Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America (143 page)

22.
Memorandum by Timothy L. Roper.

23.
“Poll Shows Democrats Lead in Fight for House Control,”
New York Times
, October 13, 1980, B5.

24.
Steven R. Weisman, “Carter Says His Programs Can Lead U. S. to an ‘Economic Renaissance,’”
New York Times
, October 13, 1980, B5.

25.
Marjorie Hunter, “Mondale Stressing Reagan ‘Flip-Flops,’”
New York Times
, October 13, 1980, B6.

26.
Terence Smith, “White House Repudiates Andrew Young Remarks,”
New York Times
, October 16, 1980, B6.

27.
“GOP Candidate Gets Treed by the Wags in California,”
Washington Post
, October 15, 1980, A4.

28.
Lou Cannon and Katharine MacDonald, “Reagan's California Swing Evokes the Clashes of 1966,”
Washington Post
, October 14, 1980, A5; Lisa Myers, “Reagan Assails Carter's Failure to Condemn Attacks on Jews; Says President Did Not Speak Out on the Issue,”
Washington Star
, October 14, 1980, A1.

29.
Howell Raines, “Reagan Reiterates Warning on Schools,”
New York Times
, October 14, 1980, D22.

30.
Jerry Hicks, “Orange County Rallies; 13,000 Flock to Hear Reagan,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 14, 1980, 1.

31.
Richard Bergholz, “Reagan Defends His Views; Carter Vows Aid to Israel,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 14, 1980, B1.

32.
Myers, “Reagan Assails Carter's Failure to Condemn Attacks on Jews.”

33.
Terence Hunt, “Reagan Promises to Name Woman to Supreme Court,” Associated Press, October 14, 1980.

34.
Edward Walsh, “Reagan Is Still the Women's Second Choice,”
Washington Post
, October 16, 1980, A1.

35.
“Reagan Vows to Appoint Woman to Highest Court,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 15, 1980, 35.

36.
Paul Conrad,
Washington Post
, October 18, 1980, A2.

37.
Jerry Adler, Jane Whitmore, Phyllis Malamud, William D. Marbach, and Nancy Stadtman, “The Finer Art of Politics,”
Newsweek
, October 13, 1980, 74.

38.
Michael Coakley, “Carter Pledges a Coal Empire,”
Chicago Tribune
, October 14, 1980, 8.

39.
James R. Dickenson, “Carter Gets His Act Together, Woos Disaffected Party Members,”
Washington Star
, October 19, 1980, A1.

40.
Robert McG. Thomas Jr., “Reagan, Briefed by Koch, Demurs on Welfare Help,”
New York Times
, October 18, 1980, 1.

41.
Douglas E. Kneeland, “Reagan Opposes a City Aid Curb,”
New York Times
, September 28, 1980, 1.

42.
Hunt and Perry, “Reagan's Momentum Is Slowing in States He Needs for Election.”

43.
Martin Schram and Lou Cannon, “Key Is Voters League Decision on Anderson,”
Washington Post
, October 16, 1980, A1.

44.
United Press International, “Reagan Electoral-Vote Lead Is Slipping, Survey Shows,”
New York Times
, October 19, 1980, 38.

45.
Adam Clymer, “President Is in the Lead, Especially in the City—Anderson Slide Noted,”
New York Times
, October 21, 1980, A1.

46.
Warren Weaver Jr., “Anderson's Campaign Style Gains as He Loses Ground,”
New York Times
, October 17, 1980, 24.

47.
Douglas E. Kneeland, “Reagan, in Michigan, Focuses on Economy,”
New York Times
, October 16, 1980, B6.

48.
Douglas E. Kneeland, “Reagan Is Endorsed by 2 Black Leaders,”
New York Times
, October 17, 1980, 1.

49.
Patrick Caddell, in discussion with the author, May 13, 2009.

50.
“Carter Renews Debate Challenge,”
New York Times
, October 16, 1980, B8.

51.
Schram and Cannon, “Key Is Voters League Decision on Anderson.”

52.
Howell Raines, “Reagan Backs Cautious Advisers in Split on a Debate with Carter,”
New York Times
, September 23, 1980, B8.

53.
Schram and Cannon, “Key Is Voters League Decision on Anderson.”

54.
“Survey Shows 221 Dailies for Reagan, 59 for Carter,” Associated Press, October 16, 1980.

55.
Michael Putzel, “Reagan Agrees to Debate Carter,” Associated Press, October 17, 1980.

56.
“Business Digest: The Economy,”
New York Times
, October 17, 1980, D1.

57.
Edward Walsh and Lou Cannon, “Reagan and Carter Finally Brought Together,”
Washington Post
, October 17, 1980, A4.

58.
Terence Smith, “Carter and Reagan Trade Quips on Same Dais at Al Smith Dinner,”
New York Times
, October 17, 1980, 22.

59.
Walsh and Cannon, “Reagan and Carter Finally Brought Together.”

60.
James R. Dickenson, “Carter and Reagan Parry Politely at an Al Smith Dinner Encounter,”
Washington Star
, October 17, 1980, A1.

61.
Walsh and Cannon, “Reagan and Carter Finally Brought Together.”

62.
Ed Magnuson, Laurence I. Barrett, Christopher Ogden, “Building to a Climax,”
Time
, October 27, 1980.

63.
Lyn Nofziger,
Nofziger
(Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 1992), 260.

64.
Edward Walsh and Lou Cannon, “Reagan, Carter Plan Debate,”
Washington Post
, October 18, 1980, A1.

65.
Hedrick Smith, “Lead Slipping, a New Reagan Suits Up for the Big Debate,”
New York Times
, October 19, 1980, E1.

66.
Bernard Weinraub, “Carter and Reagan Go on Attack in Ads,”
New York Times
, October 19, 1980, 38.

67.
Lisa Myers, “GOP's Challenger Wants New Treaty,”
Washington Star
, October 20, A1.

68.
Peter Hannaford,
The Reagans: A Political Portrait
(New York: Coward-McCann, 1983), 294.

69.
Steven R. Weisman, “President Suggests Reagan's Policy Could Lead to a ‘Nuclear Precipice,’”
New York Times
, October 20, 1980, A1; Jeremiah O'Leary and Alison Muscatine, “Carter Assails Reagan Plan to Scrap SALT II as ‘Naïve,’”
Washington Star
, October 20, 1980, A1.

70.
Howell Raines, “Reagan, in Speeches, Doesn't Let the Facts Spoil a Good Anecdote or Effective Symbol,”
New York Times
, October 19, 1980, 38.

71.
Goldman et al., “The Electoral Numbers Game.”

72.
Eugene Robinson, “Kennedy, Mindful of Future, Is Going All-Out for Carter,”
Washington Post
, October 12, 1980, A1.

73.
Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover, “Arkansas Bares Weak Spot in Carter's Base,”
Washington Star
, October 15, 1980, A3.

74.
Donald M. Rothberg, “Anderson Slide in Polls Set Stage for League Debate,” Associated Press, October 22, 1980.

75.
Alison Muscatine, “Top Reagan Aide Urges Debate Be Held the Night Before Election,”
Washington Star
, October 20, 1980, A1.

76.
Terence Smith, “Presidential Debate Format Set; Camps Differ on Time and Place,”
New York Times
, October 21, 1980, A1.

77.
Alison Muscatine, “Agreement Is Expected on Debate,”
Washington Star
, October 21, 1980, A1.

78.
James Baker, in discussion with the author, September 6, 2006.

79.
Jody Powell, in discussion with the author, April 10, 2006.

80.
Muscatine, “Top Reagan Aide Urges Debate Be Held the Night Before Election.”

81.
Douglas E. Kneeland, “Reagan Tour Rolls Through Illinois,”
New York Times
, October 19, 1980, 42.

82.
Hannaford,
The Reagans
, 296.

83.
Stuart Spencer, in discussion with the author.

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1.
James Baker, in discussion with the author.

2.
James Baker, in discussion with the author, September 6, 2006.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Stuart Spencer, in discussion with the author, September 28, 2006.

5.
Baker, in discussion with the author, September 6, 2006.

6.
Ibid.

7.
House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, Subcommittee on Human Resources,
Unauthorized Transfers of Nonpublic Information During the 1980 Presidential Election
, 98th Cong., 2d sess., 1984, Committee Print 98–12, 114. Hereinafter cited as House Committee report.

8.
Memorandum from Patrick H. Caddell to the President, “Where We Go from Here—How to Win,” August 18, 1980, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Atlanta, GA.

9.
Tom Wicker, “All Stops Out in Texas,”
New York Times
, October 26, 1980, E19.

10.
Robert Pear, “Drought Aid to Jersey Authorized by Carter; U. S. to Build Pipeline,”
New York Times
, October 20, 1980, A1.

11.
Jeremiah O'Leary, “Carter Will Deny Saudis F-15 Gear,”
Washington Star
, October 26, 1980, A1.

12.
Dick Kirschten, “Cabinet Government Really Does Work—on the Presidential Campaign Trail,”
National Journal
, October 25, 1980, 1800.

13.
Lou Cannon, “Reagan Raises Hostage Issue in Campaign,”
Washington Post
, October 21, 1980, A1.

14.
Brooks Jackson, “Reagan Puts Increasing Stress on Theme That Carter Is a Dangerous Incompetent,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 24, 1980, 16.

15.
Richard Bergholz, “Reagan Blames President for Hostage Tieup,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 22, 1980, B1.

16.
“Quotations of the Day,”
New York Times
, October 22, 1980, B1.

17.
Terence Smith, “President Critical,”
New York Times
, October 22, 1980, A1.

18.
Lou Cannon, “Political Dueling on Hostage Issue,”
Washington Post
, October 22, 1980, A1.

19.
Edward Walsh, “In Texas, Carter Sounds Hawkish Note and Derides Reagan on Hostage Issue,”
Washington Post
, October 23, 1980, A4.

20.
Peter A. Brown, United Press International, October 23, 1980.

21.
Jack Nelson, “Carter Alludes to His Calm in Crisis,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 22, 1980, B16.

22.
“Criticism of President by Governor of Texas Stirs a Political Furor,”
New York Times
, October 26, 1980, 41.

23.
Smith, “President Critical.”

24.
Letter from American Indian Party to Senator S. I. Hayakawa, July 29, 1980, FBI, Box 2, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA.

25.
Letter to Reagan for President, April 14, 1980, FBI, Box 2, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA.

26.
Dudley Clendinen, “Campaign Report,”
New York Times
, October 21, 1980, B6.

27.
Dudley Clendinen, “Campaign Report,”
New York Times
, October 25, 1980, 8.

28.
Hedrick Smith, “Poll Shows President Has Pulled to Even Position with Reagan,”
New York Times
, October 23, 1980, A1.

29.
Clendinen, “Campaign Report,” October 25, 1980.

30.
Michele Davis, in discussion with the author, March 14, 2008.

31.
Dick Wirthlin, in discussion with the author.

32.
Smith, “Poll Shows President Has Pulled to Even Position with Reagan.”

33.
Adam Clymer, “Carter Found Far Behind '76 Pace in Jewish Support,”
New York Times
, October 25, 1980, 8.

34.
United Press International, “McCarthy Is Said to Back Reagan,”
New York Times
, October 22, 1980, A25.

35.
“Clean Gene Is at It Again,”
Time
, November 14, 1988.

36.
Don Shannon, “Reagan Gets Backing of Former Sen. McCarthy,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 24, 1980, B15.

37.
Jackson, “Reagan Puts Increasing Stress on Theme That Carter Is a Dangerous Incompetent.”

38.
United Press International, “Reagan Preparing for Debate,”
New York Times
, October 26, 1980, 41.

39.
Editorial, “At the End of the Alley,”
New York Times
, October 26, 1980, E18.

40.
Mike Causey, “Reagan Is Endorsed by PATCO's Board,”
Washington Post
, October 24, 1980, C2.

41.
Joseph E. Persico,
Casey: From the OSS to the CIA
(New York: Viking, 1990), 194.

42.
Lou Cannon, “Reagan's Team Perplexed by Uncontrollable Events,”
Washington Post
, October 24, 1980, A1.

43.
Persico,
Casey
, 195.

44.
William K. Stevens, “Kennedy Rouses Mexican-Americans to Aid Carter's Drive to Win Texas,”
New York Times
, October 23, 1980, B12.

45.
Gregory Nokes, “Reagan Raps Carter Economic Record of ‘Misery, Despair,’” Associated Press, October 23, 1980.

46.
“Business Digest: Markets,”
New York Times
, October 24, 1980, D1.

47.
Clyde H. Farnsworth, “Consumer Prices Up by 1% in September and 12.7% in a Year,”
New York Times
, October 25, 1980, 1.

48.
Steven R. Weisman, “Californian's Plan Attacked,”
New York Times
, October 25, 1980, 1.