Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America (141 page)

70.
“Campaign Notes,”
Washington Post
, September 8, 1980, A4.

71.
John Herbers, “Nixon Views Carter: ‘Shrewd’ with ‘Ruthless' Staff,”
New York Times
, September 8, 1980, B7.

72.
James David Barber, “Worrying About Reagan,”
New York Times
, September 8, 1980, A19.

73.
Douglas E. Kneeland, “Reagan Offers Plan to Cut Taxes, Balance Budget, Restore Defenses,”
New York Times
, September 10, 1980, A1.

74.
“Anderson Feels He Can Retrieve White House for GOP,” Associated Press, January 9, 1980.

75.
Kneeland, “Reagan Offers Plan to Cut Taxes, Balance Budget, Restore Defenses.”

76.
Lou Cannon, “Reagan Scales Down Plan for Patching Up Economy,”
Washington Post
, September 10, 1980, A1.

77.
Kneeland, “Reagan Offers Plan to Cut Taxes, Balance Budget, Restore Defenses.”

78.
Jonathan Fuerbringer, “Key Groups Call Policy 'disastrous,'”
Washington Star
, September 10, 1980, A1.

79.
Allan J. Mayer and Rich Thomas, “Reaganomics, New Version,”
Newsweek
, September 22, 1980, 27.

80.
Terence Smith, “Mondale, Ending 2-Day Tour, Is Pressed to Defend Carter's Stand on Debates,”
New York Times
, September 11, 1980, D18.

81.
Douglas E. Kneeland, “Reagan Presses Carter on Charge of Misleading Nation on Energy,”
New York Times
, September 12, 1980, D14.

82.
Howell Raines, “Reporter's Notebook: Reagan Gropes for Old ‘Magic’ to Reawaken Crowds,”
New York Times
, September 15, 1980, B12.

83.
Judy Bachrach, “Cocaine Adds an Unpleasant Political Twist,”
Washington Star
, September 29, 1980, A4.

84.
Ibid.

85.
Hedrick Smith, “Reagan's Packagers Worry Over Loose Ends,”
New York Times
, September 7, 1980, E2.

86.
Albert R. Hunt, “Reagan Drive Wobbles as Nominee Misspeaks and His Advisers Feud,”
Wall Street Journal
, September 4, 1980, 1.

87.
Jay Perkins, “Bush Says Democrats Trying to Hide Their Record,” Associated Press, September 4, 1980.

88.
Robert Shogan, “Reagan Supporters Believe Blunders Can Be Remedied,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 7, 1980, A16.

89.
Jordan,
Crisis
, 339.

90.
Barry Sussman and Paul Ferber, “Economic Prospects Give Carter Edge,”
Washington Post
, September 14, 1980, A1.

C
HAPTER
31: T
HE
T
ORRENTS
OF
A
UTUMN

1.
James R. Dickenson, “Reagan Assures Aged He Backs Social Security,”
Washington Star
, September 8, 1980, A4.

2.
Jeremiah O'Leary, “Carter Warns Aides of GOP 'distortions,'”
Washington Star
, September 13, 1980, A3.

3.
“Politicians Rate Reagan Ahead in Electoral Battle,”
Washington Star
, September 11, 1980.

4.
Douglas Brew, “Bush Says Foes Deal in ‘Innuendo,’”
Washington Star
, September 12, 1980.

5.
Howell Raines, “Lyn Nofziger: Barometer in Reagan Strategy Shift,”
New York Times
, September 28, 1980, 36.

6.
T. R. Reid, “‘Bowling,’ Candy Part of Ritual on Reagan Campaign Plane,”
Washington Post
, September 20, 1980, A3.

7.
Bill Prochnau, “‘Feeding the Animals,’”
Washington Post
, September 30, 1980, A1.

8.
Donald P. Baker, “TV Reporters with Vice President Seldom Appear on the News Shows,”
Washington Post
, September 30, 1980, A2.

9.
Bill Lauderback, in discussion with the author, August 2, 2006; Gary Hoitsma, in discussion with the author, July 24, 2006.

10.
Terence Smith, “Carter Declares Reagan Is ‘Muzzled’ by Advisers,”
New York Times
, September 16, 1980, B4.

11.
Associated Press, September 10, 1980.

12.
Bernard Gwertzman, “Muskie Discourages Hope That Hostages Will Be Freed Soon,”
New York Times
, September 16, 1980, A1.

13.
Jimmy Carter, in discussion with the author, July 11, 2006.

14.
Martin Tolchin, “Reagan and Others in GOP Vow to Be Unified If They Control Congress,”
New York Times
, September 16, 1980, B4.

15.
Barry Serafin,
World News Tonight Sunday
, ABC News Transcripts, September 15, 1980.

16.
Newt Gingrich, in discussion with the author, May 21, 2006.

17.
Dennis Farney, “‘New Right’ Adherents in Congress Now Play Mainly Defensive Role,”
Wall Street Journal
, September 16, 1980, 1.

18.
James Mann and Sarah A. Peterson, “Preachers in Politics: Decisive Force in '80?”
U. S. News & World Report
, September 15, 1980, 24.

19.
George Skelton, “Reagan Gains with Some Evangelicals,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 17, 1980, B4.

20.
Pat Robertson, “Preachers in Politics,”
U. S. News & World Report
, September 29, 1980, 3.

21.
“Christian Right Equated with Iran's Mullahs,”
Washington Star
, September 24, 1980, A4.

22.
Mann and Peterson, “Preachers in Politics.”

23.
Adam Clymer, “Reagan Viewed in Poll as Leader; Carter Cited on Concern for People,”
New York Times
, September 17, 1980, A1.

24.
Martin Schram, “President Voices Optimism, Muskie Wary on Hostages,”
Washington Post
, September 16, 1980, A1.

25.
Francis X. Clines, “Carter Suggests Turn to Racism in Reagan Views,”
New York Times
, September 17, 1980, B10.

26.
Lyn Nofziger, in discussion with the author.

27.
Michael K. Deaver,
A Different Drummer: My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan
(New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 186.

28.
Martin Schram, “Carter Says Reagan Injects Racism: President Says Reagan Has Injected Hatred and Racism into Campaign,”
Washington Post
, September 17, 1980, A1.

29.
United Press International, “Carter Gets Tip from an Old Foe of Reagan,”
Washington Star
, September 15, 1980, A3.

30.
Eleanor Randolph, “Carter Says Reagan Abets Racial Unrest,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 17, 1980, B19.

31.
Howell Raines, “Reagan Woos the Mexican-Americans,”
New York Times
, September 17, 1980, B10.

32.
Gregory Nokes, “Bush Hits Carter's Comments on Reagan's Civil Rights Record,” Associated Press, September 17, 1980; Steven R. Weisman, “Bush Assails Carter on ‘Ugly Insinuations’ of Racism,”
New York Times
, September 18, 1980, B10.

33.
Harry F. Rosenthal, “Ford Assails Carter Campaign Rhetoric,” Associated Press, September 18, 1980.

34.
Mary McGrory, “Character Isn't Carter's Issue in This Campaign,”
Washington Star
, September 26, 1980, A4.

35.
Hamilton Jordan,
Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency
(New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1982), 343.

36.
T. R. Reid, “Reagan Chastises Carter for No-Show in 1st Debate,”
Washington Post
, September 18, 1980, A5.

37.
“Transcript of the President's News Conference on Foreign and Domestic Matters,”
New York Times
, September 19, 1980, B5.

38.
Terence Smith, “Carter Says He Isn't Terming Reagan Racist,”
New York Times
, September 19, 1980, B4.

39.
Eleanor Randolph and Richard Bergholz, “Carter Denies Suggesting That Reagan Is a Racist,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 19, 1980, B1.

40.
Smith, “Carter Says He Isn't Terming Reagan Racist.”

41.
Randolph and Bergholz, “Carter Denies Suggesting That Reagan Is a Racist.”

42.
Lisa Myers, “President Backs Off ‘Racism,’”
Washington Star
, September 19, 1980, A1.

43.
Associated Press, “Reagan Camp Objects,”
Washington Star
, September 19, 1980.

44.
Lance Gay, “New Carter Ad Campaign Raises Race Charge Again,”
Washington Star
, September 20, 1980, A1.

45.
Adam Clymer, “Carter Campaign Ad Attacked as a ‘Smear,’”
New York Times
, September 21, 1980, 34.

46.
Patrick Caddell, in discussion with the author, May 13, 2009.

47.
Editorial, “Running Mean,”
Washington Post
, September 18, 1980, A18.

48.
James Reston, “What Ails Carter?”
New York Times
, September 21, 1980, E19.

49.
Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover, “Racism Charge Is Risky Ground for President,”
Washington Star
, September 17, 1980, A3.

50.
Reston, “What Ails Carter?”

51.
Hugh Sidey, “More Than a Candidate,”
Time
, September 29, 1980,

52.
Clymer, “Carter Campaign Ad Attacked as a ‘Smear.’”

53.
John H. Averill, “Reagan Accuses Carter of Trying to Hide '81 Deficit,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 20, 1980, A28.

54.
United Press International, “Reagan Aide Hits Carter ‘Mudthrowing,’”
Washington Post
, September 20, 1980, A4.

55.
“Laxalt Calls Carter Hypocrite on Rights,”
Washington Star
, September 20, 1980, A3.

56.
David M. Alpern, Eleanor Clift, Gloria Borger, Thomas M. DeFrank, “And Then There Were Two,”
News-week
, September 22, 1980, 22.

57.
Jack Nelson, “Reagan Backs Legalizing Mexican Aliens, Letting Them Stay as Long as They Want,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 17, 1980, B20.

58.
Howell Raines, “League Eliminates Chair from Debate,”
New York Times
, September 18, 1980, B10.

59.
Felicity Barringer and Dale Russakoff, “Baltimore's 2 Faces: A Stage for the Great Debate, Rubble and Renovation,”
Washington Post
, September 22, 1980, A10.

60.
United Press International, “Public Limited to 100 Seats,”
New York Times
, September 18, 1980, B10.

61.
Associated Press, “Moyers to Be Moderator for First Campaign Debate,”
New York Times
, September 19, 1980, B4.

62.
Jules Witcover, “Two Candidates Differ on Most Issues in Debate,”
Washington Star
, September 22, 1980, A1.

63.
“Transcript of Campaign's First Presidential Debate, with Reagan vs. Anderson,”
New York Times
, September 22, 1980, B6.

64.
David S. Broder, Lou Cannon, Bill Peterson, and Maralee Schwartz, “Debate Shows Rivals'Wide Differences,”
Washington Post
, September 22, 1980, A1.

65.
United Press International, September 27, 1980.

66.
Walter Isaacson, Christopher Ogden, and Douglas Brew, “Throwing High and Inside,”
Time
, September 29, 1980,

67.
Phil Gailey, “New Carter Remarks Keep the Issue Alive,”
Washington Star
, September 24, 1980, A1.

68.
“What's News,”
Wall Street Journal
, September 24, 1980, 1.

69.
Lisa Myers, “Reagan Describes Carter as Liberal ‘McGovernite,’”
Washington Star
, September 23, 1980, A1.

70.
Edward Walsh and Lou Cannon, “Carter Assailed for Depicting a Warlike Reagan,”
Washington Post
, September 24, 1980, A1.

71.
Jack Nelson, “Reagan Upset, Says Carter Implies He's a Warmonger,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 24, 1980, B1.

72.
Walsh and Cannon, “Carter Assailed for Depicting a Warlike Reagan.”

73.
Ibid.

74.
Lisa Myers, “‘Beneath Decency’ Challenger Cries,”
Washington Star
, September 24, 1980, A1.

75.
Associated Press, “Reagan Links Iran-Iraq War to Vacillation by Carter,”
New York Times
, September 25, 1980, B11.

76.
Ibid.

77.
Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover, “Perhaps Carter Should Leave Reagan Alone,”
Washington Star
, September 24, 1980, A3.

78.
McGrory, “Character Isn't Carter's Issue in This Campaign.”

79.
Adam Clymer, “Hostage Issue: The Incumbent's Advantage,”
New York Times
, September 25, 1980, B10.

80.
United Press International, September 28, 1980.

81.
Jordan,
Crisis
, 345.

82.
Donald M. Rothberg, “Reagan Uses Carter ‘Family Suffering Index,’” Associated Press, September 22, 1980.

83.
Lisa Myers, “Reagan Vetoes 2d Debate for Anderson, Hits Carter,”
Washington Star
, September 22, 1980, A4.

84.
United Press International, “Candidate Ronald Reagan Autographs a Cast for a Fan During a Campaign Appearance at Springfield, Mo.,”
Washington Star
, September 25, 1980, A3.

85.
“Reagan the Man Is Easy to Read; the Record Is Not,”
Washington Star
, September 29, 1980, A5.

86.
Alpern et al., “And Then There Were Two.”