagan's Announcement of Running Mate, and Comments by Bush,”
New York Times
, July 18, 1980, A12.