40 "You could lose the 6 or 7": Matthew Dowd, interview with PBS's Front-line, January 4, 2005, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/architect/interviews/dowd.html. Dowd confirmed his memo in an e-mail exchange with author. See also Edsall, Building Red America, 50.

41 Bush "was eager and fervent": Sandy Kress, author interview.

42 "disaggregation of data": Peter Baker, "An Unlikely Partnership Left Behind," Washington Post, November 5, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/04/AR2007110401450.html.

43 "You know, Senator, they are": Kress interview.

44 "Who is this guy?": Pritchard, Failed Diplomacy, 52.

45 "It did not change the president's": Ibid.

46 "we urgently need": Richard A. Clarke to Condoleezza Rice, memo, "Subject: Presidential Policy Initiative/Review-the Al-Qaida Network," January 25, 2001, http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB147/clarke%20memo.pdf.

47 "Condi Rice will run these meetings": Suskind, Price of Loyalty, 7075.

48 "We're going to correct": Ibid.

49 "Almost from the very beginning": Rice, No Higher Honor, 29.

50 "Why are we even bothering": DeYoung, Soldier, 31416.

51 "Factories all over the world": Paul O'Neill, author interview.

52 "What's going on?": Rice, No Higher Honor, 2728.

53 "a routine mission was conducted": George W. Bush, news conference, San Cristbal, Mexico, February 16, 2001, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/02/20010216-3.html.

54 "I'm going to call Dick": Rice, No Higher Honor, 2728.

55 "That said something to me": Condoleezza Rice, author interview.

56 "relaxed while at the same time": Campbell, Blair Years, 5056.

57 "had a certain Soviet woodenness": Meyer, DC Confidential, 176.

58 "I don't expect that they are": Ibid., 171.

59 "He was a curious mix of cocky": Campbell, Blair Years, 5056.

60 "self-effacing and self-deprecatory": Tony Blair, Journey, 392.

61 one American official noticed: James Dobbins, author interview.

62 "we both use Colgate toothpaste": George W. Bush and Tony Blair, joint news conference, February 23, 2001, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/02/20010226-1.html.

63 "Why don't we all watch": Cherie Blair, Speaking for Myself, 261.

64 "Well, what did they say": Laura Bush, Spoken from the Heart, 17980.

65 thirty-seven fishing books: Labash, Fly Fishing with Darth Vader, 57.

66 Cheney began to feel uncomfortable: Eric Schmitt, "Cheney Complains of Pains in Chest; Artery Is Cleared," New York Times, March 6, 2001.

67 "Well, I feel great": Late Edition, CNN, March 4, 2001, transcript.

68 he found a headline: Steven Mufson, "Bush to Pick Up Clinton Talks on N. Korean Missiles," Washington Post, March 7, 2001.

69 "Have you seen the Washington Post?": Rice, No Higher Honor, 3536.

70 "the fatal word: 'Clinton' ": DeYoung, Soldier, 32426.

71 "There was some suggestion": Colin Powell, remarks to reporters, March 7, 2001, Federal News Service transcript.

72 "Sometimes you get a little": Doug Struck, "N. Korean Leader to Continue Sales of Missiles," Washington Post, May 5, 2001.

73 "I oppose the Kyoto Protocol": George W. Bush to Senators Chuck Hagel, Jesse Helms, Larry Craig, and Pat Roberts, March 13, 2001, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/03/20010314.html.

74 both parties voted 95 to 0: The nonbinding resolution expressed the "sense of the Senate" that the United States should not sign any agreement at Kyoto that mandated new commitments to limit greenhouse gas emissions unless it included developing countries like China and India. The Senate adopted it July 25, 1997. While it did not hold the force of law, it made pretty clear that ratification was unlikely to say the least. http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=105&session=1&vote=00205.

75 "Do you have it?": Whitman, It's My Party Too, 17379.

76 "That one was a done deal": Christine Todd Whitman, author interview.

77 "Somebody better tell Christie": Chafee, Against the Tide, 105.

78 "Slow this thing down": DeYoung, Soldier, 32728. Powell remembered saying he would come, while Rice remembered asking him to come. See Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice, 14849.

79 "But the letter is already gone": Rice, No Higher Honor, 4142.

80 "you're going to see the consequences": DeYoung, Soldier, 32728.

81 "The way they did it": Whitman interview.

82 "They had built this beautiful": Gordon Johndroe, author interview.

83 "While he was right on Kyoto": Stephen Hadley, author interview.

84 she was "appalled": Rice, No Higher Honor, 4142.

85 "It wasn't that the vice president": Whitman interview.

86 "We thought we knew Dick": Suskind, Price of Loyalty, 12426.

87 Cheney secretly signed a letter: Dick Cheney, In My Time, 32022.

88 "This is not your decision": Ibid.

CHAPTER 6: "IRON FILINGS MOVING ACROSS A TABLETOP".

1 "He was not going to be": Judd Gregg, author interview.

2 Besides, he said: Shelton, Without Hesitation, 43841.

3 "I regret that a Chinese pilot": George W. Bush statement, April 5, 2001.

4 "we're sorry" about the death: Colin Powell, appearance on Face the Nation, CBS, April 8, 2001, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-284682.html.

5 Powell should say "pretty please": Rice, No Higher Honor, 4748.

6 The seven-paragraph letter: Ambassador Joseph W. Prueher to Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan of China, April 11, 2001, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/04/20010411-1.html.

7 president's language "was unfortunate": Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, 31415.

8 "they have won": Robert Kagan and William Kristol, "We Lost," Washington Post, April 13, 2001.

9 "When you're talking to Dick": Nicholas Lemann, "The Quiet Man," New Yorker, May 7, 2001.

10 "Yes," Lott replied: Trent Lott, author interview.

11 "It was good news if the president": Dennis Hastert, author interview.

12 Cheney called Tim Pawlenty: Pawlenty, Courage to Stand, p. 112.

13 "We're asking you for the good": Edwin Chen and Janet Hook, "Bush Team Plays Role Fit for a Kingmaker," Los Angeles Times, April 25, 2001, http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/25/news/mn-55164.

14 "the threat of terrorist attack": Lemann, "Quiet Man."

15 he was sharply rebuffed: Administration official, author interview.

16 "Stiff 'em," Bush said: White House official, author interview.

17 "Now, conservation is an important": Dick Cheney, speech to the Annual Meeting of the Associated Press, Toronto, April 30, 2001, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/vicepresident/news-speeches/speeches/vp20010430.html.

18 "battled over the energy policy": Frum, Right Man, 6264.

19 "literally defined the next three years": Jim Connaughton, author interview.

20 "It was a way of establishing": Brad Berenson, author interview.

21 "Strom Thurmond Jr., huh?": Ibid.

22 "I won't negotiate with myself": Suskind, Price of Loyalty, 117.

23 "I did not foresee how different": Greenspan, Age of Turbulence, 21617.

24 "Nicky," he said, "don't wobble": Nick Calio, author interview.

25 cast his first tie-breaking vote: David E. Rosenbaum, "Bush Tax Cut Plan Passes First Test in a Split Senate," New York Times, April 4, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/04/us/bush-tax-cut-plan-passes-first-test-in-a-split-senate.html. Over the course of his eight years in office, Cheney would break eight ties, the most of any vice president since Richard Nixon during the Eisenhower administration. Senate Historical Office, http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/VPTies.pdf.

26 "the Torture Chamber": Jeffords, Independent Man, 263.

27 had been jealous: Rove, Courage and Consequence, 23031.

28 "relaxed and charming": Jeffords, Independent Man, 271.

29 "Here we are in the Oval Office": Hughes, Ten Minutes from Normal, 21112.

30 "a one-term president": Jeffords, Independent Man, 271.

31 "You are the swing vote": Hughes, Ten Minutes from Normal, 21112.

32 "It was clear that the deal": Calio interview.

33 "He just said there will be": Lott interview.

34 "It was a big body blow": Ari Fleischer, author interview.

35 scribbling down $1.425 trillion: Ben Nelson, author interview.

36 House approved the plan 240 to 154: U.S. House Clerk's Office, May 26, 2001, http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2001/roll149.xml.

37 Senate followed barely an hour: U.S. Senate roll call record, May 26, 2001, http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=1&vote=00170.

38 "Don't worry about Susan": Chafee, Against the Tide, 6263.

39 "That's the reason I like": Daschle, Like No Other Time, 8588.

40 "Mr. President, conservatives are": Calio interview.

41 "Mr. President, I got to tell you": Ibid.

42 "one cold dude": Bush made the comment to Tony Blair during their first meeting at Camp David in February 2001. Meyer, DC Confidential, 178.

43 "inside our tent": Michael McFaul, author interview. McFaul became President Barack Obama's senior adviser on Russia and later ambassador to Moscow.

44 "I did play rugby": Hughes, Ten Minutes from Normal, 21819.

45 "Let me say something": Woodward, Bush at War, 11920.

46 Rice found it hard to believe: Rice, No Higher Honor, 63.

47 "an honest, straightforward man": George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, news conference, Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia, June 16, 2001, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/06/20010618.html.