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11. George H. W. Bush, All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings (New York: Scribner, 1999), pp. 330–31.
12. Rumsfeld to Shultz, State Department cable, “Rumsfeld Mission: December 20 Meeting with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein,” December 21, 1983.
CHAPTER 2 Into the Swamp
1. Rumsfeld to Shultz, “The Swamp,” November 23, 1983.
2. Rumsfeld to Shultz, “The Swamp,” November 23, 1983.
3. Rumsfeld to Shultz, “The Swamp,” November 23, 1983.
4. Rumsfeld to Shultz, “The Swamp,” November 23, 1983.
5. Tom Clancy with General Carl Stiner (Ret.) and Tony Koltz, Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces (New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 2002), pp. 235–36.
6. U.S. Department of Defense, Report of the DoD Commission on Beirut International Airport Terrorist Act, October 23, 1983 (Long Commission Report), December 20, 1983.
7. Ronald Reagan, remarks and question-and-answer session with reporters, “On the Pentagon Report on the Security of United States Marines in Lebanon,” December 27, 1983.
8. Ronald Reagan, remarks and question-and-answer session with reporters, “On the Pentagon Report on the Security of United States Marines in Lebanon,” December 27, 1983.
9. John Roberts, “Marine Barracks Bombing,” CNN Presents, CNN, August 13, 2006.
10. Saul Friedman, “Reagan Pressured,” Knight-Ridder News Service, January 4, 1984.
11. Rumsfeld to Shultz, “The Swamp,” November 23, 1983.
12. Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), p. 327.
13. State Department cable, “Middle East Mission Meeting with Mrs. Thatcher,” January 20, 1984.
14. Rumsfeld, “Lebanese Strategy,” undated.
15. Ronald Reagan, radio address, “On the Budget deficit, Central America, and Lebanon,” February 4, 1984.
16. Rumsfeld to Shultz, State Department cable, “Next Steps in Lebanon,” January 31, 1984.
17. Lou Cannon, President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (New York: Public Affairs, 2000), pp. 399–400.
18. McFarlane to Rumsfeld, cable, “Implementation of NSDD-123,” February 4, 1984.
19. Rumsfeld to American Embassy Beirut, State Department cable, “Rumsfeld Report, 2/8/84,” February 10, 1984.
20. Ronald Reagan, “Statement on the Situation in Lebanon,” February 7, 1984.
21. George P. Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993), p. 231.
22. Rick Hampson, “25 Years Later, Bombing in Beirut Still Resonates,” USA Today, October 15, 2008.
23. Osama bin Laden, transcript of Al Jazeera tape, Reuters, October 29, 2004; Mohamad Bazzi, “‘A Thousand New bin Ladens,’” Newsday, July 31, 2006.
24. Rumsfeld, remarks, “On the Awarding of the George Catlett Marshall Medal,” October 17, 1984.
25. George Shultz, address, “Terrorism and the Modern World,” New York, Park Avenue Synagogue, October 25, 1984.
PART TWO An American, Chicago Born
1. Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March (New York: Knopf, 1995), p. 5.
2. KTU radio broadcast, Honolulu, Hawaii, NBC Radio Blue Network (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, December 7, 1941), disk 21920, cut A2.
3. Louis M. Lyons, “Kennedy Says Democracy All Done in Britain, Maybe Here; Pinch Coming in Loss of Trade,” Boston Sunday Globe, November 10, 1940.
4. NBC radio broadcast (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, December 7, 1941), box C48-E41-85, disc 21918B, box C48-E41-85, cut A1; News flashes with Baukhage (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, December 7, 1941), box E41, disc 21930, cut A3.
5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “Address to Congress Requesting a Declaration of War,” December 8, 1941.
CHAPTER 3 The Last of Spring
1. William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932–1972 (New York: Bantam Books, 1975), p. 32.
2. Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor, American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley—His Battle for Chicago and the Nation (Boston: Little, Brown, 2000), p. 55.
3. Rumsfeld, “My Autobiography,” January 11, 1946.
4. Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor,