1. Carter, letter to Rumsfeld, October 24, 1978; Carter, letter to Rumsfeld, November 15, 1978; Rumsfeld-Searle, letter to Carter, December 6, 1978; Rumsfeld, letter to Carter, December 6, 1978.

2. "My Opinion of the Russians Has Changed Most Drastically..." Time, January 14, 1980.

3. "My Opinion of the Russians Has Changed Most Drastically..." Time, January 14, 1980.

4. Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, statement of Donald Rumsfeld, October 11, 1979.

5. Rumsfeld, "Meeting at the White House," January 9, 1980.

6. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977-1981 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983), p. 433.

7. "My Opinion of the Russians Has Changed Most Drastically..." Time, January 14, 1980.

8. Jimmy Carter, address on Afghanistan, January 4, 1980, transcript.

9. Rumsfeld, "Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan," January 9, 1980.

10. Reagan for President News, July 1, 1980.

11. Rumsfeld, remarks at the Republican National Convention, Detroit, Michigan, July 14, 1980, transcript.

12. Hedrick Smith, "Running-Mate List Trimmed by Reagan," New York Times, July 1, 1980.

13. Robert A. Goldwin, "John Locke and the Law of the Sea," Commentary (June 1981).

14. Rumsfeld, "Meeting with President Reagan on October 13, [1982]," January 24, 1983.

15. Rumsfeld to Reagan, "Law of the Sea," December 11, 1982.

16. Rumsfeld to Reagan, "Law of the Sea," December 11, 1982.

17. Rumsfeld, [No Subject], December 10, 1986.

18. Rumsfeld, "Meeting with Fahrenkopf and Bill Greener, III," November 10, 1986.

19. Rumsfeld to Bernie Windon and Linda Schaefer, "Thoughts on the Iowa Trip," October 15, 1986.

20. Ann Reilly Dowd, "Who's Ahead in the '88 Money Race," Fortune, vol. 115, no. 12, June 8, 1987.

21. Richard L. Berke, "Campaign Loans Often Risky," New York Times, June 16, 1987.

22. Glenn, letter to Rumsfeld, April 27, 1987; Rumsfeld, letter to Glenn, May 21, 1987.