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Authors: Jules Witcover
30.
Powell,
My American Journey
, 440–44.
31.
Witcover,
Crapshoot
, 388–89.
32.
Ibid., 389–90.
33.
Quayle,
Standing Firm
, 196–97.
34.
Germond and Witcover,
Mad as Hell
, 393.
35.
Broder and Woodward,
The Man Who Would Be President
, 125–26.
36.
K. J. Cooper, “Divided House Bars Funds for Quayle Competitive Council.”
Washington Post
, July 2, 1992.
37.
Germond and Witcover,
Mad as Hell
, 395.
38.
Ibid.
39.
Germond and Witcover,
Mad as Hell
, 145.
40.
Quayle,
Standing Firm
, 311.
41.
Ibid., 400.
42.
Germond and Witcover,
Mad as Hell
, 477.
1.
Maraniss and Nakashima,
The Prince of Tennessee
, 54.
2.
Ibid., 35.
3.
Ibid., 106.
4.
Ibid., 331–33.
5.
Ibid., 383.
6.
Turque,
Inventing Al Gore
, 262.
7.
Ibid., 266–68.
8.
Ibid., 272–73.
9.
Ibid., 274.
10.
Witcover,
Party of the People
, 675.
11.
Ibid., 676–77.
12.
Turque,
Inventing Al Gore
, 312–20.
13.
Ibid., 322–24.
14.
Ibid., 338.
15.
Ibid., 348.
16.
Ibid., 350.
17.
Ibid., 356.
18.
Witcover,
Party of the People
, 700–702.
19.
Ibid., 705.
1.
Warshaw,
The Co-Presidency of Bush and Cheney
, 1–2.
2.
Hayes,
Cheney
, 17.
3.
Cheney,
In My Time
, 26.
4.
Ibid., 27.
5.
Ibid., 28.
6.
Ibid., 30.
7.
Savage,
Takeover
, 12.
8.
Hayes,
Cheney
, 43.
9.
Cheney,
In My Time
, 36.
10.
Hayes,
Cheney
, 44.
11.
Cheney,
In My Time
, 41–42.
12.
Ibid., 59.
13.
Ibid., 92.
14.
Ibid.
15.
Savage,
Takeover
, 53–56.
16.
Ibid., 60–61.
17.
Author interview with Richard Cheney, McLean, VA, March 28, 2013.
18.
Ibid.
19.
Ibid.
20.
Cheney,
In My Time
, 254–55.
21.
Ibid., 256.
22.
Barton Gellman,
Angler
, 1–6.
23.
Ibid., 6.
24.
Cheney,
In My Time
, 257–58.
25.
Ibid., 259.
26.
Hayes,
Cheney
, 281.
27.
Gellman,
Angler
, 7.
28.
U.S. Constitution Amendment XXV, Section 4.
29.
Cheney,
In My Time
, 320–22.
30.
Gellman,
Angler
, 89.
31.
Ibid., 92–93.
32.
Ibid., 98.
33.
Ibid., 104–7.
34.
Cheney,
In My Time
, 318.
35.
Gellman,
Angler
, 110.
36.
Cheney,
In My Time
, 318–19; Gellman,
Angler
, 112.
37.
Cheney,
In My Time
, 3.
38.
Gellman,
Angler
, 120.
39.
Cheney,
In My Time
, 3; Gellman,
Angler
, 124–25.
40.
Cheney,
In My Time
, 334.
41.
Mann,
Rise of the Vulcans
, 138; Warshaw,
The Co-Presidency of Bush and Cheney
, 161–62.
42.
Cheney,
In My Time
, 335.
43.
Gellman,
Angler
, 132.
44.
Ibid., 135.
45.
Ibid., 164–66.
46.
Ibid., 176.
47.
Savage,
Takeover
, 155.
48.
Ibid., 393.
49.
Cheney,
In My Time
, 402.
50.
Savage,
Takeover
, 182, 219; Associated Press interview, September 8, 2005.
51.
Savage,
Takeover
, 163.
52.
Ibid., 163–65.
53.
Ibid., 410.
54.
Author interview with Richard Cheney, McLean, VA, March 28, 2013.
55.
Cheney,
In My Time
, 408.
56.
Gellman,
Angler
, 363.
57.
Author interview with Richard Cheney, McLean, VA, March 28, 2013.
58.
Cheney,
In My Time
, 418.
59.
Savage,
Takeover
, 430.
60.
Gellman,
Angler
, 329.
61.
Cheney,
In My Time
, 434.
62.
Gellman,
Angler
, 377.
1.
Wilmington News Journal
, April 12, 2008.
2.
Newsweek
, November 13, 2008.
3.
Ibid.
4.
Author interview with Vice President Biden, Greenville, DE, December 21, 2009.
5.
Biden,
Promises to Keep
, xi–xvi, 3–4, 9–11, 20–23.
6.
Ibid., 24–34.
7.
Ibid., 36–38.
8.
Witcover,
Joe Biden
, 48–50.
9.
Dallas Morning News
, April 23, 1908, reprint of 1987 profile.
10.
Wilmington News Journal
, January 6, 1973.
11.
Wilmington News Journal
, August 13, 1980.
12.
Witcover,
Joe Biden
, 215.
13.
President George Bush, news conference, Kennebunkport, Maine, July 1, 1991.
14.
Witcover,
Joe Biden
, 270; Senate Judiciary Committee, First Session, part 4, 5.
15.
Witcover,
Joe Biden
, 273.
16.
Ibid., 344.
17.
Lott,
Herding Cats
, 238–41.
18.
Witcover,
Joe Biden
, 347.
19.
Author interview with Biden, December 21, 2009.
20.
CNN, August 12, 2003.
21.
Witcover,
Joe Biden
, 386.
22.
Wilmington News Journal
, January 5, 2008.
23.
New Yorker
, October 13, 2008.
24.
Author interview with David Plouffe, Washington, December 7, 2009.
25.
Boston Globe
, August 24, 2008.
26.
Biden, acceptance speech, Democratic National Convention, Denver, August, 27, 2008.
27.
Heilemann and Halperin,
Game Change
, 413–14, 419.
28.
President Barack Obama, e-mail response to written interview questions, March 1, 2010.
29.
White House Press Office, February 7, 2009.
30.
CNN, April 4, 2009.
31.
Alter,
The Promise
, 389.
32.
President Obama, e-mail response to written interview questions, March 1, 2010.
33.
Author interview with Bruce Reed, Biden chief of staff, Washington, December 18, 2012.
34.
Author interview with Biden, Washington, April 5, 2013.
35.
Ibid.
36.
Ibid.
37.
Ibid.
1.
Nathan Miller,
Theodore Roosevelt
, 342.
2.
Witcover,
Crapshoot
, 404.
3.
Author interview with George S. McGovern, Washington, 1973; Witcover,
Crapshoot
, 414.
4.
Author telephone interview with Walter Mondale, Minneapolis, February 27, 2013.
5.
Author interview with Gerald Ford, Washington, 1977.
6.
Witcover,
Crapshoot
, 399.
7.
Nelson,
A Heartbeat Away
, 45, 8.
8.
Witcover,
Crapshoot
, 400.
9.
Author interview with Joe Biden, Washington, April 5, 2013.
10.
Author interview with Ford, Washington, 1977.
11.
Author interview with Dick Cheney, McLean, VA, March 19, 2013.
12.
Author interview with Biden, April 5, 2013.
13.
Ibid.
14.
Author interview with Ford, 1977.
15.
Author telephone interview with Mondale, February 27, 2013.
16.
Author interview with Cheney, March 19, 2013.
17.
Author telephone interview with Mondale, February 27, 2013.
18.
Ibid.
19.
Author interview with Biden, April 5, 2013.
20.
Author telephone interview with Mondale, February 27, 2013.
21.
Ibid.
22.
Author interview with Biden, April 5, 2013.
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