104. For a list of some of Quayle's other gaffes, see the "Wisdom of Dan Quayle" website,

http://www.ssqq.com/archive/vinlin03.htm

[accessed April 3, 2012]. See also Sabato, Feeding Frenzy, 113.

105. Letter from Prescott Bush to Clover Dulles, April 1969, Allen Dulles Papers, Box 10, Folder 11, "Bush, Prescott, 195269," Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University.

106. Herbert S. Parmet, George Bush: The Life of a Lone Star Yankee (New York: Scribner, 1997), 363.

107. George Bush, "Proclamation 6159-Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Family Appreciation Day, 1990," July 18, 1990, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project,

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=23750

[accessed January 6, 2012].

108. Bush was president of the Zapata Off-shore Drilling Co. at the time and he phoned FBI Agent Graham Kitchel at 1:45 P.M. CST on 11/22/63 to pass on a rumor Bush had heard about a college student named James Parrott. Supposedly, Parrott had threatened to kill JFK. Memorandum from SA Graham W. Kitchel to SAC, Houston, November 22, 1963, "JFK Murder Solved,"

http://jfkmurdersolved.com/bush.htm

[accessed April 5, 2012]. The FBI put two agents, William Schmidt and Kenneth Jackson, on Bush's Parrott tip. Nothing came of it. Parrott was able to confirm his whereabouts on 11/22. Parrott's mother and one of his friends insisted that he had been at his home in Houston that day. The documents are available at

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=62280&rel-Pageld=12

[accessed May 22, 2012].

109. The "Bush did it" theory is mainly linked to two documents. The first is a memo dated 11/29/63 from J. Edgar Hoover to the Director of Intelligence and Research at the State Department which contains the following curious sentence: "The substance of the foregoing information [Cuban ex-patriots' reactions to the assassination] was orally furnished by Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency ..." When a reporter asked about this document during the 1980s, a spokesperson for Vice President Bush said that Bush had worked for an oil drilling company in 1963, not the CIA. A man named George William Bush did work for the CIA in 1963, but he denied that he was the person cited in Hoover's memo (George William Bush's sworn affidavit is available at

http://www.aarclibrary.org/notices/Affidavit_of_George_William_Bush_880921.pdf). Thus, the Bush reference in Hoover's memo has never been satisfactorily explained. Perhaps Hoover had confused the CIA's Bush with another CIA agent who had briefed him. There was also an Army Major General George Bush found in the calendar of former CIA director Allen Dulles by the Assassinations Records Review Board ("Final Report of the AARB," p. 108). The other document that raises eyebrows-Kitchel's memo on G.H.W. Bush's call to the FBI-is available here:

http://jfkmurdersolved.com/bush.htm. Tom Flocco and other conspiracy investigators believe that G.H.W. Bush worked for the CIA in 1963 and is untruthful about his whereabouts on 11/22. Flocco has even posted a photo that supposedly shows Bush in front of the Texas School Book Depository on the day of the assassination. The photo, which shows a man with some resemblance to Bush but-to my eye, at least-younger than Bush at the time, is available at

http://tomflocco.com/fs/FbiMemoPhotoLinkBushJfk.htm

[accessed November 7, 2012].

110. George Bush, "Statement on Signing the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records and Collection Act of 1992," October 26, 1992, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project,

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=21673

[accessed January 6, 2012].

111. Personal interview with Oliver Stone during the Virginia Film Festival, November 4, 2011, Charlottesville, Virginia.

112. The bill had been passed unanimously by the Senate-one indication of its uncon-troversial nature. No doubt, members of Congress were well aware of the public's cynicism about the government's handling of the assassination's aftermath. One poll in this general time frame asked respondents, "Do you think that the American people have or have not been told the whole truth about the assassination of President John Kennedy?" Have been told the truth: 16%, Have not been told the truth: 72%, Not sure: 12%. Survey by Time and CNN. Methodology: Conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, December 17December 22, 1991, and based on 1,500 telephone interviews with adults. [USYANKCS.91DEC2.R26] Time/CNN/Yankelovich Clancy Shulman Poll, Dec, 1991, iPOLL Databank, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut,

http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html

[accessed May 2, 2012].

18. CLINTON GRABS KENNEDY'S TORCH

1. Michael Takiff, A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), 31; Bill Clinton, My Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 35, 4344; Jim Moore with Rick Ihde, Clinton: Young Man in a Hurry (Fort Worth: Summit Group, 1992), 23.

2. Clinton, My Life, 62.

3. Ibid., 65.

4. David Maraniss, First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995), 5355.

5. Telephone interview with Tommy Caplan, June 14, 2012.

6. See, for example, Clinton's speech before the Connecticut Democratic Convention, July 18, 1980, in Stephen A. Smith, ed., Preface to the Presidency: Selected Speeches of Bill Clinton, 197492 (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1996), 22.

7. Maraniss, First in His Class, 381.

8. From Clinton's autobiography: "In the spring of 1980, Fidel Castro deported 120,000 political prisoners and other 'undesirables,' many of them with criminal records or mental problems, to the United States ... I knew immediately that the White House might want to send some of the Cubans to Fort Chaffee, a large installation near Fort Smith, because it had been used as a relocation center in the mid-seventies for Vietnamese refugees ... By May 20, there were nearly twenty thousand Cubans at Fort Chaffee." Clinton, My Life, 27475.

9. Besides the car tax (actually, an increase in license tag fees) and the Cuban immigrant issue, several other factors contributed to Clinton's 1980 defeat, including his proposals for greater regulation of the timber industry and Republican campaign ads linking Clinton to Carter.

10. Clinton, My Life, 266.

11. Charles F. Allen and Jonathan Portis, The Comeback Kid: The Life and Career of Bill Clinton (New York: Birch Lane Press, 1992), 71, 104.

12. Two well-known Democratic governors, who both supported Clinton's presidential bids, separately shared this anecdote with me on background. Stories of this sort about Bill Clinton are legion. Diane A. Wade, "Bill Clinton TV Biography on PBS: How the Former President Broke the News of Lewinsky Affair to His Aide," Belle News, February 21, 2012,

http://www.bellenews.com/2012/02/13/world/us-news/bill-clinton-tv-biography-on-pbs-how-the-former-president-broke-the-news-of-lewinsky-affair-to-his-aide/

[accessed February 21, 2012]; Audie Cornish interview with Barak Goodman, February 20, 2012, All Things Considered, NPR News,

http://www.npr.org/2012/02/20/147164890/clinton-documentary-turns-lens-on-former-president

[accessed February 21, 2012].

13. Larry J. Sabato, Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics (New York: Free Press, 1991), 117.

14. Maraniss, First in His Class, 443.