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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The President had declared Friday, September 14, 2001, a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance. He and the First Lady joined former Presidents Clinton, Bush, Carter, and Ford and their wives, as well as members of Congress, the U.S. Senate, the Cabinet, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Washington National Cathedral to honor the memory of the 9/11 victims and the families who had lost so much.

Security was formidable that morning and only those with tickets were allowed inside. I arrived at 10:45 a.m. with a green ticket distributed to family members of the Cathedral Boy and Girl Choristers. My wonderful next-door neighbor Peter Gilchrist, who sang in the choir, had given me one of his tickets, which placed me a few feet away from the pews of the Presidents. Next to me was the Reverend Patricia Johnson, whose son was also a chorister. We sat down together as strangers and departed as friends. She is tall, black, and elegant; I am the opposite, but we had no barriers stronger than our need to feel human and hopeful again after three days of shock and trauma. There were no Republicans or Democrats in the Cathedral that day, only grieving Americans in need of succor.

As the President walked across the marble floor of the main altar to ascend the lectern, Patricia and I instinctively grasped hands, like anxious mothers, hoping for a flawless performance from a child who has frequent pratfalls. The President rose to the occasion and spoke well as he offered the families of 9/11 the nation’s sympathy, but he startled many of the three thousand people assembled when he began to mix patriotism with religion and declared that ridding the world of evil was the country’s “responsibility to history.” As he returned to his seat, he passed the Rev. Billy Graham and affectionately patted the elderly man’s shoulder. When Bush sat down, his father, George Herbert Walker Bush, reached over and squeezed his hand as if to say, “You did well.”

I tried to remember the President’s words about a “responsibility to history” as I researched this book on his family, and I sought the assistance of many people to fulfill that responsibility. I’m indebted to all, especially the librarians, curators, and archivists who helped me in compiling the family’s ancestral background and provided access to the unpublished letters, records, documents, and diaries I needed to tell the family’s story. I’m extraordinarily grateful for the scholarly research of Ellen Walker, Ruth Quattlebaum, Tana Sherman, Timothy Sprattler, and Lynda V. Diamondis: Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; Tom Conroy: Yale Public Affairs; William R. Massa Jr. and Diane Kaplan: Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University; Angelyn Singer and Christine Baird: Alumni Records, Yale University; Jessica He, research assistant for Professor Douglas Rae, Yale School of Management; Fred Romanski, Barry L. Zerby, and Pat Anderson: National Archives and Records in College Park, Maryland; Lisa Gezelter, archivist: National Archive in Pacific Region (Laguna Niguel); Research staff: Ohio Historical Society; Barbara Reed: FACT Line, Columbus Public Schools, Ohio; Doug McCabe: Ohio University Library, Athens, Ohio; Donald A. Ritchie, associate historian, and Betty K. Koed: U.S. Senate; Suzanne Callison Dicks: U.S. Capitol Historical Society; American Institute for Economic Research; Ruth Ann Rugg: Sixth Floor Museum, Dallas, Texas; Barbie Selby and Gary Treadway: University of Virginia Law Library, Charlottesville, Virginia; Anthony Sgro: Woodberry Forest School, Orange, Virginia; Kathryn Stallard and John G. Tower, archivists: Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas; Gregory H. Stoner and Toni M. Carter: Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia; Jason D. Stratman: Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis; Towana D. Spivey, director: Fort Sill National Historical Landmark, Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Aulene Gibson: Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society; Richard Spiers, superintendent: Hope Cemetery, Kennebunkport, Maine; Barbara Barwise: Kennebunkport Historical Society; Betty Austin, archivist: Fulbright Papers, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas; Monica Blank and Amy Fitch, archivists: Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York; Caroline Bradley: Westerly Public Library, Westerly, Rhode Island; Virginia Buchanan: Smith County Historical Society, Tyler, Texas; Richard M. Bulatoff: Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University; Steve Charter: Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio; Deneen Carter: Franklin County Probate Court, Columbus, Ohio; Mary M. Huth and Sarah DeSanctis: Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, New York; John G. Doll: Gilbert Y. Taverner Archives, St. George’s School, Newport, Rhode Island; Jules J. Duga: Columbus Jewish Historical Society, Ohio; Megan Hahn Fraser: New-York Historical Society, New York, New York; The Honorable George Mitchell and Ian Graham: Special Collections, Bowdoin University, Brunswick, Maine; Sarah Hartwell: Rauner Special Collections, Dartmouth University, Hanover, New Hampshire; Alexander Sanger, Esther Katz, and Cathy Moran Hajo: Margaret Sanger Papers Project, New York University, New York, New York; Lianne Hartman: Bently Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Cory Hatch and Jared Jackson: Arizona Historical Foundation, Tempe, Arizona; John Neal Hoover, librarian: St. Louis Mercantile Library; Noel C. Hollabeck: St. Louis Public Library; Karen Mason, curator: Iowa Women’s Archive, University of Iowa; Kirsten Jensen, archivist: Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut; Kristine Krueger: National Film Information Service, Center for Motion Picture Study, Beverly Hills, California; Bonnie Linck: Connecticut State Library; Barbara Lowden, Assistant Registrar: Vital Statistics, Greenwich, Connecticut; Ryan Hendrickson: Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University, Massachusetts; Kristen J. Nyitray: special collections, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Kathy Ogden: Greenwich Oral History Project, Connecticut; Michael V. Lynch, registrar: vital statistics, New Haven, Connecticut; Mary K. Moore: Bohemian Grove Action Network, Occidental, California; Ken Marder: Silas Bronson Library, Waterbury, Connecticut; Keith Stretcher, City Attorney: City of Midland, Texas; Greg Platts: Alfalfa Club, Washington, D.C.; Marta Ross Dunetz, archivist: St. Albans School, Washington, D.C.

Many presidential archivists contributed to the research and I’m grateful to all: Lynn Smith: Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, Iowa; Raymond Teichman: FDR Presidential Library, Hyde Park, New York; Dennis E. Bilger: Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri; David J. Haight, Dwight Strandberg, and Hazel Stitt: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas; Staff: John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts; Claudia Anderson, Mary K. Knill, and Linda M. Seelke: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, Texas; Dimitri K. Simes, president: The Nixon Center, Washington, D.C.; Susan Naulty, archivist: Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace, Yorba Linda, California; Leigh Dale, Stacy Davis, Geir Gundersen, Kenneth G. Hafeli, and Donna Lehman: Gerald R. Ford Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Albert Nason: Jimmy Carter Library, Atlanta, Georgia; Jennifer Sternaman, archivist: Ronald Reagan Library, Simi Valley, California; Laura Spencer, Bonnie Burlbaw, Debbie Carter, R. Matthew Lee, Stephanie Oriabure and Deborah Wheeler: George Bush Presidential Library, College Station, Texas.

My thanks to the newspaper and magazine librarians who helped retrieve what was not available online: Press Association of the U.K.; Joshua Balling, managing editor,
The Inquirer and Mirror
, Nantucket, Massachusetts; Carolyn McClintock,
LA Weekly
; Cam Willis at
D
magazine; Susan Butler,
Portland Press Herald
; Merle Thomason, Fairchild Library, Pasadena, California; Dick Weiss,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
; Jeanette Dean,
Los Angeles Times
; Marie Deitch, librarian,
Greenwich Time
; Kathy McKula,
Hartford Courant
; Dina Modianot-Fox,
Greenwich Magazine
; and Andrea Murphy,
American Heritage.

Many people helped me during the four years I worked on this book. While I cannot acknowlege all 937 people I spoke with, I am grateful for their contributions. My thanks to: Rudy Abramson, Herbert and Lois Abrams, David Acheson, Cindy Adams, Peggy Adler, Philip Agee, Lola Aiken, Miriam Ain, Leyla Aker, Linda Aker, Edward Albee, Marcia Alcorn, Janice and Steve Allen, Margaret Alton and Tom Weisser, Kathleen Ambrose, Robert Sam Anson, Steve Arbeit, Dickie Arbiter, Elizabeth A. Archer, Thomas J. Ashley Jr., Rick Atkinson, Doug Bailey, Pat Bailey, Earl Balfour, Tom Bannon, Mike Barnicle, Richard Barrett, Susan Barron, Anita Bartholomew, Charles Bartlett, Ysaye Maria Barnwell, Roberta Baskin, Patrick Beach, Betty Beale, Barry Bearak, Paul Bedard, Sarah Witham Bednarz, Susan Bennett, Michelle Berman, Lynne Bernabei, Susan Biddle, Sonja Bjelland, Ann Biraben, Alex Mayes Birnbaum, Laura Blaustein, Nathan Blumberg, Sidney Blumenthal, John Bollinger, John Brady, Ralph Braibanti, Richard Breitman, David Brock, Charles Brown, Sally Brown (Mrs. Thatcher III), Bruce Buchanan, Martha Buchanan, Carol Buckland, Cathy Burka, Joyce Burland, Iris Burnett, Elizabeth Burr, Kenneth David Burrows, Sharon Bush, Justin Butcher, Christopher Byron, Connie Collins Cain, Jean Calhoun, Courtney Callahan, Margaret Carlson, Peter Carlson, Robert Caro, Dam Carol, Don Carr, Demaris Carroll, David Challinord, Dolly Langdon Chapin, Isolde Chapin, Bill Chaput, Pat Choate, Michael Cieply, Mary Higgins Clark, Richard Claude, Eleanor Clift, Alexander Cockburn, Andrew Cockburn, Leslie Cockburn, William Sloane Coffin, David Cogan, Lou Colasuonno, Joe Conason, Sydney “Terry” Cone, David Corn, David Crossland, Page Crossland, Julie Currie, Rick Curry, S.J., Robert Dallek, Tom D’Amore, Sam Dash, John Davidson, John Claiborne Davis, Osborne Day, June DeHart, Sally Denton, Stephanie deSibour, Betsy Trippe DeVecchi, Robert DeVecchi, Mary Devlin, Alex Dickie Jr., Mollie Dickenson, Kathleen Dillon, Ymelda Dixon, Byron Dobell, Ariel Dockerty, Jack Doll, Pier Dominquez, Jim Donovan, Michael Dorman, Jenna Dorn, Bob Dotchin, Virginia Douglas, Conway “Doc” Downing, Molly and George Downing, Brian Doyle, Roberta Hornig Draper, Pam Droog, Joseph Duffey, Robert W. Duffy, Indiana Earl, Nadine Eckhardt, Robert J. Edgeworth, Maureen Egan, Sara Ehrman, Daniel and Marina Ein, Albert Eisele, Donna M. Eller, Rayna G. Eller, Dave Elliott, Kim Elliott, Daniel Ellsberg, Roy Elson, Allison Engel, Lionel Epstein, Sally Eskew, Michael Evans, Mrs. Lawrence J. Evaristo, Peter and Pamela Evans, Penny Farthing, Allen Ferguson, Geraldine Ferraro, Robert Fink, Howard Fineman, David Fink, Harry Finkenstaedt, Jim Finkenstaedt, Gerry Fitzgerald, Roland Flamini, Heather Foley, Thomas S. Foley, Bitsey Folger, Jane Fonda, Allan Fotheringham, Barney Frank, Toby Frankel, Roberta Fulbright Foote, Elizabeth Friedsam, Harriet M. Fulbright, Len Funk, Bob Gardner, Ann Geracimos, Ann Gerber, Robin Gerber, Elbridge Gerry, Doug Giebel, Kenneth Gilpin, Ruth Gilson, Todd Gitlin, Vivian Glick, Robert A. Glick, Lynn Goddess, Paul Goldberg, Bonnie Goldstein, Richard Gooding, Suzkie Gookin, John Goerman, Sarah Gorman, Phillip Grace, Jim Grady, Susan Granger, Ellsworth Grant, Carol Taylor Gray, Bobbie Greene, Wayne Greenhaw, Ralph Grogan, Lloyd Grove, Tammy Haddad, Margaret Hall, Ralph Hallow, Mary Hall-Ries, Kent Hance, Joyce Harris, Richard Hart, Charles Hartman, William Hathaway, Lester Hyman, Richard Helms, Lois Herbert, Seymour Hersh, Stephen Hess, John Hicket, William Hildenbrand, Cragg Hines, Randy Hobler, Elizabeth W. Holden, Tony Holden, Pat Holt, Ellen Horan, Marne Hornblower, Sandy Horwitt, Jay Houston, Janet Howard, Joseph Howerton, Richard M. Huber, Cather Bell Hudson, Edith Hunter, Lester S. Hyman, Aubrey Irby, Michael Isikoff, Molly Ivins, Beverly Jackson, Matt Jacob, John C. Jansing, Marian Javits, Ken Jennings, J. Milburn “Kim” Jessup, Tom Johnson, Erica Jong, Carol Ross Joynt, Geoffrey Kabaservice, Marvin Kalb, Louis J. Kaposta, Steve Katz, Martin Kasindorf, Barbara Kellerman, Charles Kelly, David Hume Kennerly, Michael Kernan, Martha Kessler, Kathy Kiley, James J. Kilpatrick, Richard Kimball Jr., Susan King, Worth Kinlaw, Jill Kirkpatrick, Gerrit Kouwenhoven, Donna Kullberg, Mark Lackritz, Joseph Laitin, Judy Lang, Nelson D. Lankford, Carla Langjahr, Kitty Lansdale, Christopher Larsen, Jim Latimer, Dianne Laughlin, Jenny Lawrence, Jack Leachman, Jay Lefkowitz, Nicholas Lemann, Ann Lenore, Robert Lenzner, Terry Lenzner, Zach Leonard, Larry Lewin, Nancy Lewinsohn, Charles Lewis, Randy and Pat Lewis, R.W.B. Lewis, Stephanie Lilley, Jack Limpert, Aura Lippincott, Juliet Lloyd, Laura Liswood, John Loftus, Joseph Lopez, Claus Lutterbeck, Thomas Lynch, Suzanne Jones Maas, Torbert Macdonald, Ian MacLaughlin, Isabel Maddux, Stephen Maitland-Lewis, Emily Malino, Julia Malone, Charles Marshall, Sheryl Marshall, John Mashek, Kathleen Matthews, Jane Mayer, Bob McAllister, Jerry McCoy, Sandra McElwaine, Kyle McEnearney, Floretta Dukes McKenzie, Phyllis McKenzie, Lucie McKinney, Harry McPherson, William McPherson, Howard Means, Marianne Means, Elizabeth Mehren, Phillip Merrill, Albert S. Messina, Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, Zoe and Abner Mikva, Leslie Milk, William Millburn, John Mintz, George J. Mitchell, Roger Molander, John Monjo, Jonathan A. Moore, Anthony A, Morano, Jason Morano, Jefferson Morley, Barbara and David Morowitz, Celia Morris, Dick Morris, David Mortimer, Herb Moses, Mary Mueller, Bill Moyers, Diego Mulligan, John H. Napier, Robert Nash, Simon Nathan, Kevin Nealon, Ralph Neas, Judy Nelson, David Newscom, Jesse Nichols, Peggy Noonan, Alf Nucifora, Michael Nussbaum, Marylouise Oates, Frank “Junie” O’Brien, Ginny Oler, Deborah Orin, Betsy Osborne, Curtis Owne, Susan Page, William S. Paley Jr., Stephen Pauley, Jan Paulk, Pamela Peabody, Bill Penrose, Ann Peretz, Martin Peretz, Marjorie Perloff, Jost Pollek, Victoria Pope, Jennifer Porter, E. Barrett Prettyman, Raymond Price, Ann Pritchard, Ellen Proxmire, Fred Purdy, Donnie Radcliffe, Douglas Rae, George Ramonas, Dan Rapaport, Marcus Raskin, Ollie Rauh, Sonny Rawls, Coates Redmon, Roy Reed, Deborah B. Reeve, Ken Reigner, Peter Ribicoff, Cindy Rich, Hamilton Richardson, Cam Richey, Jane Rizer, Gary Boyd Roberts, Alexandra Robbins, Randall Roden, Dave Roe, Robert A. “Hawkeye” Rogers, Warren Rogers, Louisa Romano, Marci Rosenberg, Hanna Rosin, Rick Ross, Dan Rostenkowski, Larry J. Sabato, Blair Sabol, Mark Salter, Cindy Samuels, Alexander Sanger, Arnold Scaasi, James Scheuer, Marian Schlesinger, Judith Schiff, Ina Schnell, Daniel Schorr, Aniko Gaal Schott, Dorothy Scott, Bette Seabrook, Elliott Segal, Ruth Osterweis Selig, Carol Seron, Cody Shearer, Riki and Michael Sheehan, Gail Sheehy, Alicia Shepard, Mike Shropshire, Howard E. Shuman, Ellen and Gerry Sigal, Carol Siegal, Ira Silverman, Stephanie Slewka, Mark Smith, Mike Smith, Skip Smith, Terence Smith, Sarakay Smullens, Sydney Soderberg, Mark Soler, Paula Span, Daphne Srinivasan, Dobli and Sheila Srinivasan, Bill Stadiem, Susan Stamberg, Robert Stein, Andrew Stephen, Charles Stephan, Serena Stewart, Juanita Stickney, Karen Street, Elizabeth Streicher, Mickey Stuart, Beverly Sullivan, George Sullivan, Linda Sullivan, Ron Suskind, James W. Symington, Stuart Symington Jr., Franny Taft, Deborah Tannen, Sam Tannenhaus, Erik Tarloff, Steven Thayer, Gene Theroux, Phyllis Theroux, Michael Thomas, Robert E. Thomason, Elizabeth Thompson, Judy Timberman, Dolph Tillotson, Mary Tillotson, Martin Tolchin, Jeffrey Toobin, Nina Totenberg, Calvin Trillin, Yoshi Tsurumi, Frank Valeo, Robert Van Leeuwen, Gore Vidal, Neil Vigdor, Lindy Von Eichel, Christopher Walker, George M. Walker, Ray Walker, Eric Wallach, George Walldrodt, Mary Wallace, French Wallop, Jeannette Walls, Janice Walsh, Ian Walters, Ellen Warren, George “Red Dog” Warren, Susan Watters, Claudia Weicker, Lowell Weicker, Erika Wenzke, Tim Westmoreland, Bob White, Kenneth White, Robert K. Whitt, Thomas Wik, Lilyan Wilder, Leon Wieseltier, Lee Williams, Majorie Williams, Miyuki Williams, Stanley Willis, Tom Wilner, Mark H. Wilson, Page Wilson, Betsy Winnaker, Ellie Winninghoff, Michael Sean Winters, Herman Wolf, Bobby Wood, Randall “Buck” Wood, Judy Woodruff, Diane Woolley, Anne Woolston, Susan Yerkes, Cathy Wolfman Young, Genevieve “Gene” Young, Peck Young, Bernie Yudain, and Sid Yudain.