42. Bill Boyarsky, “Carter, Reagan the Victors,” Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1980, 1.
43. Cannon et al., “Bush Is Crushed byWide Margin.”
44. Remer Tyson, “Month After Iowa, Bush is N.H. Loser,” Miami Herald, February 27, 1980, 1A.
45. Gerald Carmen, in discussion with the author, July 25, 2006.
46. Cannon et al., “Bush Is Crushed byWide Margin”; Myra MacPherson, “Reagan, Gaining Steam, Changes Horses,” Washington Post, February 27, 1980, A1.
47. Jim Hooley and Rick Ahearn, in discussion with the author, February 4, 2009.
48. Associated Press, “Reagan Switches Top Aide,” State (SC), February 27, 1980, 1.
49. MacPherson, “Reagan, Gaining Steam.”
50. Adam Clymer, “Reagan Easily Defeats Bush and Baker in New Hampshire; Carter Victor Over Kennedy,” New York Times, February 27, 1980, A1.
51. Associated Press, “Reagan Switches Top Aide.”
52. “Delegate Tally,” Miami Herald, February 27, 1980, 8A.
53. MacPherson, “Reagan, Gaining Steam.”
54. Tyson, “Month After Iowa.”
55. D'Vera Cohn, United Press International, “Bush: ‘There's No Excuse for It,’” Nashua (NH) Telegraph, February 27, 1980, 10.
56. Clymer, “Reagan Easily Defeats Bush.”
57. Associated Press, “Reagan Switches Top Aide.”
58. Donald M. Rothberg, “Presidential Campaigning Getting More Expensive,” Associated Press, February 9, 1980.
59. Associated Press, February 27, 1980.
60. Saul Friedman, “Victory for President Another Blow to Ted,” Miami Herald, February 27, 1980, A1.
61. Michael Putzel, “Former Democrats Welcomed by President,” Associated Press, June 10, 1985.
62. “In New Hampshire, They're Off!” Time, February 25, 1980.
63. Broder, “Dramatic Reversal of Fortune.”
64. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Final Days (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976), 369.
65. Harry F. Rosenthal, Associated Press, February 27, 1980.
66. David S. Broder, in discussion with the author, June 23, 2006.
67. James R. Dickenson, “Reagan's Man Sears Is Ready to Roll,” Washington Star, February 26, 1979, D1.
68. Peter Goldman, Gerald C. Lubenow, Stryker McGuire, James Doyle, Phyllis Malamud, and Martin Kasindorf, “Reagan Is Back in the Saddle,” Newsweek, March 10, 1980, 26.
69. Paul Laxalt, in discussion with the author, July 31, 2006.
70. Charles R. Black, in discussion with the author, March 20, 2006.
71. Ibid.
72. Helene Von Damm, At Reagan's Side (New York: Doubleday, 1989), 117.
73. John Sears, in discussion with the author, July 26, 2006.
74. Peter Hannaford, The Reagans: A Political Portrait (New York: Coward-McCann, 1983), 232.
75. Ibid., 233–35.
76. Charles R. Black, in discussion with the author, March 20, 2006.
77. Charles R. Black, in discussion with the author.
78. Jim Lake, in discussion with the author, September 19, 2006.
79. Ibid.; Colin Clark, in discussion with the author, September 22, 2006.
80. James R. Dickenson, “Reagan Fires Campaign Manager Sears,” Washington Star, February 27, 1980.
81. Edwin Meese, in discussion with the author, May 6, 2006.
82. Stuart Spencer, in discussion with the author, September 28, 2006.
83. Lou Cannon, “Reagan Moves to Cut Costs by Reorganizing,” Washington Post, February 28, 1980, A7.
84. Peter Hannaford, in discussion with the author, March 24, 2006.
85. Dickenson, “Reagan Fires Campaign Manager.”
86. Charles R. Black, in discussion with the author.
87. Memorandum by Peter Hannaford, February 26, 1980, Peter Hannaford Papers, Box 5, Reagan for President Committee, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, CA.
88. Goldman, et al., “Reagan Is Back in the Saddle.”
89. Robert Shogan, “Sears Ousted as Top Reagan Campaign Aide,” Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1980, A6.
90. Lou Cannon, Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power (New York: PublicAffairs, 2003), 463.
91. John Sears, in discussion with the author, July 26, 2006.
92. Shogan, “Sears Ousted.”
93. Michael Reagan, in discussion with the author, July 2, 2004.
94. Ronald Reagan, Reagan: A Life in Letters, ed. Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson (New York: Free Press, 2003), 240.
95. Charles R. Black, in discussion with the author.
96. Neal Peden, in discussion with the author, July 6, 2006.
97. Hannaford, The Reagans, 231.
98. Edwin Meese, in discussion with the author, May 6, 2006.
99. Memorandum, unsigned, “Call List,” February 26, 1980, Peter Hannaford Papers, Box 5, Reagan for President Committee, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, CA.
100. Memorandum, unsigned, “Telephone Talking Points,” February 1980, Peter Hannaford Papers, Box 5, Reagan for President Committee, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, CA.
101. Donald M. Rothberg, “Reagan Replaces Campaign Chief as He Reclaims Frontrunner Role,” Associated Press, February 26, 1980.
102. “‘He Was the Cruiser,’” Time, March 10, 1980.
103. Richard Allen, in discussion with the author, June 14, 2006.
104. Edwin Meese, in discussion with the author, May 6, 2006.
105. Theodore H. White, America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President, 1956–1980 (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 251.
106. Walter R. Mears, Associated Press, February 26, 1980.
107. James Baker, in discussion with the author, September 6, 2006; confidential interview with the author.
108. “Campaigns Finish in High Gear,” Concord (NH) Monitor, February 25, 1980, 1.
CHAPTER 11: UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
1. Les Brown, “Dan Rather to Succeed Cronkite,” New York Times, February 15, 1980, C30.
2. Harry F. Waters, “A Man Who Cares,” Newsweek, March 9, 1981, 57.
3. David Nyhan, “Reagan's Mr. Inside in N.H.,” Boston Globe, February 28, 1980, 1.
4. Gerald Carmen, in discussion with the author; Nyhan, “Reagan's Mr. Inside.”
5. George F. Will, “30 Seconds Over Nashua,” Washington Post, March 2, 1980, C7.
6. Tom Pettit, NBC Nightly News, NBC News Archives, February 27, 1980, http://www.icue.com/portal/site/iCue/flatview/?cuecard=5175.
7. Paul Kengor and Patricia Clark Doerner, The Judge: William P. Clark, Ronald Reagan's Top Hand (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2007), 104; Colin Clark, in discussion with the author, September 22, 2006; Ken Khachigian, in discussion with the author, May 2007.
8. Mary Elson, “I'll Criticize Reagan, Bush Tells Club Here,” Chicago Tribune, March 1, 1980, 5.
9. Richard Bergholz, “N.H.Winners, Losers Plotting Next Moves; Candidates Planning Their Next Moves,” Los Angeles Times, February 28, 1980, A9.
10. E. J. Dionne, “New Hampshire Poll Backs View of Volatile Mood Among Voters,” New York Times, March 2, 1980, 1.
11. Don McLeod, Associated Press, “Some Losing Candidates Face Loss of Funds,” Nashua (NH) Telegraph, February 28, 1980, 1; “Primary Picture,” Miami Herald, February 27, 1980, 1.
12. Edwin Meese, in discussion with the author, May 6, 2006; Kenny Klinge, in discussion with the author, July 12, 2006.
13. Rick Shelby, in discussion with the author, September 12, 2006.
14. Kenny Klinge, in discussion with the author, July 12, 2006.
15. Lyn Nofziger, “Sears Saga—Rise and Fall of ‘Political Genius,’” Citizens for the Republic Newsletter, March 21, 1980, 1.
16. Loye Miller Jr., Newhouse News Service, “Primary Victors Still Face Tough Road,” Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger, February 28, 1980, 1.
17. Fred Ferretti, “Political Valets Provide Clean Shirts and Sympathetic Ears,�
�� New York Times, February 25, 1980, B5.
18. B. Drummond Ayres Jr., R. W. Apple Jr., Douglas E. Kneeland, and Wayne King, “The Feeding of the Candidates,” New York Times, February 27, 1980, C1; Linda Carol Cherken, “Candidates Are as Different as Favorite Foods,” Miami Herald, February 28, 1980, 11E.
19. James R. Dickenson, “This Time Reagan Leaves N.H. as Victor, but Burdened with Spending Problems,” Washington Star, February 28, 1980, A3.
20. David Hoffman, “Republicans' Big Spender Nearing His Limit with 34 Primaries to Go,” Miami Herald, February 28, 1980, 28A.
21. Lou Cannon, “Reagan Moves to Cut Costs by Reorganizing,” Washington Post, February 28, 1980, A7.
22. Scott Mackay, “Carter Botched Hostage Crisis, Reagan Charges,” Burlington (VT) Free Press, February 28, 1980, 1A.
23. 23. “In New Hampshire, They're Off!” Time, February 25, 1980.
24. Mike Feinsilber, “Bush Tackles Vagueness,” Associated Press, March 6, 1980.
25. Tom Fiedler, “Campaigns in Florida Feeling N.H. Ripples,” Miami Herald, February 28, 1980, 28A.
26. Ibid.
27. Howell Raines, “Republicans Girding for Florida Battle,” New York Times, February 24, 1980, 16.
28. Lawrence Martin, “U. S. Publisher Who Beached Muskie Is Out to Fell Bush,” Globe and Mail (Toronto), February 22, 1980.
29. David Keene, in discussion with the author.
30. Willard F. Rose, “Kennedy: Hecklers Greet Him in South, Saying, ‘You Killed That Girl,’” Miami Herald, February 28, 1980, 29A.
31. Art Harris, “Anxious N.H. Candidates Assail Taciturn Yankees' Ears,” Washington Post, February 21, 1980, A3.
32. “Brown Chief Is Quitting Campaign,” Miami Herald, March 2, 1980, 21A.
33. “Campaign Notes,” Washington Post, February 29, 1980, A3.
34. Peter Goldman and Tony Fuller, “Big John: Whistling Dixie,” Newsweek, March 3, 1980, 30.
35. David S. Broder and Bill Peterson, “Despite Barbs, GOP Debate Produces Little Disagreement,” Washington Post, February 29, 1980, A6.
36. Thomas C. Cothran, Associated Press, “Some Say GOP Primary May Be Pivotal,” State (SC), February 25, 1980.
37. David Wald, “GOP Mails Ford Fund Pitch Amid Heavy Betting He'll Declare,” Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger, March 7, 1980, 7.
38. Tom Raum, “The Selling of the GOP,” Associated Press, January 29, 1980.
39. Hedrick Smith, “Ousted Reagan Aide Shuns Baker's Bid,” New York Times, February 29, 1980, B5.
40. Margot Hornblower, “Sears Details 'disorder' in Reagan Camp,” Washington Post, February 29, 1980, A1.
41. Ibid.
42. Tom Raum, “Former Reagan Aides Say They Were Fired,” Associated Press, February 28, 1980.
43. Paul Houston and Carol Blue, “Reagan Fired Them, 3 Top Aides Say,” Los Angeles Times, February 29, 1980, B25.
44. Charles R. Black, in discussion with the author.
45. Hornblower, “Sears Details 'disorder.'”
46. John Sears, in discussion with the author, July 26, 2006.
47. Ibid.
48. Richard Bergholz, “GOP Candidates Swap Barbs in Debate in South,” Los Angeles Times, February 29, 1980, B1.
49. Ibid.
50. Associated Press, February 29, 1980.
51. Ibid.
52. Associated Press, “Newspaper Polls Show Kennedy and Bush Leading in Massachusetts,” February 11, 1980.
53. Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover, “Reagan Closing Up on Bush in Massachusetts,” Washington Star, February 29, 1980; Ron Kaufman, in discussion with the author, August 25, 2006.
54. Ron Kaufman, in discussion with the author, August 25, 2006.
55. Ibid.
56. Bernard Weinraub, “Kennedy and Bush Face Key Tests Tuesday in Massachusetts Primaries,” New York Times, February 29, 1980, B5.
57. Ibid.
58. Adam Clymer, “Triumph by Reagan Stirs Fears of Shift to the Right,” New York Times, February 28, 1980, A19.
59. Loye Miller Jr., Newhouse News Service, “Primary Victors Still Face Tough Road,” Newark (NJ) Star Ledger, February 28, 1980, 1.
60. David Keene, in discussion with the author.
61. William K. Stevens, “Texas and California Are Forging a New Axis of Power for the '80s,” New York Times, February 29, 1980, A1.
62. Arlen J. Large, “Complex Arithmetic: As Census Nears, Issues of Compliance, Aliens, and Adjusting for Undercount Bedevil Bureau,” Wall Street Journal, February 27, 1980, 48.
63. United Press International, “House OKs Aid to Nicaragua,” Boston Globe, February 28, 1980, 6.
64. Ellen Hume, “Bush Assails Reagan Views on A-Waste,” Los Angeles Times, March 2, 1980, A26.
65. Jules Witcover, “Reagan Challenges Ford to Enter Primary Race,” Washington Star, March 3, 1980, A1.
66. David S. Broder, “Bush Aims to Fling More Zings at Reagan,” Washington Post, March 1, 1980, A2.
67. Bill Peterson and David S. Broder, “Reagan Criticizes Bush for ‘Bland Generalities,’” Washington Post, March 2 1980, A2.
68. Sara Rimer, “Politicians Snarl Over Lowliest Job,” Miami Herald, March 2, 1980, 1A.
69. Ibid.
70. Ibid.
CHAPTER 12: FORD TEES OFF
1. Lou Cannon, “Kennedy and Reagan: Grinning and Bearing a Lot,” Washington Post, March 2, 1980, A4.
2. Ibid.
3. United Press International, “Massachusetts Poll Has Bush, Reagan Dead Even,” State (SC), March 2, 1980, 12A.
4. F. Richard Ciccone, “Forget Moral Victories, Massachusetts Counts,” Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1980, 12.
5. David S. Broder, “Kennedy, Bush Campaigns on Line in Massachusetts,” Washington Post, March 3, 1980, A1.
6. Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “A Get-Tough George Bush?” Washington Post, March 3, 1980, A23.
7. Lou Cannon, “Anderson Battles 2-Man GOP Race Idea,” Washington Post, February 14, 1980, A2.
8. Elizabeth Rathbun, “John Anderson: ‘There Is Something Different About Me,’” Miami Herald, March 4, 1980, 12A.
9. United Press International, “Massachusetts Poll Has Bush, Reagan Dead Even,” State (SC), March 2, 1980, 12A.
10. James M. Perry, “Connally Woos Voters in South Carolina, His Last Stand, with Help of Thurmond,” Wall Street Journal, March 3, 1980, 8.
11. Bill Peterson, “Reagan Keeps Clean While Bush, Connally Sling Mud in S. C. Race,” Washington Post, March 5, 1980, A9.
12. United Press International, “Texans' Camps Slugging It Out,” Miami Herald, March 5, 1980, 10A.
13. Tony Fuller, “Connally's Bitter End,” Newsweek, March 24, 1980, 37.
14. F. Richard Ciccone, “Kennedy Trailing Badly Here,” Chicago Tribune, March 2, 1980, 1.
15. Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, “Job Performance Ratings for President Carter,” University of Connecticut, http://webapps.ropercenter.uconn.edu/CFIDE/roper/presidential/webroot/presidential_rating_detail.cfm?allRate=True&presidentName=Carter.
16. “Carter's Popularity Still Falling as Economy Gets More Attention,” Miami Herald, March 6, 1980, 24A.
17. United Press International, “Reagan Calls U.N. Shift ‘Preposterous Situation,’” New York Times, March 9, 1980, 34.
18. Aaron Epstein, “Ted: Was U.N. Blunder ‘Calculated’?” Miami Herald, March 11, 1980, 13A.
19. Barbara Walters, World News Tonight, ABC News Transcripts, March 5, 1980.
20. Adam Clymer, “Ford Declares Reagan Can't Win; Invites G.O.P. to Ask Him to Run,” New York Times, March 2, 1980, 1.
21. Jules Witcover, “Reagan Challenges Ford to Enter Primary Races,” Washington Star, March 3, 1980, A1.
22. Tom Wicker, “The Ford Shadow,” New York Times, March 7, 1980, A27; Peter Goldman, James Doyle, Thomas M. DeFrank, Gloria Borger, Stryker McGuire, Martin Kasindorf, and Tony Fuller, “Ford vs. Reagan Again?” Newsweek, March 17, 1980, 33.
23. “Ford Is
Put on Ballot in Maryland,” New York Times, March 4, 1980, B9; Adam Clymer, “35 Delegate Candidates in Illinois Switch From Baker Drive to Ford,” New York Times, March 10, 1980, B10.
24. “Bush Says No One Will ‘Roll Over,’” New York Times, March 3, 1980, D9; Hedrick Smith, “Baker Out of Race; Pressures Increase for Entry by Ford,” New York Times, March 6, 1980, A1.
25. 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), 110.
26. Russell Chandler, “‘Christian Voice’ Political Action Group Plans Massive Drive on Reagan's Behalf,” Los Angeles Times, March 6, 1980, 10.
27. Herb Frazier, “Bush Says Position Distorted,” State (SC), March 8, 1980, 1A.
28. Mike Clements, “Reagan's ‘Express’ Tours S. C.,” State (SC), March 7, 1980, 1A.
29. Mike Clements, “Confident Reagan Expects Victories Across South,” State (SC), March 8, 1980, 1A.
30. John Herbers, “Record Massachusetts Vote Is Seen Today in First Large-State Primary,” New York Times, March 4, 1980, A1.
31. Associated Press, “Baker Quits; Ford Says Even Chance He Will Start,” March 5, 1980.
32. Mike Feinsilber, “Bush Happy with New England Vote,” Associated Press, March 5, 1980.
33. Dan Balz, T. R. Reid, and Joseph A. O'Brien, “John B.Anderson: 12 Years on the Road to Discovery,” Washington Post, March 6, 1980, A3.
34. “Delegate Tally,” Miami Herald, March 6, 1980, 16A.
35. Tom Fiedler and William J. Mitchell, “Bush Aims at Reagan in Florida After Tiny Massachusetts Victory,” Miami Herald, March 6, 1980, A21.
36. “Baker Quits; Ford Says Even Chance He Will Start,” Associated Press, March 5, 1980.
37. “Delegate Tally,” Miami Herald, March 6, 1980.
38. Tom Fiedler, “Bush Will Step Up Attacks on Reagan,” Miami Herald, March 7, 1980, 18A.
39. Tom Fiedler, “Bush Pulls His Punches at Reagan,” Miami Herald, March 8, 1980, 16A.
40. Sara Rimer, “Ford Plays Cool at College: No, Not Yet—but Maybe,” Miami Herald, March 7, 1980, 17A.
41. Dennis A. Williams, Thomas M. DeFrank, and Martin Kasindorf, “The GOP's Hamlet,” Newsweek, March 10, 1980, 28.
42. Rimer, “Ford Plays Cool at College.”
43. Adam Clymer, “Ford Supporters Organize Group to Spur a Draft,” New York Times, March 7, 1980, A1; Adam Clymer, “2 Major Issues Raised in Ford's Potential Candidacy,” New York Times, March 8, 1980, 9.
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