19. Shesol, Mutual Contempt, 208.
20. Ibid., 208–9.
21. Humphrey, The Education of a Public Man, 300.
22. Eisele, Almost to the Presidency, 219.
23. Solberg, Hubert Humphrey, 263.
24. Eisele, Almost to the Presidency, 232.
25. Ibid., 224.
26. Solberg, Hubert Humphrey, 284.
27. Ibid., 290; Eisele, Almost to the Presidency, 244.
28. Eisele, Almost to the Presidency, 250.
29. Solberg, Hubert Humphrey, 317–18.
30. Witcover, 85 Days, 28.
31. Witcover, The Year the Dream Died, 102.
32. Ibid., 142.
33. Witcover, 85 Days, 290.
34. Eisele, Almost to the Presidency, 336.
35. Witcover, The Year the Dream Died, 321.
36. Ibid., 360.
37. Ibid., 372.
38. O’Brien, No Final Victories, 259–60.
39. Ibid., 261.
40. Humphrey, The Education of a Public Man, 403.
41. Califano, The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, 325.
42. Witcover, The Year the Dream Died, 380.
43. Clifford, Council to the President, 582.
44. Ibid., 582.
45. Humphrey, The Education of a Public Man, 8–9.
46. Califano, The Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, 426.
47. Lyndon Baines Johnson, The Vantage Point, 437.
39. SPIRO T. AGNEW
1. Witcover, White Knight, 36–43.
2. Ibid., 64–74.
3. Ibid., 103.
4. Ibid., 123.
5. Lucas, Agnew in Conflict, 43.
6. Witcover, White Knight, 157–58.
7. Ibid., 155–56.
8. Ibid., 187.
9. Ibid., 5–6, 199.
10. Ibid., 11–17.
11. Ibid., 26.
12. Witcover, The Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 356.
13. Witcover, White Knight, 234.
14. Ibid., 241.
15. Ibid., 247–63.
16. Ibid., 293.
17. Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, 146.
18. Agnew, Go Quietly … or Else, 32.
19. Witcover, White Knight, 302–3.
20. Ibid., 305.
21. Ibid., 308.
22. Ibid., 311–13.
23. Ibid., 339.
24. Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, 150–52.
25. Ibid., 153.
26. Witcover, White Knight, 405.
27. Ibid., 405–7.
28. Ibid., 407.
29. Witcover, Very Strange Bedfellows, 163.
30. Ibid., 167.
31. Ibid., 179–80.
32. Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, 155.
33. Nixon Tapes, EOB 246–26, July 7, 1971, Nixon Collection, National Archives.
34. Ibid.
35. Nixon Tapes, OVAL 541–2, July 21, 1971, Nixon Collection, National Archives.
36. Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, 154–55, 261.
37. Nixon Tapes, OVAL 576–6, September 18, 1971, Nixon Collection, National Archives.
38. Witcover, Very Strange Bedfellows, 218.
39. Author interview with Patrick Buchanan, McLean, VA, August 15, 2005.
40. Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, 141–42.
41. Cohen and Witcover, A Heartbeat Away, 5.
42. Ibid.
43. Nixon Tapes, Abuse of Power, E–255, 36–92, April 17, 1973, Nixon Collection, National Archives.
44. Ibid., E–257, 38–159, April 25, 1973.
45. Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, 143.
46. Haig, Inner Circles, 353
47. Agnew, Go Quietly … or Else, 103–4.
48. Cohen and Witcover, A Heartbeat Away, 348–50.
49. Nixon, RN, 1005.
50. Agnew, Go Quietly … or Else, 204.
51. Meyer and Schauble, “Agnew’s Fee in Saudi Deal Related in Bankfuptcy Court,” A3.
52. Witcover, Very Strange Bedfellows, 363.
53. Strober and Strober, Nixon, 432.
40. GERALD R. FORD JR.
1. Cannon, Time and Chance, 9.
2. Ibid., 14.
3. Brinkley, Gerald R. Ford, 7.
4. Ibid., 31–38.
5. Ibid., 18.
6. Ford, A Time to Heal, 73.
7. Ibid., 76.
8. Cannon, Time and Chance, 87–88.
9. Hatfield, Vice Presidents of the United States, 495.
10. Ford, A Time to Heal, 85.
11. Ibid., 86.
12. Ibid., 95.
13. Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, 197–98.
14. Brinkley, Gerald R. Ford, 39.
15. Haldeman, The Haldeman Diaries, 504.
16. Brinkley, Gerald R. Ford, 47.
17. Cannon, Time and Chance, 205.
18. Ford, A Time to Heal, 105.
19. Haig, Inner Circles, 419, 427.
20. Witcover, Marathon, 36–37.
21. Ibid., 38.
22. Ibid., 39–40.
23. Hartmann, Palace Politics, 120.
24. Ford, A Time to Heal, 4.
25. Washington Post, “Nixon Resigns,” August 9, 1974.
26. Witcover, Marathon, 41.
27. Ibid., 43.
41. NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER
1. Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, xvii.
2. Ibid., 3.
3. Persico, The Imperial Rockefeller, 28–29.
4. Ibid., 30.
5. Ibid., 31.
6. Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 167–69.
7. Ibid., 103–11.
8. Ibid., 144.
9. Ibid., 174–85.
10. Persico, The Imperial Rockefeller, 34.
11. Ibid., 35–36.
12. Ibid., 36.
13. Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 688.
14. Ibid., 700–726.
15. Ibid., 765.
16. Joe Alex Morris, Nelson Rockefeller, 339.
17. Kramer and Roberts, “I Never Wanted to Be Vice-President of Anything!” 224–27.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid., 233–34.
20. Desmond, Nelson Rockefeller, 287.
21. Kramer and Roberts, “I Never Wanted to be Vice-President of Anything!” 277.
22. Ibid.
23. Witcover, The Resurrection of Richard Nixon, 215.
24. Ibid., 219.
25. Kramer and Roberts, “I Never Wanted to Be Vice-President of Anything!” 368.
26. Ibid., 371.
27. Witcover, Marathon, 47–48.
28. Light, Vice-Presidential Power, 44.
29. Ibid., 45.
30. Kramer and Roberts, “I Never Wanted to Be Vice-President of Anything!” 372–75.
31. Witcover, Marathon, 51–52.
32. Ibid., 54.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid., 55.
35. Ford, A Time to Heal, 328.
36. Cannon, Time and Chance, 407.
37. Witcover, Marathon, 83.
38. Ibid., 83–84.
42. WALTER F. MONDALE
1. Witcover, Marathon, 360–61.
2. Ibid., 365.
3. Ibid.
4. Lewis, Mondale, 34–36.
5. Ibid., 58–64.
6. Witcover, Marathon, 126.
7. Carter, Keeping Faith, 37.
8. Witcover, Marathon, 613.
9. Ibid., 613–14.
10. Ibid., 616.
11. Mondale, The Good Fight, 171.
12. Ibid., 172.
13. Carter, Keeping Faith, 40.
14. Shogan, Promises to Keep, 120.
15. Ibid., 206.
16. Mondale, The Good Fight, 183.
17. Gillon, The Democrats’ Dilemma, 194.
18. Mondale, The Good Fight, 177–81.
19. Ibid., 184–85.
20. Ibid., 186–87.
21. Gillon, The Democrats’ Dilemma, 200.
22. Ibid.
23. Cart
er, Keeping Faith, 370.
24. Mondale, The Good Fight, 205–11.
25. Ibid., 212–13.
26. Ibid., 233–35.
27. Ibid., 236.
28. Ibid., 238.
29. Carter, Keeping Faith, 464.
30. Clymer, Edward M. Kennedy, 299.
31. Ibid., 300.
32. Mondale, The Good Fight, 268.
33. Germond and Witcover, Wake Us When It’s Over, 410.
34. Author telephone interview with Walter Mondale, Minneapolis, February 27, 2013.
35. Germond and Witcover, Wake Us When It’s Over, 533.
43. GEORGE H. W. BUSH
1. Parmet, George Bush, 19.
2. Ibid., 23–24; Bush, Looking Forward, 23–24.
3. Parmet, George Bush, 24; Bush, Looking Forward, 28.
4. Bush, Looking Forward, 22–24; Parmet, George Bush, 24.
5. Bush, Looking Forward, 34–37, Hyams, Flight of the Avenger, 156.
6. Bush, Looking Forward, 79–86.
7. Ibid., 83–89; Naftali, George H. W. Bush, 11.
8. Bush, Looking Forward, 77.
9. Naftali, George H. W. Bush, 15.
10. Ibid., 18–19.
11. Parmet, George Bush, 161.
12. Haig, Inner Circles, 492–93.
13. Germond and Witcover, Blue Smoke and Mirrors, 169.
14. Witcover, Crapshoot, 307.
15. Author interview with Richard Cheney, McLean, VA, March 28, 2013.
16. Author interview with Ronald Reagan, Washington, March 25, 1981; Germond and Witcover, Blue Smoke and Mirrors, 183.
17. Ibid., 187.
18. Reagan, An American Life, 255–56.
19. Parmet, George Bush, 270.
20. Germond and Witcover, Blue Smoke and Mirrors, 326.
21. Witcover, Crapshoot, 326–27.
22. Parmet, George Bush, 281.
23. Witcover, Crapshoot, 329.
24. Green, George Bush, 228.
25. Witcover, Crapshoot, 419.
44. J. DANFORTH QUAYLE
1. Witcover, Crapshoot, 356.
2. Ibid., 361–62.
3. Ibid., 361.
4. Ibid., 365.
5. Ibid., 367–68.
6. Fenno, The Making of a Senator, 7–8.
7. Ibid., 12.
8. Ibid., 18.
9. Ibid., 22.
10. Witcover, Crapshoot, 376.
11. Broder and Woodward, The Man Who Would Be President, 21.
12. Germond and Witcover, Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars?, 386.
13. Quayle, Standing Firm, 9.
14. Germond and Witcover, Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars?, 388.
15. Ibid., 391.
16. Germond and Witcover, Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars?, 395
17. Witcover, Crapshoot, 347–48.
18. Germond and Witcover, Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars?, 440–41.
19. Quayle, Standing Firm, 63.
20. Germond and Witcover, Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars?, 441.
21. Quayle, Standing Firm, 66–67.
22. Witcover, Crapshoot, 380.
23. Ibid., 381–82.
24. Ibid., 383–84.
25. Ibid., 385.
26. Quayle, Standing Firm, 131.
27. Witcover, Crapshoot, 386.
28. Ibid., 387.
29. Quayle, Standing Firm, 138.
30. Powell, My American Journey, 440–44.
31. Witcover, Crapshoot, 388–89.
32. Ibid., 389–90.
33. Quayle, Standing Firm, 196–97.
34. Germond and Witcover, Mad as Hell, 393.
35. Broder and Woodward, The Man Who Would Be President, 125–26.
36. K. J. Cooper, “Divided House Bars Funds for Quayle Competitive Council.” Washington Post, July 2, 1992.
37. Germond and Witcover, Mad as Hell, 395.
38. Ibid.
39. Germond and Witcover, Mad as Hell, 145.
40. Quayle, Standing Firm, 311.
41. Ibid., 400.
42. Germond and Witcover, Mad as Hell, 477.
45. ALBERT A. GORE JR.
1. Maraniss and Nakashima, The Prince of Tennessee, 54.
2. Ibid., 35.
3. Ibid., 106.
4. Ibid., 331–33.
5. Ibid., 383.
6. Turque, Inventing Al Gore, 262.
7. Ibid., 266–68.
8. Ibid., 272–73.
9. Ibid., 274.
10. Witcover, Party of the People, 675.
11. Ibid., 676–77.
12. Turque, Inventing Al Gore, 312–20.
13. Ibid., 322–24.
14. Ibid., 338.
15. Ibid., 348.
16. Ibid., 350.
17. Ibid., 356.
18. Witcover, Party of the People, 700–702.
19. Ibid., 705.
46. RICHARD B. CHENEY
1. Warshaw, The Co-Presidency of Bush and Cheney, 1–2.
2. Hayes, Cheney, 17.
3. Cheney, In My Time, 26.
4. Ibid., 27.
5. Ibid., 28.
6. Ibid., 30.
7. Savage, Takeover, 12.
8. Hayes, Cheney, 43.
9. Cheney, In My Time, 36.
10. Hayes, Cheney, 44.
11. Cheney, In My Time, 41–42.
12. Ibid., 59.
13. Ibid., 92.
14. Ibid.
15. Savage, Takeover, 53–56.
16. Ibid., 60–61.
17. Author interview with Richard Cheney, McLean, VA, March 28, 2013.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Cheney, In My Time, 254–55.
21. Ibid., 256.
22. Barton Gellman, Angler, 1–6.
23. Ibid., 6.
24. Cheney, In My Time, 257–58.
25. Ibid., 259.
26. Hayes, Cheney, 281.
27. Gellman, Angler, 7.
28. U.S. Constitution Amendment XXV, Section 4.
29. Cheney, In My Time, 320–22.
30. Gellman, Angler, 89.
31. Ibid., 92–93.
32. Ibid., 98.
33. Ibid., 104–7.
34. Cheney, In My Time, 318.
35. Gellman, Angler, 110.
36. Cheney, In My Time, 318–19; Gellman, Angler, 112.
37. Cheney, In My Time, 3.
38. Gellman, Angler, 120.
39. Cheney, In My Time, 3; Gellman, Angler, 124–25.
40. Cheney, In My Time, 334.
41. Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, 138; Warshaw, The Co-Presidency of Bush and Cheney, 161–62.
42. Cheney, In My Time, 335.
43. Gellman, Angler, 132.
44. Ibid., 135.
45. Ibid., 164–66.
46. Ibid., 176.
47. Savage, Takeover, 155.
48. Ibid., 393.
49. Cheney, In My Time, 402.
50. Savage, Takeover, 182, 219; Associated Press interview, September 8, 2005.
51. Savage, Takeover, 163.
52. Ibid., 163–65.
53. Ibid., 410.
54. Author interview with Richard Cheney, McLean, VA, March 28, 2013.
55. Cheney, In My Time, 408.
56. Gellman, Angler, 363.
57. Author interview with Richard Cheney, McLean, VA, March 28, 2013.
58. Cheney, In My Time, 418.
59. Savage, Takeover, 430.
60. Gellman, Angler, 329.
61. Cheney, In My Time, 434.
62. Gellman, Angler, 377.
47. JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.
1. Wilmington News Journal, April 12, 2008.
2. Newsweek, November 13, 2008.
3. Ibid.
4. Author interview with Vice President Biden, Greenville, DE, December 21, 2009.
5. Biden, Promises to Keep, xi–xvi, 3–4, 9–11, 20–23.
6. Ibid., 24–34.
7. Ibid., 36–38.
8. Witcover, J
oe Biden, 48–50.
9. Dallas Morning News, April 23, 1908, reprint of 1987 profile.
10. Wilmington News Journal, January 6, 1973.
11. Wilmington News Journal, August 13, 1980.
12. Witcover, Joe Biden, 215.
13. President George Bush, news conference, Kennebunkport, Maine, July 1, 1991.
14. Witcover, Joe Biden, 270; Senate Judiciary Committee, First Session, part 4, 5.
15. Witcover, Joe Biden, 273.
16. Ibid., 344.
17. Lott, Herding Cats, 238–41.
18. Witcover, Joe Biden, 347.
19. Author interview with Biden, December 21, 2009.
20. CNN, August 12, 2003.
21. Witcover, Joe Biden, 386.
22. Wilmington News Journal, January 5, 2008.
23. New Yorker, October 13, 2008.
24. Author interview with David Plouffe, Washington, December 7, 2009.
25. Boston Globe, August 24, 2008.
26. Biden, acceptance speech, Democratic National Convention, Denver, August, 27, 2008.
27. Heilemann and Halperin, Game Change, 413–14, 419.
28. President Barack Obama, e-mail response to written interview questions, March 1, 2010.
29. White House Press Office, February 7, 2009.
30. CNN, April 4, 2009.
31. Alter, The Promise, 389.
32. President Obama, e-mail response to written interview questions, March 1, 2010.
33. Author interview with Bruce Reed, Biden chief of staff, Washington, December 18, 2012.
34. Author interview with Biden, Washington, April 5, 2013.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
48. THE EVOLVING ASSISTANT PRESIDENCY
1. Nathan Miller, Theodore Roosevelt, 342.
2. Witcover, Crapshoot, 404.
3. Author interview with George S. McGovern, Washington, 1973; Witcover, Crapshoot, 414.
4. Author telephone interview with Walter Mondale, Minneapolis, February 27, 2013.
5. Author interview with Gerald Ford, Washington, 1977.
6. Witcover, Crapshoot, 399.
7. Nelson, A Heartbeat Away, 45, 8.
8. Witcover, Crapshoot, 400.
9. Author interview with Joe Biden, Washington, April 5, 2013.
10. Author interview with Ford, Washington, 1977.
11. Author interview with Dick Cheney, McLean, VA, March 19, 2013.
12. Author interview with Biden, April 5, 2013.
13. Ibid.
14. Author interview with Ford, 1977.
15. Author telephone interview with Mondale, February 27, 2013.
16. Author interview with Cheney, March 19, 2013.
17. Author telephone interview with Mondale, February 27, 2013.
18. Ibid.
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