The Family

by Kitty Kelley

  Interviews: Christopher Larsen, June 18, 2003, and Nov. 12, 2003; J. Milburn Jessup, May 21, 2003; correspondence with Timothy Sprattler, Oliver Wendell Holmes Library, Phillips Academy, Andover, Nov. 15, 2001; correspondence with Anthony H. Sgro, director of external relations, Woodberry Forest School, Nov. 14, 2002; correspondence with Ruth Quattlebaum, Phillips Academy, archives, Andover, Nov. 4, 2003; Genevieve Young, Nov. 14, 2003; Torbert Macdonald, July 18, 2003; Sandy Horwitt, May 9 and 14, 2003; Conway Downing, Feb. 15, 2002; Eric Wallach, Dec. 30, 2001; correspondence with Randolph W. Hobler, Feb. 21, 2002; Richard Lee Williams, July 2003; Thomas S. Weisser, Nov. 2, 2001; David Roe, Oct. 15, 2002; Christopher Byron, Oct. 14, 2002; Kenneth White, March 12, 2003; Joseph Howerton, July 2003; Cody Shearer, Aug. 21 and 27, 2003, and Oct. 8 and 15, 2003, and correspondence Oct. 16, 2003; George Sullivan, July 2003; Charles Marshall, Nov. 27, 2002; Thomas Wik, July 2003; John Gorman, July 2003; Erica Jong, Feb. 24, 2003; Sharon Bush, April 1, 2003, and May 13, 2004; Thomas B. Wilner, Nov. 30, 2002; Mark I. Soler, July 2003 and Nov. 7, 2003; William Sloane Coffin, June 15, 2001, and Oct. 11, 2002; correspondence with Cathryn Wolfman Young, Nov. 21, 2003, and Jan. 17, 2004.

  CHAPTER 15

  Records: Barbara Bush to Marvin Pierce, newspaper clippings files, and George Bush diaries for UN years (called “Notes” on finding aid), George Bush Presidential Library; George Bush to Lyndon Johnson, May 29, 1969, with transcript of press conference, May 28, 1969, Tom Johnson memo to Lyndon Johnson, May 28, 1969, George Bush campaign letter, Jan. 23, 1970, and Tom Johnson memo to Lyndon Johnson, Oct. 5, 1970, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library; Dorothy Bush eulogy for Prescott S. Bush, Observation Post (Yale class of 1977 newsletter), Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University; Prescott S. Bush will, Connecticut Probate Court.

  Books: Barbara Bush, Barbara Bush: A Memoir (New York: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 1995); George Bush with Victor Gold, Looking Forward (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987); Herbert S. Parmet, George Bush: The Life of a Lone Star Yankee (New York: Scribner, 1997); Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes (New York: Vintage Books, 1993); George Bush to Carl Warwick, Nov. 8, 1970, in George Bush, All the Best, George Bush (New York: Touchstone, 1999); Fitzhugh Green, George Bush: An Intimate Portrait (New York: Hippocrene Books, 1989); Donnie Radcliffe, Simply Barbara Bush (New York: Warner Books, 1989).

  Articles: Jefferson Morley, “Bush and the Blacks: An Unknown Story,” New York Review of Books, Jan. 16, 1992; “The Nation,” Nutmegger, Sept. 1978; Gail Sheehy, “Is George Bush Too Nice to Be President?” Vanity Fair, Feb. 1987; Robert L. Jackson and Ronald Ostrow, “Bush Got $106,000 in ’70 from Secret Nixon Fund,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 7, 1980; Walter Pincus and Bob Woodward, “A Public Life Courting the More Powerful; Bush Cultivated LBJ, Sought Nixon’s Aid,” Washington Post, Aug. 8, 1988; Jane Podesta, “Playing to Win,” People, Aug. 22, 1988; Jerry Tallmer, “Mrs. George Bush,” New York Post, June 19, 1971; “New Man at the U.N.,” Washington Star, Dec. 14, 1970; Elaine Sciolino, “Records Dispute Kissinger on His ’71 Visit to China,” New York Times, Feb. 28, 2002; “Bush Assumes Post as U.N. Envoy Today,” New York Times, March 1, 1971; “Ex-Sen. Bush Dies; Son UN Ambassador,” New Haven Register, Oct. 9, 1972; Beth McLeod, “President’s Mother Was Captain of Smooth-Sailing Family Ship,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 30, 1991; “Hail and Farewell,” Nutmegger, Dec. 1972; David E. Rosenbaum, “Bush Easily a Millionaire, but Growth Was Slow,” New York Times, June 6, 1988.

  Interviews: William Millburn, Jan. 30, 2002; John Claiborne Davis, Jan. 24, 2002; Stanley Willis, Jan. 25, 2002; Howard Means, Jan. 17, 2002; Marjorie Perloff, May 21, 2001; Leslie Cockburn, Dec. 12, 2000; Ymelda Dixon, Aug. 15, 2003; Betty Beale, Sept. 12, 2003; William Sloane Coffin, June 15, 2001; James H. Scheuer, April 3, 2002; Franny Taft, Oct. 8, 2002; Harry McPherson, June 6, 2002; Charles Bartlett, Oct. 30, 2003; Sydney M. Cone III, Nov. 29, 2002; Genevieve Young, Nov. 14, 2003; Joyce Burland, Jan. 9, 2003.

  CHAPTER 16

  Records: George W. Bush Texas Air National Guard records obtained through Freedom of Information Act, 2000; George W. Bush Texas Air National Guard records released by the President, Feb. 2004; documents concerning suspension of dentist’s license on Nov. 17, 2003, of Denis A. Peper, D.D.S., Department of Health Professions, Commonwealth of Virginia; George Bush diaries for UN years (called “Notes” on finding aid), April 19, 1971, George Bush Presidential Library; memo to George Bush from John Calhoun, Aug. 16, 1974, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.

  Books: Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose, Shrub (New York: Vintage Books, 2000); Bill Minutaglio, First Son (New York: Times Books, 1999).

  Articles: Ken Herman, “Barnes Called Guard to Help Bush Get In,” Austin American-Statesman, Sept. 28, 1999; Cragg Hines, “As Operative for His Father, Loyalty Was the Foremost Watchword,” Houston Chronicle, May 8, 1994; Skip Hollandsworth, “Younger. Wilder?” Texas Monthly, June 1999; George Lardner Jr. and Lois Romano, “At Height of Vietnam, Graduate Picks Guard; With Deferment Over, Pilot Training Begins,” Washington Post, July 28, 1999; Richard A. Serrano, “Bush Received Quick Air Guard Commission,” Los Angeles Times, July 4, 1999; Jim Wilkes, “The Pilot in the White House,” letter, Washington Post, May 23, 2003; John Grizzi, “Launching George W. in Politics,” Human Events, Jan. 1, 1999; “A Blast from the Past,” New York Daily News, May 27, 2001; David D. Porter, “Standing Up for Fairness; Blessings Endure from Civil Rights Movement,” Orlando Sentinel, Aug. 9, 2003; Jill Lawrence, “The Evolution of George W. Bush,” USA Today, July 28, 2000; Richard T. Cooper, “To the Manner Born, Bush Finds His Own Way,” Los Angeles Times, July 30, 2000; Rupert Cornwell, “The Bush Clan: The Family That Plays to Win,” London Independent, Nov. 7, 1998; Julie Hauserman, “Governor Gives Drug Issue Cold Shoulder,” St. Petersburg Times, Aug. 25, 1999; Greg Palast, “President Top Gun: Affirmatively Missing in Action,” gregpalast.com, July 9, 2003; Ralph Blumenthal, “Move to Screen Bush File in ’90s Is Reported,” New York Times, Feb. 12, 2004; Dave Moniz and Jim Drinkard, “Ex-officer: Bush Files Details Cause Concern,” USA Today, Feb. 12, 2004; “Air National Guard Commanding Officer Alleges Bush Military Records Cleansing,” talion.com, Nov. 5, 2000; Jo Thomas, “After Yale, Bush Ambled Amiably into His Future,” New York Times, July 22, 2000; Glynn Wilson, “George W. Bush’s Lost Year in 1972 Alabama,” Progressive Southerner (southerner.net/blog), Feb. 2, 2004; “Associates Have Differing Memories of Bush’s Alabama Stay,” Sarasota Herald-Tribune, February 12, 2004; Walter V. Robinson, “1-Year Gap In Bush’s Guard Duty; No Record of Airman at Drills in 1972–73,” Boston Globe, May 23, 2000, “Republican Ticket Lets a Military Connection Slip,” Boston Globe, July 28, 2000, and “Bush Credited for Guard Drills,” Boston Globe, Feb. 10, 2004; Laurence I. Barrett, “Junior Is His Own Bush Now,” Time, July 31, 1989; Paul Alexander, “All Hat, No Cattle,” Rolling Stone, Aug. 5, 1999; “George W. Bush, 1946–,” Harvard Guide, www.news.harvard.edu/guide (Aug. 18, 2003); “George W.’s B-School Days,” Business Week, Feb. 15, 2001.

  Interviews: Mark I. Soler, July 2003; Robert A. Rogers, Nov. 7, 2003; Christopher Byron, Oct. 14, 2002; Bill Penrose, May 14, 2003; Beverly Jackson, June 11, 2003; close friend of Denis Peper, Nov. 10, 2003; Marylouise Oates, March 18, 2003; Cody Shearer, Aug. 21 and Aug. 27, 2003, Oct. 8 and 15, 2003, and correspondence, Oct. 16, 2003; John Mashek, Aug. 13, 2002; Torbert Macdonald, July 18, 2003; Steve Arbeit, Jan. 14, 2003; Alf Nucifora, Nov. 12, 2003; Yoshi Tsurumi, March 8, 2004.

  CHAPTER 17

  Records: William J. Clark to George Bush, Jan. 31, 1973, George Bush diaries for RNC years (called “Notes” in finding aid), George Bush Peking diary, transcript of David Frost interview with George and Barbara Bush, Aug. 25, 1998, George Bush Presidential Library; documents concerning 1974 vice presidential search, cable from Henry Kissinger to George Bush, Nov. 1, 1975, and reply, memo from Warren Rustand to Dick Cheney, Nov. 29, 1974, concerning Jennifer Fitzgerald’s leaving for China, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library; George Bush
to Lud Ashley, Aug. 21, 1974, Thomas L. Ashley Papers, Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University; State Department Memorandum of Conversation, Peking, Dec. 2, 1975, National Security Archives.

  Books: George Bush letter to his sons, July 23, 1974, letters to Richard M. Nixon, Nov. 21, 1972, and Aug. 7, 1974, letter to James A. Baker III, Aug. 24, 1974, and diary entries Aug. 6, 1974, Aug. 22, 1974, Oct. 21, 1974, and July 6, 1975, in George Bush, All the Best, George Bush (New York: Touchstone, 1999); Donnie Radcliffe, Simply Barbara Bush (New York: Warner Books, 1989); Barbara Bush, Barbara Bush: A Memoir (New York: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 1995); Richard Reeves, President Nixon: Alone in the White House (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001); H. R. Haldeman, The Haldeman Diaries (New York: G. P. Putnam’s, 1994); Nicholas King, George Bush: A Biography (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1980); Herbert S. Parmet, George Bush: The Life of a Lone Star Yankee (New York: Scribner, 1997); Fitzhugh Green, George Bush: An Intimate Portrait (New York: Hippocrene Books, 1989); Lowell Weicker and Barry Sussman, Maverick (Boston: Little, Brown, 1995); Richard Nixon, In the Arena (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990); George Bush with Victor Gold, Looking Forward (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987); Gail Sheehy, Characters (New York: William Morrow, 1988); Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes (New York: Vintage Books, 1993).

  Articles: “Mrs. Bush—U.N. Wife, ‘I’d Pay to Have This Job,’” Washington Star, Feb. 20, 1972; Nicholas Lemann, “Bush and Dole: The Roots of a Feud,” Washington Post, Feb. 28, 1988; Jules Witcover, “Political Spies Accuse Committee Investigator,” Washington Post, July 25, 1973; Fred Barnes, “Ervin Brushes Aside Bush’s Charge,” Washington Star, July 25, 1973; Jeff Gerth with Robert Pear, “Files Detail Aid to Bush by Nixon White House,” New York Times, June 10, 1992; Barry Bearak, “His Great Gift, to Blend In,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 22, 1987; Lally Weymouth, “The Surprising George Bush,” M, May 1991; Christopher Lydon, “President’s Instincts Shaped Decision,” New York Times, Aug. 31, 1974, and “From Watergate Woes to Mission in China,” New York Times, Sept. 5, 1974; Gail Sheehy, “Is George Bush Too Nice to Be President?” Vanity Fair, Feb. 1987.

  CHAPTER 18

  Records: Documents concerning appointment of George H.W. Bush as CIA director, including Collins and Roth letters and letter from Gerald R. Ford to John C. Stennis, White House memo on Jennifer Fitzgerald, Gerald R. Ford statement, Nov. 3, 1975, on changes in administration personnel and decision of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller not to run for reelection, documents concerning George Bush swearing-in ceremony as CIA Director, documents concerning Justice Department investigation of Richard Helms, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library; Frank Church statement on George H.W. Bush nomination as CIA director, Nov. 11, 1975, Jacob J. Javits Papers, Special Collections, State University of New York at Stony Brook; “Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, on Nomination of George Bush to Be Director of Central Intelligence, December 15 and 16, 1975”; “Committee on Armed Services Report, Together with Minority Views (to Accompany the Nomination of George Bush),” printed Jan. 6, 1976; newspaper clippings files, Angus Thuermer account of lunch with Time editors, Feb. 23, 1976, Christmas card 1976, and Peking diary, George Bush Presidential Library; Lud Ashley to George Bush, Feb. 24, 1976, and George Bush to Lud Ashley, April 14, 1977, Thomas L. Ashley Papers, Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University; George H. and Barbara P. Bush Income Tax Return, 1977; CIA documents concerning George Bush’s interest in the John F. Kennedy assassination obtained through Freedom of Information Act (by David Robb, 1991); James Smith Bush FBI file obtained through Freedom of Information Act; divorce decree, Lois K. Bush and James Smith Bush, Dec. 4, 1970, Connecticut Superior Court, New London County; State Department “Consular Report of Death of an American Citizen Abroad” reporting the death of James Smith Bush, May 5, 1978.

  Books: Joseph E. Persico, The Imperial Rockefeller (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982); Herbert S. Parmet, George Bush: The Life of a Lone Star Yankee (New York: Scribner, 1997); Evan Thomas, The Man to See (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991); Robin W. Winks, Cloak and Gown (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1987); Fitzhugh Green, George Bush: An Intimate Portrait (New York: Hippocrene Books, 1989); Nicholas King, George Bush: A Biography (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1980); Daniel Schorr, Clearing the Air (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977); John Dinges and Saul Landau, Assassination on Embassy Row (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980); Barbara Bush, Barbara Bush: A Memoir (New York: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 1995); Gail Sheehy, Characters (New York: William Morrow, 1988); George Bush with Victor Gold, Looking Forward (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987); George Bush letter to J. C. Mohler, Aug. 4, 1976, letter to H. Neil Mallon, Aug. 16, 1976, letter to FitzGerald Bemiss, March 9, 1977, and diary entry June 4, 1975, in George Bush, All the Best, George Bush (New York: Touchstone, 1999); Bill Minutaglio, First Son (New York: Times Books, 1999); Ann Gerhart, The Perfect Wife (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004).

  Articles: Bob Woodward and Walter Pincus, “At CIA, a Rebuilder ‘Goes with the Flow’; Avoiding Intellectual Debate, Bush Focused on Agency Image,” Washington Post, Aug. 10, 1988; Norman Kempster, “Bush Urges Secrecy on Reporters List,” Washington Star, Feb. 10, 1975; “CIA Halting Use of U.S. Reporters as Secret Agents,” Washington Star, Feb. 12, 1976; Robert Lenzner, “Frank Sinatra Volunteers for a New Role—As CIA Helper,” Boston Globe, April 15, 1976; David Robb, “Stone Doubts Bush’s Faith in Warren Report,” Daily Variety, Jan. 6, 1992; Scott Armstrong and Jeff Nason, “Company Man,” Mother Jones, Oct. 1988; Jim Mann, “Bush Tried to Curb Probe of CIA,” Los Angeles Times, Sept. 30, 1988; Robert Parry, “George H.W. Bush, the CIA, and a Case of State Terrorism,” consortiumnews.com, Sept. 23, 2000; “But Who Has His Bag?” Associated Press, Feb. 13, 1976; transcript, Larry King Weekend, CNN, June 28, 2003; Kenneth T. Walsh, “The Good Fortune of Being Barbara Bush,” U.S. News & World Report, May 18, 1990; Susan Watters, “When Push Comes to Shove,” W, April 28–May 5, 1978; Lally Weymouth, “The Surprising George Bush,” M, May 1991; Lois Romano and George Lardner Jr., “A Run for the House; Courting a Wife, Then the Voters,” Washington Post, July 29, 1999; Mary Leonard, “A Dynasty Sign in Bush Sons’ Rise,” Boston Globe, Nov. 18, 1998; Andrew Stephen, “Dog Days at the White House,” Sunday Times Magazine, July 22, 2001; Laura Bush, “First Person Singular,” Washington Post Magazine, March 10, 2002; Michael Kranish, “Powerful Alliance Aids Bushes’ Rise,” Boston Globe, April 22, 2001; Jo Anne Davis, “Bush ‘Coming Home,’” St. Louis Post Dispatch, Oct. 10, 1979; Bob Woodward, “To Bones Men, Bush Is a Solid ‘Moderate,’” Washington Post, Aug. 7, 1988.

  Interviews: Friend of Prescott S. Bush III, Oct. 12, 2002; Elizabeth W. Holden, May 28, 2003; Phyllis Theroux, Aug. 19, 2001; Beverly Sullivan, Nov. 28, 2003; Stephanie Lilley, Nov. 28, 2003; correspondence with Robin W. Winks, June 6, 2002; Roger Molander, Feb. 15, 2002; Osborne Day, Aug. 6, 2002; Robert Lenzner, July 17, 2002; Pat Holt, March 7, 2002; Martha Kessler, Nov. 14, 2001; David Robb, Nov. 14, 2001; Geoffrey Kabaservice, May 24, 2001; Gail Sheehy, April 29, 2002, and correspondence, June 24, 2002; Richard Helms, March 10, 2002; Ymelda Dixon, Aug. 15, 2003; Cody Shearer, Aug. 21 and 27, 2003, and Oct. 8 and 15, 2003, and correspondence, Oct. 16, 2003; correspondence with Lois Herbert, July 7 and 25, 2002; Ray Walker, May 28, 2003; Serena Stewart, June 4, 2002; Charles Stephan, July 16, 2002; Fred Purdy, July 30, 2002.

  CHAPTER 19

  Records: Press release, April 10, 1989, “Remarks of Ambassador George Bush, Candidate for the Republican Presidential Nomination, Before the Collegiate Press Association at Carnegie Mellon” (“voo-doo economic policy”); George Bush diaries for RNC years (called “Notes” in finding aid), Nov. 30, 1973, George Bush Presidential Library; George H. and Barbara P. Bush Income Tax Return, 1981; George H.W. Bush to Barry Goldwater, Nov. 14, 1984, Barry M. Goldwater Papers, Arizona Historical Foundation; “Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters, Vol. I, Augu
st 4, 1993.”

  Books: George Bush with Victor Gold, Looking Forward (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987); John Podhoretz, Hell of a Ride (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993); Ed Rollins with Tom DeFrank, Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms (New York: Broadway Books, 1996); Herbert S. Parmet, George Bush: The Life of a Lone Star Yankee (New York: Scribner, 1997); Susan B. Trento, The Power House (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992); Selwa “Lucky” Roosevelt, Keeper of the Gate (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990); Bob Schieffer and Gary Paul Gates, The Acting President (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1989); Peter Schweizer and Rochelle Schweizer, The Bushes (New York: Doubleday, 2004); Edmund Morris, Dutch (New York: Modern Library, 1999); Mollie Dickenson, Thumbs Up (New York: William Morrow, 1987); Larry Speakes with Robert Pack, Speaking Out (New York: Scribner, 1988); Barbara Bush, Barbara Bush: A Memoir (New York: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 1995); Donnie Radcliffe, Simply Barbara Bush (New York: Warner Books, 1989); Geraldine A. Ferraro with Linda Bird Francke, Ferraro, My Story (New York: Bantam Books, 1985); Peter Goldman and Tony Fuller, The Quest for the Presidency 1984 (New York: Bantam Books, 1985); Mark Hertsgaard, On Bended Knee (New York: Schocken Books, 1989); Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover, Wake Us When It’s Over (New York: Macmillan, 1985); Robin T. Lakoff, Talking Power (New York: Basic Books, 1990); George Bush letter to Barber Conable, Nov. 8, 1984, in George Bush, All the Best, George Bush (New York: Touchstone, 1999); Lou Cannon, President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991); The Tower Commission Report (New York: Bantam Books and Times Books, 1987); George P. Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph (New York: Scribner, 1993).