Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America (126 page)

25.
Bergholz, “N.H.Voting in Presidential Primary Today.”

26.
Donald M. Rothberg, Associated Press, February 26, 1980.

27.
David Nyhan, “Reagan's Mr. Inside in N.H.,”
Boston Globe
, February 28, 1980, 1.

28.
E. J. Dionne Jr., “Bush Viewed as Above Faction Fights,”
New York Times
, February 26, 1980, B11.

29.
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “Reagan's Solid Base,”
Washington Post
, February 25, 1980, A23.

30.
Jerry Harkavy, Associated Press, “Dixville Notch: Bush, Reagan Tie,”
Nashua
(NH)
Telegraph
, February 26, 1980, 1.

31.
Associated Press, “Turnout Mixed in New Hampshire Vote,”
Washington Star
, February 26, 1980, 1.

32.
Ibid.

33.
James R. Dickenson, “Vote to Show Whether Reagan Can Regain His Frontrunner Status,”
Washington Star
, February 24, 1980.

34.
Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover, “Insiders Think Bush Soon Can Lock Up Lead,”
Washington Star
, February 21, 1980, A1.

35.
Stephen Doig, “Poll: Bush Leading Reagan in South,”
Miami Herald
, February 25, 1980, 23A.

36.
Francis X. Clines, “New Hampshire Hears the Final Vows,”
New York Times
, February 26, 1980, A1.

37.
Editorial, “Mr. Sears' Masterful Stroke,”
Nashua
(NH)
Telegraph
, February 26, 1980, 5.

38.
Associated Press, February 27, 1980.

39.
Lou Cannon, “Bush, Reagan Even as New Hampshire Finish Line Nears,”
Washington Post
, February 25, 1980, A2.

40.
Chris Black, “Voter Turnout Sets a Record,”
Boston Globe
, February 27, 1980, 1

41.
Broder, “Dramatic Reversal of Fortune.”

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.

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HAPTER
11: U
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ANAGEMENT

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.