Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America (127 page)

37.
David Wald, “GOP Mails Ford Fund Pitch Amid Heavy Betting He'll Declare,”
Newark
(NJ)
Star-Ledger
, March 7, 1980, 7.

38.
Tom Raum, “The Selling of the GOP,” Associated Press, January 29, 1980.

39.
Hedrick Smith, “Ousted Reagan Aide Shuns Baker's Bid,”
New York Times
, February 29, 1980, B5.

40.
Margot Hornblower, “Sears Details 'disorder' in Reagan Camp,”
Washington Post
, February 29, 1980, A1.

41.
Ibid.

42.
Tom Raum, “Former Reagan Aides Say They Were Fired,” Associated Press, February 28, 1980.

43.
Paul Houston and Carol Blue, “Reagan Fired Them, 3 Top Aides Say,”
Los Angeles Times
, February 29, 1980, B25.

44.
Charles R. Black, in discussion with the author.

45.
Hornblower, “Sears Details 'disorder.'”

46.
John Sears, in discussion with the author, July 26, 2006.

47.
Ibid.

48.
Richard Bergholz, “GOP Candidates Swap Barbs in Debate in South,”
Los Angeles Times
, February 29, 1980, B1.

49.
Ibid.

50.
Associated Press, February 29, 1980.

51.
Ibid.

52.
Associated Press, “Newspaper Polls Show Kennedy and Bush Leading in Massachusetts,” February 11, 1980.

53.
Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover, “Reagan Closing Up on Bush in Massachusetts,”
Washington Star
, February 29, 1980; Ron Kaufman, in discussion with the author, August 25, 2006.

54.
Ron Kaufman, in discussion with the author, August 25, 2006.

55.
Ibid.

56.
Bernard Weinraub, “Kennedy and Bush Face Key Tests Tuesday in Massachusetts Primaries,”
New York Times
, February 29, 1980, B5.

57.
Ibid.

58.
Adam Clymer, “Triumph by Reagan Stirs Fears of Shift to the Right,”
New York Times
, February 28, 1980, A19.

59.
Loye Miller Jr., Newhouse News Service, “Primary Victors Still Face Tough Road,”
Newark
(NJ)
Star Ledger
, February 28, 1980, 1.

60.
David Keene, in discussion with the author.

61.
William K. Stevens, “Texas and California Are Forging a New Axis of Power for the '80s,”
New York Times
, February 29, 1980, A1.

62.
Arlen J. Large, “Complex Arithmetic: As Census Nears, Issues of Compliance, Aliens, and Adjusting for Undercount Bedevil Bureau,”
Wall Street Journal
, February 27, 1980, 48.

63.
United Press International, “House OKs Aid to Nicaragua,”
Boston Globe
, February 28, 1980, 6.

64.
Ellen Hume, “Bush Assails Reagan Views on A-Waste,”
Los Angeles Times
, March 2, 1980, A26.

65.
Jules Witcover, “Reagan Challenges Ford to Enter Primary Race,”
Washington Star
, March 3, 1980, A1.

66.
David S. Broder, “Bush Aims to Fling More Zings at Reagan,”
Washington Post
, March 1, 1980, A2.

67.
Bill Peterson and David S. Broder, “Reagan Criticizes Bush for ‘Bland Generalities,’”
Washington Post
, March 2 1980, A2.

68.
Sara Rimer, “Politicians Snarl Over Lowliest Job,”
Miami Herald
, March 2, 1980, 1A.

69.
Ibid.

70.
Ibid.

C
HAPTER
12: F
ORD
T
EES
O
FF

1.
Lou Cannon, “Kennedy and Reagan: Grinning and Bearing a Lot,”
Washington Post
, March 2, 1980, A4.

2.
Ibid.

3.
United Press International, “Massachusetts Poll Has Bush, Reagan Dead Even,”
State
(SC), March 2, 1980, 12A.

4.
F. Richard Ciccone, “Forget Moral Victories, Massachusetts Counts,”
Chicago Tribune
, March 2, 1980, 12.

5.
David S. Broder, “Kennedy, Bush Campaigns on Line in Massachusetts,”
Washington Post
, March 3, 1980, A1.

6.
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “A Get-Tough George Bush?”
Washington Post
, March 3, 1980, A23.

7.
Lou Cannon, “Anderson Battles 2-Man GOP Race Idea,”
Washington Post
, February 14, 1980, A2.

8.
Elizabeth Rathbun, “John Anderson: ‘There Is Something Different About Me,’”
Miami Herald
, March 4, 1980, 12A.

9.
United Press International, “Massachusetts Poll Has Bush, Reagan Dead Even,”
State
(SC), March 2, 1980, 12A.

10.
James M. Perry, “Connally Woos Voters in South Carolina, His Last Stand, with Help of Thurmond,”
Wall Street Journal
, March 3, 1980, 8.

11.
Bill Peterson, “Reagan Keeps Clean While Bush, Connally Sling Mud in S. C. Race,”
Washington Post
, March 5, 1980, A9.

12.
United Press International, “Texans' Camps Slugging It Out,”
Miami Herald
, March 5, 1980, 10A.

13.
Tony Fuller, “Connally's Bitter End,”
Newsweek
, March 24, 1980, 37.

14.
F. Richard Ciccone, “Kennedy Trailing Badly Here,”
Chicago Tribune
, March 2, 1980, 1.

15.
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, “Job Performance Ratings for President Carter,” University of Connecticut,
http://webapps.ropercenter.uconn.edu/CFIDE/roper/presidential/webroot/presidential_rating_detail.cfm?allRate=True&presidentName=Carter
.

16.
“Carter's Popularity Still Falling as Economy Gets More Attention,”
Miami Herald
, March 6, 1980, 24A.

17.
United Press International, “Reagan Calls U.N. Shift ‘Preposterous Situation,’”
New York Times
, March 9, 1980, 34.

18.
Aaron Epstein, “Ted: Was U.N. Blunder ‘Calculated’?”
Miami Herald
, March 11, 1980, 13A.

19.
Barbara Walters,
World News Tonight
, ABC News Transcripts, March 5, 1980.

20.
Adam Clymer, “Ford Declares Reagan Can't Win; Invites G.O.P. to Ask Him to Run,”
New York Times
, March 2, 1980, 1.

21.
Jules Witcover, “Reagan Challenges Ford to Enter Primary Races,”
Washington Star
, March 3, 1980, A1.

22.
Tom Wicker, “The Ford Shadow,”
New York Times
, March 7, 1980, A27; Peter Goldman, James Doyle, Thomas M. DeFrank, Gloria Borger, Stryker McGuire, Martin Kasindorf, and Tony Fuller, “Ford vs. Reagan Again?”
Newsweek
, March 17, 1980, 33.

23.
“Ford Is Put on Ballot in Maryland,”
New York Times
, March 4, 1980, B9; Adam Clymer, “35 Delegate Candidates in Illinois Switch From Baker Drive to Ford,”
New York Times
, March 10, 1980, B10.

24.
“Bush Says No One Will ‘Roll Over,’”
New York Times
, March 3, 1980, D9; Hedrick Smith, “Baker Out of Race; Pressures Increase for Entry by Ford,”
New York Times
, March 6, 1980, A1.

25.
Thomas M. DeFrank,
Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford
(New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2007), 110.

26.
Russell Chandler, “‘Christian Voice’ Political Action Group Plans Massive Drive on Reagan's Behalf,”
Los Angeles Times
, March 6, 1980, 10.

27.
Herb Frazier, “Bush Says Position Distorted,”
State
(SC), March 8, 1980, 1A.

28.
Mike Clements, “Reagan's ‘Express’ Tours S. C.,”
State
(SC), March 7, 1980, 1A.

29.
Mike Clements, “Confident Reagan Expects Victories Across South,”
State
(SC), March 8, 1980, 1A.

30.
John Herbers, “Record Massachusetts Vote Is Seen Today in First Large-State Primary,”
New York Times
, March 4, 1980, A1.

31.
Associated Press, “Baker Quits; Ford Says Even Chance He Will Start,” March 5, 1980.

32.
Mike Feinsilber, “Bush Happy with New England Vote,” Associated Press, March 5, 1980.

33.
Dan Balz, T. R. Reid, and Joseph A. O'Brien, “John B.Anderson: 12 Years on the Road to Discovery,”
Washington Post
, March 6, 1980, A3.

34.
“Delegate Tally,”
Miami Herald
, March 6, 1980, 16A.

35.
Tom Fiedler and William J. Mitchell, “Bush Aims at Reagan in Florida After Tiny Massachusetts Victory,”
Miami Herald
, March 6, 1980, A21.

36.
“Baker Quits; Ford Says Even Chance He Will Start,” Associated Press, March 5, 1980.

37.
“Delegate Tally,”
Miami Herald
, March 6, 1980.

38.
Tom Fiedler, “Bush Will Step Up Attacks on Reagan,”
Miami Herald
, March 7, 1980, 18A.

39.
Tom Fiedler, “Bush Pulls His Punches at Reagan,”
Miami Herald
, March 8, 1980, 16A.

40.
Sara Rimer, “Ford Plays Cool at College: No, Not Yet—but Maybe,”
Miami Herald
, March 7, 1980, 17A.

41.
Dennis A. Williams, Thomas M. DeFrank, and Martin Kasindorf, “The GOP's Hamlet,”
Newsweek
, March 10, 1980, 28.

42.
Rimer, “Ford Plays Cool at College.”

43.
Adam Clymer, “Ford Supporters Organize Group to Spur a Draft,”
New York Times
, March 7, 1980, A1; Adam Clymer, “2 Major Issues Raised in Ford's Potential Candidacy,”
New York Times
, March 8, 1980, 9.

44.
David Keene, in discussion with the author, November 18, 2007.

45.
David S. Broder, Bill Peterson, Martin Schram, Lou Cannon, Dan Balz, and Maralee Schwartz, “GOP Game: Will Ford Deal Himself In?”
Washington Post
, March 6, 1980, A4.

46.
Clymer, “2 Major Issues Raised.”

47.
Bob Fick, “Dole Pulls Out of South Carolina Primary,” Associated Press, February 27, 1980.

48.
Clymer, “2 Major Issues Raised.”

49.
“Kissinger Urges Ford to Join the Presidential Race,”
New York Times
, March 9, 1980, 34.

50.
“Kissinger Urges Ford to Enter Race,”
Miami Herald
, March 9, 1980, 20A.

51.
Williams, DeFrank, and Kasindorf, “The GOP's Hamlet.”

52.
Bill Roeder, “Jerry Ford Would Reappoint Kissinger,”
Newsweek
, March 10, 1980, 23; Associated Press, “Ford Opens Door to Candidacy,”
Burlington
(VT)
Free Press
, March 3, 1980, 1A.

53.
Adam Clymer, “Ford Supporters Organize Group to Spur a Draft,”
New York Times
, March 7, 1980, A1.

54.
Max Robinson,
World News Tonight
, ABC News Transcripts, March 7, 1980.

55.
Associated Press, “Ford Is Moving to a Candidacy as Groundswell Grows,”
Newark
(NJ)
Star-Ledger
, March 7, 1980, 1.

56.
Martin Schram and David S. Broder, “Prospective Candidacy Muted,”
Washington Post
, March 14, 1980, A1; Robert M. Andrews, “Ford Claims Broad Support to Enter GOP Race,” Associated Press, March 6, 1980; Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover, “Ford's Advisers Test Waters for Expected Entry,”
Washington Star
, March 11, 1980.

57.
David Keene, in discussion with the author, October 4, 2007.

58.
Ibid.

59.
Associated Press, “Ford Is Moving to a Candidacy.”

60.
“Reagan Returns Barb for Ford's Putdown,”
Newark
(NJ)
Star-Ledger
, March 3, 1980.

61.
“Kennedy, Bush Take Last Swipes at Carter Before Today's Vote,”
Miami Herald
, March 4, 1980, 12A.

62.
Tom Fiedler, “Ford to Run Again, Ex-Aide Reed Says,”
Miami Herald
, March 8, 1980, 16A.

63.
David Hoffman, “Optimistic Reagan Keeps Watchful Eye on Ford,”
Miami Herald
, March 11, 1980, 14A.

64.
Hedrick Smith, “Reagan Victorious in South Carolina by Decisive Margin,”
New York Times
, March 9, 1980, 1.

65.
Smith, “Reagan Victorious.”

66.
Bill Peterson, Jack Bass, Lou Cannon, and Martin Schram, “Reagan Crushes Connally, Bush in S. C.,”
Washington Post
, March 9, 1980, A1.

67.
Ellen Hume, “Connally Goes Home to ‘Reassess’ Campaign,”
Los Angeles Times
, March 9, 1980, A18.

68.
Bill Peterson and Tom Curtis, “The Best Roadshow in Politics Ends,”
Washington Post
, March 10, 1980, A1.

69.
Linda Kuntz Logan, United Press International, “Connally Describes Himself,”
State
(SC), March 5, 1980, B1.

70.
Patrick Riordan, “Connally's Big Purse Spent on ‘Junk Food,’”
Miami Herald
, March 11, 1980, 15A.

71.
Bill Peterson and Tom Curtis, “The Best Roadshow in Politics Ends,”
Washington Post
, March 10, 1980, A1.

72.
Bill Peterson, “Reagan Keeps Clean While Bush, Connally Sling Mud in S. C. Race,”
Washington Post
, March 5, 1980, A9.

73.
Associated Press, “Reagan Routs Foes in S. C. Vote,”
Montgomery
(AL)
Advertiser
, March 9, 1980, 1A.

74.
Frank Blanchard, “Reagan, Bush Said Close; Carter Leading Demos,”
Montgomery
(AL)
Advertiser
, March 4, 1980, 1.