by Scott Lamb
46. Kevin Sack, “On 40th Anniversary of Little Rock Struggle, Clinton Warns Against Resegregation,” New York Times, September 26, 1997, http://events.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/littlerock/0926little-rock.html.
47. Mike Huckabee and John Perry, Character Makes a Difference: Where I’m From, Where I’ve Been, What I Believe (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2007), 8.
Chapter 25: Life Is a Highway
1. Brian Skoloff, “Governor: Highway Improvements Helping Roads, State Reputation,” Associated Press, January 25, 2002, http://thecabin.net/stories/012502/sta_0125020047.shtml#.VYy0seuBZqs.
2. James Jefferson, “Highway Bills Pass House,” Associated Press, March 4, 1999, http://thecabin.net/stories/030499/sta_0304990005.shtml#.VYy1f-uBZqt.
3. Mike Huckabee, “On Behalf of Fix Our Roads Committee,” (letter), April 10, 1999, accessed at the Mike Huckabee collection of archives at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
4. Alice Stewart, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.
5. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.
6. 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), 49–50.
7. Kenneth Vogel, “Huckabee Rivals Unearth Ethics Complaints,” Politico, November 21, 2007, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/7000.html.
8. Ibid.
9. Vogel, “Huckabee Rivals Unearth Ethics Complaints,” 2, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/7000_Page2.html.
10. Max Brantley, “The Dark Side of Mike Huckabee,” Salon, November 13, 2007, http://www.salon.com/2007/11/13/huckabee_5/.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Andrew DeMillo, “Huckabee Defends ‘Wedding’ Gift Registry,” Washington Post, November 14, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/14/AR2006111400724.html.
14. David Firestone, “Little Rock Journal; Governor’s Mansion Is a Triple-Wide,” New York Times, July 18, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/19/us/little-rock-journal-governor-s-mansion-is-a-triple-wide.html.
15. James Jefferson, “Leno, Arkansas Governor Trade Barbs,” http://amarillo.com/stories/081100/usn_leno.shtml#.VYLpq_lVhBc.
16. Mike Huckabee and John Perry, Character Is the Issue: How People with Integrity Can Revolutionize America (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1997), 135.
17. Tom Bevan, “Interview with Mike Huckabee,” RealClearPolitics, March 27, 2007, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/03/interview_with_mike_huckabee.html.
18. Mark Leibovich, “Fire in the Belly Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Dedicated to Fighting Obesity, Could Have a Meaty Opportunity Ahead,” Washington Post, January 17, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2006/01/17/fire-in-the-belly-span-classbankheadarkansas-gov-mike-huckabee-dedicated-to-fighting-obesity-could-have-a-meaty-opportunity-aheadspan/2ac2d3ce-9a2f-41c7-bd20-22883923b8d6/.
19. Andy Barr, “Huck’s Humor,” Politico Live, September 17, 2010, http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0910/Hucks_humor.html.
20. Ariel Levy, “Prodigal Son,” New Yorker, June 28, 2010, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/06/28/prodigal-son.
21. Huckabee, personal interview.
22. Ibid.
23. Janet McCain Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2015.
Chapter 26: Another Brick in the Wall
1. Ariel Levy, “Prodigal Son,” New Yorker, June 28, 2010, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/06/28/prodigal-son.
2. “Governor Huckabee’s News Column: Subj.: Lake View Case,” February 22, 2003. Arkansas State Library Archive, http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/AST/2006/06/20/0000021102/viewer/file1.html.
3. “Arkansas Governor Huckabee’s Educational Plan,” accessed June 18, 2015, http://www.wpaag.org/Huckabee’s%20Ed.%20Plan%20–2%20Parts.htm.
4. Levy, “Prodigal Son.”
5. “Gov. Mike Huckabee: Strafford County Republican Picnic/Pig Roast: Three River Farm: Dover, New Hampshire” (transcript), August 27, 2005, http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/huckab082705spt.html.
6. Dan Balz, “Microsoft’s Gates Urges Governors to Restructure U.S. High Schools,” Washington Post, February 27, 2005, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/03/23/AR2005032302395.html.
7. Richard Fausset, “Huckabee Breaks the GOP Mold with Idiosyncratic Stands,” Los Angeles Times, December 2, 2007, http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/02/nation/na-huckabee2.
8. Doug Thompson, “Immigration Bill Un-Christian, Anti-Life, Governor Says,” Arkansas News Bureau, January 28, 2005, http://web.archive.org/web/20070704122041/http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2005/01/28/News/316347.html.
9. Chad Gallagher, personal interview with the author, spring 2015. The remaining quotations in this section are also from this interview.
10. “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.
11. Ibid.
12. “Inspire Awards: Volunteering, Celebrity Activists, Making a Difference,” on the website of the AARP, accessed June 26, 2015, http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/advocacy/info-2005/impact_awards_huck.html.
13. Alan Greenblatt, “2005 Honoree: Mike Huckabee—Trim Waist, Hefty Record,” Governing magazine, 2005, http://www.governing.com/poy/Mike-Huckabee.html.
14. Michael D. Tanner, “Huckabee: The Biggest Big-Government Conservative,” CATO Institute, http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/huckabee-biggest-biggovernment-conservative.
15. Levy, “Prodigal Son.”
16. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2015.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Associated Press, “Ark. Governor Embraces Covenant Marriage,” NBC News, upd. November 9, 2004, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6440961/ns/us_news/t/ark-governor-embraces-covenant-marriage/.
20. Shaila Dewan, “The Slenderized Governor, with Advice to Share,” New York Times, September 9, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/us/10weight.html.
21. Stella Prather, “Ark. Governor, 6,400 Others Take Stand for Covenant Marriages,” Baptist Press, February 15, 2005, http://www.bpnews.net/20148/ark-governor-6400-others-take-stand-for-covenant-marriages.
22. Melinda Henneberger, “Shoots Bear, Submits to Husband: The Fascinating Marriage of Mike and Janet Huckabee,” Slate, January 29, 2008, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/first_mates/2008/01/shoots_bear_submits_to_husband.html.
23. Levy, “Prodigal Son.”
24. “Q&A with Mike Huckabee and Brian Lamb,” C-SPAN, January 21, 2005, http://www.c-span.org/video/transcript/?id=7949.
25. Mark Leibovich, “Fire in the Belly,” Washington Post, January 17, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/16/AR2006011601380.html.
26. “Q&A with Mike Huckabee and Brian Lamb.”
27. Alice Stewart, personal interview with the author, April 2015.
28. Ibid.
29. Huckabee, personal interview.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid.
Chapter 27: With a Little Help from My Friends
1. “MTP Transcript for Jan. 28, 2007,” NBCNews, January 28, 2007, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16785556/ns/meet_the_press/t/mtp-transc
ript-jan/#.VVUEYvlViko.
2. Mike Huckabee, Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America (New York: Sentinel, 2008).
3. Tom Bevan, “Interview with Mike Huckabee,” RealClearPolitics, March 27, 2007, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/03/interview_with_Mike_huckabee.html.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Huckabee, Do the Right Thing, 51.
7. Alan Cooperman, “Evangelicals at a Crossroads as Falwell’s Generation Fades,” Washington Post, May 22, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/21/AR2007052101581.html.
8. Tim Alberta and Tiffany Stanley, “Inside Jeb Bush’s Stealth Campaign to Woo Christian Conservatives,” National Journal, March 28, 2015, http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/jeb-bush-religious-christian-conservatives-20150327.
9. “Press Release—Huckabee campaign sets the record straight with Paul Weyrich,” The American Presidency Project, November 6, 2007, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=93364.
10. Huckabee, Do the Right Thing, 56.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Warren Cole Smith, “Divided We Stand,” World, April 5, 2008, 1, http://www.worldmag.com/2008/04/divided_we_stand.
14. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2014.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Robert Novak, “Baptists Not on Board,” Washington Post, December 20, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/19/AR2007121901856.html.
18. Dwight McKissic, “Wm. Dwight McKissic, Sr,” March 12, 2012, https://dwightmckissic.wordpress.com/2011/03/.
19. Huckabee, personal interview.
20. Smith, “Divided We Stand.”
21. NBC, “Republican Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” January 2, 2008, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/pdf/Huckabee-on-Leno-1-2-2008.pdf.
22. “GOP Candidates Go for the Jugular in Feisty Primary Debate,” Fox News, May 16, 2007, http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/05/16/gop-candidates-go-for-jugular-in-feisty-primary-debate/.
23. Rick Caldwell, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.
24. Mike Huckabee, “Republican Presidential Debate in South Carolina,” New York Times, May 15, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/us/politics/16repubs-text.html?#59;oref=slogin&_r=4&pagewanted=all.
25. Guy Reel, Unequal Justice: Wayne Dumond, Bill Clinton, and the Politics of Rape in Arkansas (Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1993).
26. Marc Fisher, “Marc Fisher—The Gift of Justice Doesn’t Cost a Dime,” Washington Post, December 23, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/22/AR2007122201549.html.
27. Huckabee, personal interview.
28. Jill Lawrence, “Straw Poll: Huckabee Spent Just $58 per Vote for 2nd Place and Revived Prospects,” USA Today, August 12, 2007, http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2007/08/163446/1#.VXRrFNJVhBc.
29. Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, “Republican Candidates ‘All-American Presidential Forum’ at Morgan State University in Baltimore,” September 27, 2007, The American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=75913.
30. Joy Lin, “Huckabee Courts Black Vote,” CBS News, January 21, 2008, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/huckabee-courts-black-vote/.
31. “The Republican Debate,” New York Times, October 9, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/us/politics/09debate-transcript.html?pagewanted=all.
32. Ariel Levy, “Prodigal Son,” New Yorker, June 28, 2010, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/06/28/prodigal-son.
33. Huckabee, personal interview.
34. W. James Antle III, “Huckabee: ‘I’m a Main Street Republican,’ ” Politico, August 8, 2007, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0807/5428.html.
35. 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.
36. Gail Russell Chaddock, “Mike Huckabee: A Conservative with a Social Gospel,” Christian Science Monitor, November 7, 2007, http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1107/p01s04-uspo.html.
37. David Madland, “What Would Jesus Tax?” Think Tank Town (blog), January 19, 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/18/AR2008011802936.html.
38. Ibid.
39. “Phyllis Schlafly comments on Huckabee’s lack of conservatism,” Eagle Forum Legislative Alerts, October 26, 2007, http://blog.eagleforum.org/2007/10/phyllis-schlafly-on-huckabee.html.
40. Kevin Bumpus, “Before Mike Huckabee was Governor,” C-SPAN, January 24, 2015, http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4528649/Mike-huckabee-governor.
41. “We Recommend Mike Huckabee for the Republican Nomination,” Dallas Morning News, December 23, 2007.
42. Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, “Statement by Mike Huckabee on Latest Polls—New Rasmussen Poll Shows Huckabee Ahead of Romney in Iowa,” November 28, 2007, The American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=91284.
43. Matt Taibbi, “My Favorite Nut Job,” Rolling Stone, March 25, 2011, http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/my-favorite-nut-job-20110325#ixzz3a08wTGuX.
44. “Mike Huckabee Ad: ‘Chuck Norris Approved,’ ” YouTube video, 1:00, posted by “Veracifier,” November 18, 2007, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDUQW8LUMs8.
45. Zev Chafets, “The Huckabee Factor,” New York Times, December 12, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/12/magazine/16huckabee.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.
46. Jeremy Wallace, “When Marco Rubio Was Firmly on Mike Huckabee’s Team,” HT Politics, January 31, 2015, http://politics.heraldtribune.com/2015/01/31/marco-rubio-firmly-mike-huckabees-team/.
47. “Presidential Forum Transcript,” December 9, 2007, Univision, http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Univision_Republican_Forum_Transcript.pdf.
48. Huckabee, Do the Right Thing, 60.
49. Bert Decker, “Top Ten Best (and Worst) Communicators of 2007,” Decker Communications, December 31, 2007, https://decker.com/blog/top-ten-best-and-worst-communicators-of-2007/.
50. NBC, “Republican Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”
Chapter 28: We Are the Champions
1. “Mike Huckabee: Remarks Following the Iowa Caucuses,” January 3, 2008, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=76230.
2. Charmaine Yoest, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.
3. Michael Shear and Perry Bacon, “GOP Victor Calls for ‘New Day’ in Politics,” Houston Chronicle, January 4, 2008, http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/GOP-victor-calls-for-new-day-in-politics-1785169.php.
4. “Mike Huckabee: Remarks Following the Iowa Caucuses.”
5. Ibid.
Chapter 29: If I Were a Rich Man
1. Jodi Kantor, “Pulpit Was the Springboard for Huckabee’s Rise,” New York Times, December 5, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/us/politics/06huckabee.html.
2. Alexander Mooney, “$40 Million Spent to Tout Candidates on Iowa TV,” CNN, January 1, 2008, http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/01/iowa.ad.spending/.
3. Kevin Merida, “Her Motto: ‘I Like (M)Ike,’ ” Washington Post, January 4, 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/03/AR2008010304129.html.
4. Michael Scherer, “The GOP Gets Gaudy in Michigan,” Salon, September 24, 2007, htt
p://www.salon.com/2007/09/24/mackinac/.
5. Mike Huckabee, Living Beyond Your Lifetime: How to Be Intentional About the Legacy You Leave (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2000), v.
6. 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.
7. Mike and Janet Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2014.
8. Philip Elliott, “Huckabee Poised to Jump into GOP Primary (Video),” Christian Science Monitor, April 18, 2015, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2015/0418/Huckabee-poised-to-jump-into-GOP-primary-video.
9. Joel Achenbach, “Huckabee’s Big Whiff; Plus, Luckiest Man Alive?” Achenblog (Post blog), December 5, 2007, http://voices.washingtonpost.com/achenblog/2007/12/luckiest_man_alive.html.
10. Ross Douthat, “Huckabee’s Amateur Hour,” Atlantic, December 12, 2007, http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2007/12/huckabees-amateur-hour/55135/.
11. Zev Chafets, “The Huckabee Factor” (Correction Appended), New York Times, December 12, 2007, 9, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/12/magazine/16huckabee.html?pagewanted=9&_r=0.
12. Andrew DeMillo, “Paul Brings Huckabee Critics to Iowa,” USA Today, December 13, 2007, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-12-13-783485599_x.htm.
13. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2015. The audio is available at: “Four Arkansas GOP Legislators Discuss Huckabee on Iowa WHO Radio,” ARRA News Service, December 15, 2007, http://arkansasgopwing.blogspot.com/2007/12/four-arkansas-gop-legislators-discuss.html.
14. Huckabee, personal interview with the author.
15. Ibid.
16. Adam Nagourney, “Thompson Ends Campaign for G.O.P. Nomination,” New York Times, January 22, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/us/politics/23thompson.html.
17. Huckabee, personal interview.
18. Charles Krauthammer, “Losing Ugly,” Washington Post, January 25, 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/24/AR2008012402799.html.
19. Huckabee, personal interview.