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  3. “Q&A with Mike Huckabee and Brian Lamb,” C-SPAN, January 21, 2005, http://www.c-span.org/video/transcript/?id=7949.

  4. Sneed, “Reestablishing Trust.”

  5. James Robison, “Freedom to Preach (part 2),” James Robison website, January 2, 2014, http://www.jamesrobison.net/freedom-to-preach-part-2/.

  6. Huckabee, personal interview.

  7. Jim Harris, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.

  8. Richard Pérez-Peña, “I May Be 50, but Don’t Call Me a Boomer,” New York Times, January 11, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/06/booming/i-may-be-50-but-dont-call-me-a-boomer.html?_r=0.

  9. George M. Marsden, The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief (New York: Basic Books, 2014), 140.

  10. Ronald Reagan, “Remarks at an Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast in Dallas, Texas,” University of Texas, August 23, 1984, http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/82384a.htm.

  11. “Q&A with Mike Huckabee and Brian Lamb.”

  12. Sneed, “Reestablishing Trust.”

  13. Ibid.

  14. Jodi Kantor and David Kirkpatrick, “Pulpit Was the Springboard for Huckabee’s Rise,” New York Times, December 6, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/us/politics/06huckabee.html, 1.

  15. Ibid., http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/us/politics/06huckabee.html?pagewanted=2&hp, 2.

  16. Huckabee, personal e-mail.

  17. Dwight McKissic, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.

  18. Randy Sims, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.

  19. Sneed, “Reestablishing Trust.”

  20. Ibid., 9.

  Chapter 19: Texarkana

  1. J. Everett Sneed, “Reestablishing Trust,” Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, April 12, 1990, 8–9.

  2. “Q&A with Mike Huckabee and Brian Lamb,” C-SPAN, January 21, 2005, http://www.c-span.org/video/transcript/?id=7949.

  3. Ibid.

  4. Mike Huckabee, Living Beyond Your Lifetime: How to Be Intentional About the Legacy You Leave (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2000), 72.

  5. Chris Cillizza and Dan Balz, “Interview with Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee,” Washington Post, May 23, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/22/AR2006052201237.html.

  6. Rick Caldwell, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.

  7. Sneed, “Reestablishing Trust.”

  8. “Advertisement for ACTS of Arkansas,” Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, March 24, 1988, 7.

  9. Haynes Johnson, Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003), 214.

  10. Steve Bruce, The Rise and Fall of the New Christian Right: Conservative Protestant Politics in America, 1978–1988 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), 193.

  11. Mike Huckabee and John Perry, Character Makes a Difference: Where I’m From, Where I’ve Been, What I Believe (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2007), 47.

  12. Mike Huckabee, “Defining Abundant Life,” The President’s Corner, Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, October 10, 1990, 4.

  13. Colleen Backus, “President’s Message,” Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, December 5, 1991, 9.

  Chapter 20: Can’t We All Just Get Along?

  1. Personal conversation with the author. Also, political scientist James Guth “showed that supporters of the Moral Majority tended to be less educated than their opponents, from less affluent churches, and less active in the life of the Southern Baptist Convention. They were, it seemed, a marginal group unlikely to have much long-term influence, even though the fundamentalist conservative wing had won the presidency of the SBC in the late 1970s after years of moderate control.” That quote comes from Jerome L. Himmelstein, To the Right: The Transformation of American Conservatism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 121–22.

  2. Jodi Kantor and David Kirkpatrick, “Pulpit Was the Springboard for Huckabee’s Rise,” New York Times, December 6, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/us/politics/06huckabee.html?pagewanted=all.

  3. Mark Kelly, “Election of Officers,” Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, November 23, 1989, 9.

  4. Mike Huckabee, The President’s Corner, Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, July 19, 1990, 4.

  5. “Election of Officers.”

  6. Ibid., 10.

  7. Kantor and Kirkpatrick, “Pulpit Was the Springboard for Huckabee’s Rise.”

  8. J. Everett Sneed, “Stir Thy Church,” Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, November 23, 1989, 1.

  9. J. Everett Sneed, “Reestablishing Trust,” Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, April 12, 1990, 8–9.

  10. Mike Huckabee, The President’s Corner, Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, August 23, 1990, 4.

  11. Ibid.

  12. Rob Marus, “Huckabee’s Role in SBC Conflict Presaged Political Balancing Act,” Baptist Standard, January 21, 2008, https://www.baptiststandard.com/resources/archives/48–2008-archives/7450-huckabees-role-in-sbc-conflict-presaged-political-balancing-act.

  13. Mike Huckabee, The President’s Corner, Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, June 14, 1990, 4.

  14. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2015.

  15. Colleen Backus, “Building God’s Family: Personal Testimonies Hallmark of Harmonious Convention,” Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, November 8, 1990, 7.

  16. J. Everett Sneed, “The Best Ever,” Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, November 8, 1990, 3.

  17. Mike Huckabee, The President’s Corner, Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, February 28, 1990, 5.

  18. Mike Huckabee, The President’s Corner, Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, July 19, 1990, 4.

  19. Sneed, “Reestablishing Trust.”

  20. Colleen Backus, “Hope for the Home: Strengthening Families,” Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, December 5, 1991, 9–10.

  21. Mike Huckabee, The President’s Corner, Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, July 4, 1991, 4.

  22. Mike Huckabee, “Passing the Torch,” The President’s Corner, Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, November 7, 1991, 4.

  Chapter 21: Experiencing God

  1. “Huckabee’s Hour with Charlie Rose,” RealClearPolitics, November 1, 2007, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/11/huckabees_hour_with_charlie_ro.html.

  2. Mike Huckabee, “Called to the Same Gospel,” The President’s Corner, Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, September 12, 1991, 5.

  3. Henry T. Blackaby and Claude V. King, Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God, rev. and exp. ed. (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2008), 72, 47.

  4. Ibid., 219.

  5. William H. Riddle, “The Interpersonal Dynamics of a Modern Political Family: An Interpretive Biography of Governor Mike Huckabee” (doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana at Monroe, 2011), 40.

  6. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2015.

  7. Mike Huckabee and John Perry, Character Makes a Difference: Where I’m From, Where I’ve Been, What I Believe (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2007), 48.

  8. “Q&A with Mike Huckabee and Brian Lamb,” C-SPAN, January 21, 2005, http://www.c-span.org/video/transcript/?id=7949.

  9. Ibid.

  10. Huckabee, personal interview.

  11. Ibid.

  12. Mike Huckabee and John Perry, Character Is the Issue: How People with Integrity Can Revolutionize America (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1997), 125–26.

  13. Huckab
ee, personal interview.

  14. Molly Ball, “Is the Most Powerful Conservative in America Losing His Edge?” Atlantic, December 28, 2014, http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/12/is-the-most-powerful-conservative-in-america-losing-his-edge/383503/.

  15. Hugh Hewitt, A Guide to Christian Ambition: Using Career, Politics, and Culture to Influence the World (Nashville: Nelson Books, 2006), 61, 65.

  16. Charmaine Yoest, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.

  17. Riddle, “Interpersonal Dynamics,” 39.

  18. “Huckabee’s Hour with Charlie Rose,” RealClearPolitics, November 1, 2007, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/11/huckabees_hour_with_charlie_ro.html.

  19. Mike Huckabee, personal e-mail to the author, spring 2015.

  20. Mike Huckabee, Living Beyond Your Lifetime: How to Be Intentional About the Legacy You Leave (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2000), 162–64; emphasis added.

  Chapter 22: You Can’t Always Get What You Want

  1. Rick Caldwell, personal interview with author, spring 2015.

  2. Randy Sims, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.

  3. Jim Harris, personal interview with the the author, spring 2015.

  4. “The Nation: Bumpers: Watch That Killer Smile,” Time, November 18, 1974, 10, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945093,00.html.

  5. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2015.

  6. Lester Sitzes, personal interview with the author, April 2015.

  7. Sims, personal interview.

  8. Sitzes, personal interview.

  9. Quoted in Benjamin Hardy, David Koon, and Lindsey Millar, “The Best and Worst of Arkansas Times’ First 40 Years,” September 18, 2014, http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/the-best-and-worst-of-arkansas-times-first-40-years/Content?oid=3460410.

  10. Sitzes, personal interview.

  11. Ibid.

  12. William H. Riddle, “The Interpersonal Dynamics of a Modern Political Family: An Interpretive Biography of Governor Mike Huckabee” (doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana at Monroe, 2011), 41–42.

  13. “Transcript of Q&A Between Mike Huckabee and Brian Lamb,” C-SPAN, January 21, 2005, http://www.c-span.org/video/?185230–1/qa-Mike-huckabee.

  14. Harris, personal interview.

  15. Mike Huckabee, Living Beyond Your Lifetime: How to Be Intentional About the Legacy You Leave (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2000), 141.

  16. Sims, personal interview.

  17. Huckabee, personal interview.

  18. Seema Mehta, “AIDS Statements Haunt Huckabee,” Los Angeles Times, December 12, 2007, http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-huckabee12dec12-story.html.

  19. Colleen Backus, “Building God’s Family: Personal Testimonies Hallmark of Harmonious Convention,” Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, November 8, 1990, 12.

  20. Max Brantley, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.

  21. Michael Kranish, “Gay Comments Haunt Huckabee’s Rise in Iowa, US Polls,” Boston.com, December 12, 2007.

  22. Sitzes, personal interview.

  23. Ibid.

  24. Riddle, “Interpersonal Dynamics,” 42–43.

  25. Sitzes, personal interview.

  Chapter 23: Even the Losers Get Lucky Sometimes

  1. “Q&A with Mike Huckabee and Brian Lamb,” C-SPAN, January 21, 2005, http://www.c-span.org/video/transcript/?id=7949.

  2. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2015.

  3. Ibid.

  4. Frontline, “Interview with George Stephanopoulos,” PBS, July 2000, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/interviews/stephanopoulos.html.

  5. Rex Nelson, “Clinton’s Hired Gun Gives Huckabee Hand: Lieutenant Governor Shooting for Senate,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, July 2, 1995.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Huckabee, personal interview.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Mike Huckabee, Living Beyond Your Lifetime: How to Be Intentional About the Legacy You Leave (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2000), 19–21.

  10. Huckabee, personal interview.

  11. These stories have been retold in many places, but especially in chapter 3 of Mike Huckabee and John Perry’s Character Makes a Difference: Where I’m From, Where I’ve Been, What I Believe (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2007).

  12. Mike Huckabee and John Perry, Character Is the Issue: How People with Integrity Can Revolutionize America (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1997), 62–63.

  13. Huckabee and Perry, Character Is the Issue, 62.

  14. Roy Maynard, “Arkansas’ Mister Clean,” World, July 6, 1996.

  Chapter 24: Under Pressure

  1. Mike Huckabee, Living Beyond Your Lifetime: How to Be Intentional About the Legacy You Leave (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2000), 119.

  2. Pat Huckabee Harris, personal interview with the author and/or the author’s team, spring 2015.

  3. Rick Caldwell, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.

  4. “Decade of Duty: Governor Mike Huckabee, July 15, 1996–January 9, 2007” (video), broken into six parts and posted on YouTube by “bosscog,” February 21, 2007. All six videos can be accessed via “Mike Huckabee—Decade of Duty” (playlist), posted by “Joseph Parks,” March 1, 2009, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBB082E7A3EC9D3A0.

  5. Caldwell, personal interview.

  6. “Decade of Duty.”

  7. Steve Barnes, “Arkansas Governor Resigns After Furor,” New York Times, July 15, 1996, http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/16/us/arkansas-governor-resigns-after-furor.html.

  8. “Decade of Duty.”

  9. Ibid.

  10. Ibid.

  11. Ibid.

  12. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2015.

  13. “Q&A with Mike Huckabee and Brian Lamb,” C-SPAN, January 21, 2005, http://www.c-span.org/video/transcript/?id=7949.

  14. “Arkansas Governor Blocks Medicare Payment for an Abortion in Incest Case,” New York Times, August 9, 1996, http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/10/us/arkansas-governor-blocks-medicare-payment-for-an-abortion-in-incest-case.html.

  15. “Pact Reached on Abortion in Arkansas Medicaid Case,” New York Times, August 13, 1996, http://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/14/us/pact-reached-on-abortion-in-arkansas-medicaid-case.html.

  16. Huckabee, personal interview.

  17. William H. Riddle, “The Interpersonal Dynamics of a Modern Political Family: An Interpretive Biography of Governor Mike Huckabee” (doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana at Monroe, 2011), 51.

  18. Caldwell, personal interview.

  19. Jim Harris, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.

  20. Randy Sims, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.

  21. “Time names the five best governors in America,” Time, November 13, 2005, http://content.time.com/time/press_releases/article/0,8599,1129509,00.html.

  22. Amanda Little, “An Interview with Mike Huckabee About His Presidential Platform on Energy and the Environment,” Grist, October 3, 2007, http://grist.org/article/huckabee/.

  23. Ibid.

  24. Chris Cillizza and Dan Balz, “Interview with Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee,” Washington Post, May 23, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/22/AR2006052201237.html.

  25. Harris, personal interview.

  26. Ibid.
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  27. Max Brantley, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.

  28. Huckabee, Living Beyond Your Lifetime, 34.

  29. Brantley, personal interview.

  30. Huckabee, personal interview.

  31. Ibid.

  32. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, and National Weather Service, “March 1, 1997 Arkansas Tornado Outbreak,” September 1997, http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/assessments/pdfs/ark61.pdf; TornadoHistoryProject.com, accessed June 18, 2015, http://www.tornadohistoryproject.com/custom/5821142; The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, s.vv. “Tornadoes,” accessed June 18, 2015, http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2377; Wikipedia, s.vv. “Tornadoes of 1997,” accessed June 18, 2015, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornadoes_of_1997.

  33. Frank Rich, “Journal; Lord of the Flies,” New York Times, March 27, 1998, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/28/opinion/journal-lord-of-the-flies.html.

  34. Mike Huckabee and George Grant, Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our Culture of Violence (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1998).

  35. Brenda Turner, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.

  36. “Arkansas State of the State Address for 1997,” C-SPAN, January 14, 1997, http://www.c-span.org/video/?78036-1/arkansas-state-state-address.

  37. Dwight McKissic, “Why I’m Voting for Mike Huckabee,” February 13, 2008, https://dwightmckissic.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/why-im-voting-for-Mike-huckabee/.

  38. Huckabee, personal interview.

  39. McKissic, “Why I’m Voting for Mike Huckabee.”

  40. Huckabee, personal interview.

  41. Ibid.

  42. “Central High School Desegregation Anniversary,” C-SPAN, September 25, 1997, http://www.c-span.org/video/?91570-1/central-high-school-desegregation-anniversary.

  43. Ibid.

  44. “Huckabee: Never Again Be Silent When People’s Rights Are at Stake” (transcript), September 25, 1997, Arkansas Online, http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/1997/sep/25/huckabee-never-again-be-silent-when-peoples-rights/?news-arkansas-specials-central_crisis.

  45. Lerone Bennett Jr., “Chronicles of Black Courage: The Little Rock 10,” Ebony, December 1997, 140.

 

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