George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography

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  1. Walter Pincus and Bob Woodward, "Presidential Posts and Dashed Hopes," Washington Post, August 9,



  2. Reston, p. 382.

  3. Bush and Gold, Looking Forward, p. 110.

  4. For the Nixon side of the Bush UN appointment, see William Safire, Before the Fall (New York, 1977),
    especially "The President Falls in Love," pp. 642 ff.^

  5. Reston, p. 382. Reston (pp. 586-587) tells the story of how, years later in the 1980 Iowa caucuses
    campaign when both Bush and Connally were in the race, Bush was enraged by Connally's denigration of
    his manhood in remarks to Texans that Bush was 'all hat and no cattle.' Bush was walking by a television
    set in the Hotel Fort Des Moines when Connally came on the screen. Bush reached out toward Connally's
    image on the screen as if to shake hands. Then Bush screamed, "Thank you, sir, for all the kind things you
    and your friends have been saying about me!" Then Bush slammed his fist on the top of the set, yelling
    "That prick!"

  6. On Kissinger, see Scott Thompson and Joseph Brewda, "Kissinger Associates: Two Birds in the Bush,"
    Executive Intelligence Review, March 3, 1989.

  7. See Tad Szulc, The Illusion of Peace (New York, 1978), p. 498.^

  8. Henry Kissinger, White House Years (Boston, 1979), p. 715.

  9. Szulc, p. 500, and Washington Post, August 12, 1971.^

  10. Washington Post, October 31, 1971.

  11. See Seymour M. Hersh, The Price of Power (New York, 1983), pp. 444 ff.^

  12. Henry Kissinger, White House Years, p. 897. The general outlines of these reamrks were first published
    in the Jack Anderson column, and reprinted in Jack Anderson, The Anderson Papers ( New York, 1973).

  13. Kissinger, p. 896.

  14. Jack Anderson, The Anderson Papers, p. 226.

  15. Elmo Zumwalt, On Watch (New York, 1976), p. 367.

  16. Anderson, p. 260-1.

  17. Kissinger, p. 909.

  18. Hersh, The Price of Power, p. 457.

  19. Kissinger, pp. 911-912.

  20. See R.C. Gupta, US Policy Towards India and Pakistan (Delhi, 1977) , p. 84 ff.

  21. Washington Post, July 27, 1972.

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