Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America (142 page)

87.
William Endicott, “Reagan Rejects One-on-One Debate with Carter,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 26, 1980, B8.

88.
Mike Feinsilber, “League Appealing for Candidates to Agree on Debates,” Associated Press, September 27, 1980.

89.
United Press International, “Bush Accepts Challenge for Debate with Mondale,”
New York Times
, July 23, 1980, A14.

90.
George H. W. Bush, in discussion with the author, February 16, 2007; Walter Mondale, in discussion with the author, February 28, 2007.

91.
William Endicott, “Rep. McCloskey Endorses Reagan,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 26, 1980, B9.

92.
Lisa Myers, “Reagan, McCloskey Hold Unity Show in California,”
Washington Star
, September 26, 1980, A3.

93.
David S. Broder, “Ford Is Campaigning with a Vengeance—Against Carter,”
Washington Post
, September 26, 1980, A4.

94.
Associated Press, “Reagan Judged Best to Handle U. S. Economy,”
Washington Star
, September 27, 1980, A3.

95.
Raines, “Lyn Nofziger.”

96.
Hedrick Smith, “Poll Finds Reagan Leads After Debate,”
New York Times
, September 28, 1980, 1;William Endicott, “Reagan Would Be Happy If There Were No More Debates Unless He Slips in Polls,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 27, 1980, A28.

C
HAPTER
32: M
ISSION
FROM
G
OD

1.
Walter R. Mears, “Reagan Rated Ahead in Presidential Race with Month to Go,” Associated Press, October 4, 1980.

2.
Barry Sussman and David S. Broder, “Carter, Reagan Close in 7 Key States,”
Washington Post
, October 12, 1980, A1.

3.
Jeffrey Bell, in discussion with the author.

4.
Gene I. Maeroff, “In Spotlight, Reagan's School Is Wary,”
New York Times
, September 23, 1980, C1.

5.
Advertisement,
New York Times
, September 28, 1980, 56.

6.
Bernard Weinraub, “TV Battlefield Tests Presidential Strategies,”
New York Times
, October 8, 1980, B8.

7.
Robert G. Kaiser, “Carter and Reagan Media Strategies,”
Washington Post
, October 12, 1980, A2.

8.
Edward Walsh and David S. Border, “Carter Camp Sees Anderson 'decline,'”
Washington Post
, October 1, 1980, A3.

9.
Steven R. Weisman, “Carter Campaign Says Attack Strategy Is Working,”
New York Times
, September 26, 1980, A18.

10.
Tom Wicker, “A Calculated Contempt,”
New York Times
, September 28, 1980, E21.

11.
Memorandum from Karl Struble to Tim Kraft, “General Election Observations,” May 12, 1980, Carter/Mondale Presidential Committee, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Atlanta, GA.

12.
“Reagan Accused of 'duplicity,'”
New York Times
, September 27, 1980, 8.

13.
Howell Raines, “Reagan Backs Cautious Advisers in Split on a Debate with Carter,”
New York Times
, September 23, 1980, B8.

14.
Edward Cowan, “GOP Senators Lose in Bid to Bring Up Tax Cut Legislation,”
New York Times
, September 26, 1980, A1.

15.
Warren Weaver Jr., “Anderson Assails President for Implying Only He Can Keep World Peace,”
New York Times
, September 24, 1980, A26.

16.
Warren Weaver Jr., “Anderson Says Carter and Reagan Have ‘Folly’ Alliance on Atom War,”
New York Times
, September 25, 1980, B10.

17.
Howell Raines, “Reagan Presses ‘High Road’ Response,”
New York Times
, September 24, 1980, A26.

18.
Ibid.

19.
Associated Press, “Bush Faults Carter on Foreign Policy,”
New York Times
, September 26, 1980, A19.

20.
“UPI Survey Shows Reagan Way Ahead,” United Press International, October 11, 1980.

21.
Jeff Prugh, “The South: It May Not Rise So Solidly Again for Carter,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 11, 1980, A1.

22.
Howell Raines, “Reagan Is Balancing 2 Different Stances,”
New York Times
, October 4, 1980, 9.

23.
Hedrick Smith, “Democrats in Jersey Fear Loss of Blue-Collar Vote,”
New York Times
, September 26, 1980, A18.

24.
Richard Bergholz, “Reagan Renews Call for Parochial-School Tax Credits,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 2, 1980, B20.

25.
Lou Cannon, “Reagan, Echoing ‘New Deal,’ Woos Hard-Hats,”
Washington Post
, October 2, 1980, A4.

26.
James R. Dickenson, “Reagan Claims Carter Copied His Steel Plan,”
Washington Star
, October 2, 1980, A3.

27.
Robert Shogan, “Carter Assails Reagan on Arms Treaty, Warns of Nuclear Race,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 3, 1980, 6.

28.
Edward Walsh, “Carter Chides Reagan on Debate Issue,”
Washington Post
, October 1, 1980, A2.

29.
Robert Shrum, in discussion with the author, March 19, 2008.

30.
Sheilah Kast, “Unemployment Declines; Producer Prices Take a Dip,”
Washington Star
, October 3, 1980, A1.

31.
Edward Walsh, “Carter Loads the Guns of Incumbency,”
Washington Post
, October 5, 1980, A1.

32.
David Wood, “House Ousts Myers on 376–30 Vote,”
Washington Star
, October 3, 1980, A1.

33.
Kenneth R. Walker and Adrienne Washington, “Past Bauman Encounters Cited by FBI,”
Washington Star
, October 4, 1980, A1.

34.
Saundra Saperstein and Donald P. Baker, “Bauman in the Balance,”
Washington Post
, October 26, 1980, A1.

35.
Judy Bachrach, “Reagan Tries Hard to Avoid Communicating,”
Washington Star
, October 3, 1980, A4.

36.
Beverly Beyette, “NOW Assails Reagan's ‘Medieval Stance on Women,’ Withholds Support for Carter,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 6, 1980, B8.

37.
Wayne Slater, “Mondale Criticizes Reagan on SALT,” Associated Press, October 11, 1980.

38.
Jan Carroll, “Muskie Assails Reagan as Warmonger,” Associated Press, October 11, 1980.

39.
B. Drummond Ayres Jr., “Barbs and Gossamer Line First Lady's Political Trail,”
New York Times
, October 12, 1980, 34.

40.
Philip Shabecoff, “Labor Political Action Groups Mobilize in Bid to Defeat Reagan in Pennsylvania,”
New York Times
, October 8, 1980, B6.

41.
Steven Rattner, “Rating Carter on the Economy,”
New York Times
, October 8, 1980, D1.

42.
Clay F. Richards, United Press International, October 6, 1980.

43.
Norman C. Miller, “Perspective on Politics,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 9, 1980, 28.

44.
Richard L. Madden, “Anderson Accuses 2 Foes of ‘Low-Level’ Politics,”
New York Times
, October 8, 1980, B6.

45.
Douglas E. Kneeland, “Reagan Declares Carter Is at ‘a Point of Hysteria,’”
New York Times
, October 8, 1980, B6.

46.
Steven R. Weisman, “Carter Plans Shift in Campaign Tactics,”
New York Times
, October 9, 1980, B8.

47.
William J. Eaton, “Carter Says He Erred in Sharply Assailing Reagan,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 9, 1980, B1.

48.
Michele Davis, “1980 Diary,” October 8, 1980, Michele Davis Archives Collection.

49.
Eaton, “Carter Says He Erred in Sharply Assailing Reagan.”

50.
Terence Smith, “But President Still Attacks,”
New York Times
, October 10, 1980, A1.

51.
Eaton, “Carter Says He Erred in Sharply Assailing Reagan.”

52.
James Gerstenzang, Associated Press, October 8, 1980.

53.
Richard L. Madden, “Anderson, in Manhattan, Says Rivals Flip-Flopped,”
New York Times
, October 10, 1980, A1.

54.
Smith, “But President Still Attacks.”

55.
Jimmy Carter,
Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President
(New York: Bantam Books, 1982), 561.

56.
Howell Raines, “In Move to the Center, Reagan Plans to Alter 2 Antiunion Positions,”
New York Times
, October 9, 1980, A1.

57.
Timothy D. Schellhardt, “Scratch One Carter Election Tactic, Courtesy of a Prescient Gov. Reagan,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 9, 1980, 31.

58.
Raines, “In Move to the Center, Reagan Plans to Alter 2 Antiunion Positions.”

59.
Joanne Omang, “Reagan Criticizes Clean Air Laws and EPA as Obstacles to Growth,”
Washington Post
, October 9, 1980, A2.

60.
Winston Williams, “Ohio: The Beat of the Heartland,”
New York Times
, October 12, 1980, F1.

61.
Lisa Myers, in discussion with the author.

62.
Bill Prochnau, “Reagan Endorsement Flouts Union Chief,”
Washington Post
, October 11, 1980, A4.

63.
United Press International, “Teamster Executive Board Unanimously Backs Reagan,”
New York Times
, October 9, 1980, B8.

64.
Myron Mintz, in discussion with the author.

65.
F. C. Duke Zeller,
Devil's Pact: Inside the World of the Teamsters Union
(Secaucus, NJ: Birch Lane Press, 1996), 47.

66.
Mintz, in discussion with the author.

67.
Lawrence Martin, “On the Campaign Trail: From Turkeys to Trees to Longshots,”
Globe and Mail
(Toronto), October 31, 1980.

68.
Lou Cannon,
Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power
(New York: PublicAffairs, 2003), 308.

69.
Michele Davis, “1980 Diary,” October 7, 1980, Michele Davis Archives Collection.

70.
Jack Nelson, “Reagan Denies, Then Affirms Pollution Remark,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 10, 1980, 1.

71.
Eleanor Randolph, “Reagan Rally in Northridge Draws Backers,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 11, 1980, C1.

72.
Terence Smith, “Carter Asserts Reagan Presidency Would Be ‘Bad Thing’ for Country,”
New York Times
, October 11, 1980, 8.

73.
Ibid.

74.
Howell Raines, “Reagan's Camp Sees Carter as His Own Worst Enemy,”
New York Times
, October 12, 1980, 32.

75.
Patrick Caddell, in discussion with the author, May 13, 2009.

76.
Lee Lescaze, “Reagan, a Promising Campaigner, Makes Another One in Florida,”
Washington Post
, October 11, 1980, A2.

77.
Douglas E. Kneeland, “Reagan Seeks Halt to an Income Curb,”
New York Times
, October 11, 1980, 8.

C
HAPTER
33: S
TALLED

1.
Mary Thornton, “Carter, Reagan Rated Even in Texas Survey,”
Washington Star
, October 9, 1980, A6.

2.
Laurence I. Barrett, Edwin Warner, and Christopher Ogden, “The Jackpot States,”
Time
, October 13, 1980.

3.
Bill Lauderback, in discussion with the author, August 2, 2006.

4.
Owen Ullmann, “Carter Administration Announces More Help for Auto Industry,” Associated Press, October 14, 1980.

5.
Peter Goldman, James Doyle, Eleanor Clift, Thomas M. DeFrank, Martin Kasindorf, and John Walcott, “The Electoral Numbers Game,”
Newsweek
, October 13, 1980, 38.

6.
“Campaign Notes,”
Washington Post
, October 21, 1980, A3.

7.
Winston Williams, “Ohio: The Beat of the Heartland,”
New York Times
, October 12, 1980, F1.

8.
Adam Clymer, “Ohio Race Expected to Be Close as Labor Mobilizes for President,”
New York Times
, October 16, 1980, A1.

9.
Barrett et al., “The Jackpot States.”

10.
Ibid.

11.
Martin Schram, “Solid Edge Seen in Florida, Texas,”
Washington Post
, October 22, 1980, A1.

12.
Robert Shrum, in discussion with the author, March 19, 2008.

13.
Bernard Weinraub, “Carter and Reagan Ads Try to Hit Right Negative Note,”
New York Times
, October 28, 1980, A26.

14.
Jimmy Carter, in discussion with the author, July 11, 2006.

15.
David S. Broder, “Reagan's a Fat Target—but He Goes Unpunctured,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 13, 1980, C7.

16.
Joseph F. Sullivan, “Reagan, Campaigning in New Jersey, Receives an Unexpected Endorsement From a Mayor,”
New York Times
, October 7, 1980, D21.

17.
Martin Schram, “An Optimistic Camp: ‘Jimmy Carter Always Comes Back,’”
Washington Post
, September 16, 1980, A2.

18.
Albert R. Hunt and James M. Perry, “Reagan's Momentum Is Slowing in States He Needs for Election,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 16, 1980, 1.

19.
James Doyle, “The Boys in the Back Room,”
Newsweek
, October 6, 1980, 45.

20.
Hedrick Smith, “Jersey Appears to Support Reagan; Carter Strives to Overcome Apathy,”
New York Times
, October 17, 1980, 1.

21.
Owen Ullmann, “Confidential AFL-CIO Poll Shows Union Members Back Conservative Stands,” Associated Press, October 15, 1980.