George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography

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  1. Sidney Blumenthal, The Rise of the Counter-establishment (New York, 1988), pp. 82-83.

  2. Mark Bisnow, Diary of a Dark Horse: The 1980 Anderson Presidential Campaign (Southern
    Illinois University Press, 1983), p. 136.

  3. For the Nashua Telegraph Debate, see: Greenfield, The Real Campaign, p. 44 ff.;Diary of a Dark Horse, p. 134 ff.; Jules Witcover and Jack Germond, Blue Smoke and Mirrors Mark Bisnow,
    (New York, 1981), p. 116 ff.

  4. Washington Post, April 29, 1980.

  5. Texas Observer, May 23, 1980.

  6. David Leigh, The Wilson Plot, passim.

  7. Letter from Casey to Cherne, July 10, 1973, Ford Library, Leo Cherne Papers, Box 1.

  8. Germond and Witcover, Blue Smoke and Mirrors, p. 169.

  9. Germond and Witcover, p. 170.

  10. Germond and Witcover, p. 171.

  11. The best testimony on this is Reagan's own response to a question from Witcover and Germond.
    Asked if "it was true that he was trying to get President Ford to run with him," Reagan promptly
    responded, "Oh, sure. That would be the best." See Germond and Witcover, p. 178.

  12. Germond and Witcover, p. 187.

  13. Germond and Witcover, p. 188.

  14. See Henry Pringle, Theodore Roosevelt, A Biography (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1931), p.



  15. Washington Star, July 15, 1980.

  16. See Executive Intelligence Review, Project Democracy: The "Parallel Government" Behind the
    Iran-contra affair (Washington, 1987), pp. 88-101.

  17. Gary Sick, "The Election Story of the Decade," New York Times, April 15, 1991.

  18. Abbie Hoffman and Jonathan Silvers, "An Election Held Hostage" Playboy, October 1988.

  19. Abol Hassan Bani-Sadr, My Turn to Speak (New York, 1991), p. 33.

  20. Barbara Honegger, October Surprise , p. 59.

  21. Gary Sick, New York Times, April 15, 1991.

  22. For an exhaustive analysis of Bush's alibi, see Barbara Honegger, October Surprise (New York,
    1989), p. 98 ff.

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