6. McFarlane, North, Poindexter, Secord, Hakim, Clines, Channell, Miller, George, Fiers, Abrams.
7. Abrams, George, Fiers, McFarlane.
8. Weinberger and Clarridge.
9. David Johnston, “The Pardons: Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair, Aborting a Weinberger Trial. Prosecutor Assails ‘Coverup,’ ” New York Times, December 25, 1992.
10. Ibid.
11. Too much deference for some. See Seymour M. Hersh, “The Iran-Contra Committees: Did They Protect Reagan?,” New York Times Magazine, April 29, 1990.
12. Nationally televised speech from the White House, March 4, 1987.
13. Richard E. Cohen, Washington at Work: Back Rooms and Clean Air (New York: Macmillan, 1995), 27–48.
14. Ibid., 62.
15. Helen Dewar, Washington Post, March 25, 1990.
16. Congressional Record: Senate, March 29, 1990, 5861.
17. Paul A. Gigot, “Clean-Air Game: Green Machine Routs Bush Team,” Wall Street Journal, April 6, 1990; Matthew L. Wald, “Industry Wary of Clean-Air Bill,” New York Times, April 5, 1990.
18. Cohen, Washington at Work, 174.
19. Ibid., 176.
20. Environmental Protection Agency, Our Nation’s Air, 2012 Report. The amounts of reduction were significant: ground-level ozone 17 percent, particulate pollution 38 percent, lead 45 percent, nitrogen oxides 45 percent, carbon monoxide 73 percent, sulfur dioxide 75 percent.
21. “Portland Girl Given Little League Rights,” Associated Press, Lewiston Daily Sun, May 28, 1974.
22. 132 Cong. Rec. 14336 1986.
23. 132 Cong. Rec. 14341 1986.
24. “White House Shores Up No Tax Stand,” Washington Post, May 10, 1990.
25. John Robert Greene, The Presidency of George Bush (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999), 37.
26. A copy of the original document, with my handwritten changes, is included at the end of these notes.
27. Statement by the president, August 19, 1982.
28. “The Budget Agreement,” New York Times, October 2, 1990.
NORTHERN IRELAND
1. George J. Mitchell, Making Peace (New York: Knopf, 1999), 187.
NO TIME FOR RETIREMENT
1. Ashley Dunlak, “Tigers’ Scherzer on Steroid Scandal: ‘We’re Tired of Cheaters,’ ” CBS Detroit, August 6, 2013.
2. Stephen Lorenso and Christian Red, “Mike Trout Wants Players Caught Using Steroids and PEDs Thrown Out of Baseball for Life,” New York Daily News, August 13, 2013.
3. Mike Cardillo, “Diamondbacks Pitcher David Hernandez: Throw PED Cheats Out of Baseball,” Big Lead, June 7, 2013.
4. Peter Abraham, “Dustin Pedroia OK with Hiking PED Penalties,” Boston Globe, March 4, 2013; Bryan Curtis, “Q&A: Angels Pitcher C. J. Wilson on Steroids, Screenplays, and Star Wars,” Grantland, March 11, 2013.
5. Associated Press, “All Star SS Peralta, Cardinals Reach 4-Year Deal,” November 24, 2013.
6. Bill Madden, “MLB Players Association’s Michael Weiner Says Some Players Would Welcome Tougher Bans for Positive Drug Tests,” New York Daily News, February 25, 2013.
7. Statement by Major League Baseball and Major League Baseball Players Association, March 28, 2014.
8. Ibid.
9. Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports (New York: Gotham, 2006).
10. The history of baseball’s efforts to confront drug use is summarized in George J. Mitchell, Report to the Commissioner of Baseball of an Independent Investigation into the Illegal Use of Steroids and Other Performance Enhancing Substances by Players in Major League Baseball, December 13, 2007, 18–137.
11. Report of the Special Bid Oversight Commission, United States Olympic Committee, March 1, 1999.
12. Mitchell, Report to the Commissioner of Baseball.
13. Report of the International Commission on Violence in the Middle East, April 30, 2001.
14. U.S. Department of State, Remarks by Senator George J. Mitchell, Appointment of Special Envoy for Middle East Peace and Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Washington, DC, January 22, 2009.
15. Naftali Bennett, “For Israel, Two-State Is No Solution,” New York Times, November 5, 2014.
16. Stephen Castle and Jodi Rudoren, “A Symbolic Vote in Britain Recognizes a Palestinian State,” New York Times, October 13, 2014.
17. Dan Bilefsky and Maia de la Baume, “Symbolic Vote in France Backs Palestinian State,” New York Times, December 3, 2014.
18. Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, 102nd Congress, May 22, 1991.
19. U.S. Department of State, airgram to the Embassy in Israel, April 8, 1968. See http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v20/d137.
20. UN Security Council, Statement by Charles Yost, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, July 1, 1969. See Foundation for Middle East Peace, “Report on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories,” Special Report, February 1994, p. 6.
21. United Nations Security Council, Statement by William Scranton, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, March 23, 1976. See Foundation for Middle East Peace, “Report on Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories,” Special Report, February 1994, p. 6.
22. U.S. Department of State, Statement by the Secretary of State, March 21, 1980.
23. White House, Statement by the President, September 1, 1982.
24. White House, Statement by the President, December 16, 1996.
25. White House, Statement by President George W. Bush, April 4, 2002; White House, “President Bush Calls for New Palestinian Leadership,” June 24, 2002, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020624-3.html.
26. United Nations, “A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” July 2002, http://www.un.org/News/dh/mideast/roadmap122002.pdf.
27. Thomas Friedman, “The Last Train,” New York Times, October 26, 2014.
28. Jackson Diehl, “Abbas’ Waiting Game on Peace with Israel,” Washington Post, May 29, 2009. Abbas’s view, that others are resonsible for the plight of the Palestinians, is widely shared in the region among Arabs, and also in Turkey and Iran and other non-Arab countries. It is often expressed more broadly to included the plight of the entire region. See Tim Arango, “Turkish Leader, Using Conflicts, Cements Power,” New York Times, November 1, 2014.
29. David Ignatius, “The Mideast Deal That Could Have Been,” Washington Post, October 26, 2011.
30. Richard Boudreaux, “Olmert’s Peace Efforts Put Livni in Tight Spot,” Los Angeles Times, February 4, 2009.
31. Ibid.
32. Much later, in an interview, Olmert described those discussions in detail. Greg Sheridan, “Ehud Olmert Still Dreams of Peace,” Australian, November 28, 2009.
33. Richard Boudreaux, “Olmert’s Peace Efforts Put Livni in Tight Spot,” Los Angeles Times, February 4, 2009.
34. U.S. Department of State, Briefing by Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell, November 25, 2009.
INDEX
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Abbas, Mahmoud, 312, 314, 321, 326–30, 333–39
Netanyahu’s meetings with, 334–38
ABC television, 270, 274
Abdullah, King of Jordan, 334
Abenaki, 43, 44
abortion, 147, 167–68
Acadia National Park, 53, 373, 374–75
acid rain, 170, 171, 172, 174, 180
Afghanistan, 305, 306
Air Line Road, 354–55, 357
alcohol, tax on, 194, 216, 217, 219
&
nbsp; American Indians, 43–44, 48, 53, 102, 372
American Red Cross, 261–64
Amoco Cadiz oil spill, 225
Amtrak, 199–200
Andrew’s Peace, 246–52
anticommunism, 72, 79, 135, 136
Arabia, 307–8
Arabic language, 19, 24, 378
Arab Peace Initiative (2002), 325
Arabs, 307–11, 314, 318, 321, 322, 325, 336, 339
Israeli, 318, 320
settlement freeze and, 326
uprisings of, 309, 310
Arafat, Yasser, 311, 312, 321
Argo Merchant oil spill, 225
Armstrong, Lance, 291n
Army, U.S., 24, 63, 65–66, 69
Intelligence Service of, 66, 71–82, 84–85, 367
Aspirations of Maine’s Youth (conference), 344
Atkins, Barbara Mitchell, 6, 7, 18, 20, 39, 40–41, 244, 379
education of, 68, 94
Atkins, Eddie, 141
Baer, Max, 79
Baird, Ken, 91–92
Baker, James A., III, 323
BALCO (Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative) scandal, 289, 293, 296, 297
Balfour Declaration, 308
Baltimore, Md., 71–72
Bangor, Maine, 8, 38, 50, 97, 106–7, 108, 354, 355
Bangor High School, 343
Barak, Ehud, 312, 313, 318
Bar Harbor, Maine, 38, 52, 53, 373
Barstow, David, 261
baseball, 21, 22, 24, 30, 198
Blue Ribbon Commission report on, 287
girls in, 198
Mitchell’s investigation of, 287–301
performance-enhancing drugs and, 281–302
Basic Agreement, 282–83, 294, 295, 299
basketball, 21–24, 31, 32, 34–35
at Bowdoin, 58, 59, 62, 64–65
Bath Iron Works, 151–53, 197, 199
Baucus, Max, 158, 159
clean air efforts and, 174, 177, 179, 180, 182, 183
Begin, Menachem, 310, 311
Belfast, 40, 243, 247, 362–63
Belfast, Maine, 52, 53
Ben-Gurion, David, 310–11
Benoit, Larry, 127–28, 130–31
Bentsen, Lloyd, 211
Bergman, Ingrid, 82–83
Berlin, 72–82, 84–85, 86, 88, 109, 367
refugees in, 76–79
Bernhard, Berl, 150n, 261–62, 264
Best family, 250
Beverly Hills, Calif., 125–27, 132, 173
Biden, Joe, 187–88, 303, 333, 334
Biogenisis clinic, 282, 300
Birney, Trevor, 246, 249, 250
Bkassine, 6, 379
Blackmun, Harry, 231, 233
Black September, 311
Blair, Tony, 242, 245
blood testing, 282, 291
Boles, Eugenie, 6–7
Boles, Marium Saad, 6, 7
Boles, Thomas, 6, 7
bombing, 240–41, 247, 251, 265
of King David Hotel, 310
book signing, 63–64
Boston, Mass, 7–8, 69, 71, 200, 285–86, 296–97, 378
Boston Red Sox, 24, 281, 284, 285–86
Bowdoin College, 59–69, 88, 91, 364–66
history of, 60–61
Boyle, Jessica, 342–44
Boys Club, 29, 32, 33
Bradley, Bill, 159, 203n
Brady, Nicholas, 201, 211
Brann, Louis, 46
Breaux, John, 177
Brennan, Joe, 99, 113–18
Breyer, Stephen, 233
bridges, 4, 15–16, 54, 82–83, 194, 195, 199
in Ireland, 378–79
in New York, 257–60
Bridges, Styles, 87, 89
Bristol, Maine, trip to, 36–40
Brokaw, Tom, 131
Brunswick, Maine, 57–67, 197–200
Brunswick Bypass, 197, 199
Brunswick Naval Air Station, 197, 199
budget, 202, 218, 220, 361
Clinton policy and, 229, 230, 361
deficit, 203, 205–7, 209–16
Bush, George H. W., 138, 168, 323
budget and, 206–7, 209–13, 361
clean air efforts and, 171–72, 175–76, 178, 183–86, 189–92
taxes and, 201–2, 204–19
Bush, George W., 316, 326, 331
business, xiii, 58–59, 203
clean air efforts and, 173, 178, 179, 184
health care reform and, 231–32
Robbie’s ventures in, 32–35
transportation projects and, 198–99
Byrd, Robert C., 145, 147, 149, 155–56, 160–63, 244
clean air efforts and, 18–79, 169, 171, 184–88
funeral of, 188
Byrd amendment, 169, 184–88
California, 125–27, 132, 145, 173, 198, 266–67, 286
Camp David agreements, 311, 312
Camp Lejeune, 66–69
Canada, Canadians, 44, 46, 144, 224
environmental issues and, 171, 172
Olympic Games and, 277, 279
cap-and-trade, 175, 184
capital, 204
equity vs. debt, 221
capital gains tax, 203–5
Capitol, U.S., 154–55
cars and driving, 33, 36, 52–53, 57, 58–59, 68–71, 77, 87, 107–8, 197
clean air efforts and, 173, 174, 185
with Muskie, 352–55
9/11 and, 257–60
pollution and, 169, 170, 174
Carter, Jimmy, 102, 105, 106, 311, 324, 353
hostage crisis and, 113, 369
Catholics, 7–8, 10, 13, 86–87, 250, 378
Maronite, 18–20
Ceausescu, Nicolae, 141
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 84–85
Chafee, John, 174, 177, 182
health care reform and, 232–34
taxes and, 203n, 204, 205
Chamberlain, Joshua, 60
Champlain, Samuel de, 48, 372–73
Cheney, Dick, 137
Chicago, Ill., 295, 304
China, 13
Christian Civic League of Maine, 147
Christian Right, 147
cigarettes, tax on, 194, 216, 217, 219
Civil War, U.S., 45, 46, 60
Clarke, John, 288
Clean Air Act (1970), 93, 223n
1977 amendment to, 170
1990 amendment to, 169–93, 205, 206, 218, 220, 361
Clinton, Bill, 141, 150, 229–36, 345, 365
budget and, 229, 230, 361
health care reform and, 229, 231–35, 303
Ireland policy and, 235–36, 241–42, 268
Middle East and, 304, 311–12, 324
Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 229, 231, 305
Middle East policy and, 303–4, 333–34, 336
coal miners, coal, 171, 179, 181, 184
Cohen, Bill, 122, 149–53
Cohen Group, 150–51
Colby College, 11–13, 34, 59, 66–67, 343
baseball at, 284–85
Commissioner’s Office, 292, 300
communism, communists, 75, 76, 79, 80, 135, 141
Congress, U.S., 45, 54, 105, 145, 194, 319
Iran-Contra Select Committee of, 135–39, 149–50, 157, 158
joint committee on taxation of, 203
Mandela’s addressing of, 201
“out-of-control-pork-barrel” spending of, 199
see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.
Congressional Budget Office, 206, 217
contras, xiv, 135–39
Coombs, Edmund “Beezer,” 64–65
corruption, Olympic Games and, 277–80, 289
counterfeit bills story, 376–77
criminal cases, 104–7, 138
Curtis, Ken, 114, 115, 118
election of 1982 and, 121–23, 128–29
Danforth, John, 203n, 222
Darman
, Dick, 201, 209–12, 218–19
debt, 206, 207, 270
housing and, 221, 222
democracy, 79n, 80, 136, 137, 141, 216, 251
Democratic National Committee, 96, 99
Democratic National Convention (1968), 06, 99
Democratic Party, Democrats, 138, 139, 145–49, 151, 206, 229–30, 304, 357
clean air efforts and, 171, 174, 175, 178, 185–86, 189, 191
election of Senate majority leader and, 148, 151–64
health care reform and, 231–35
taxes and, 202, 204, 205, 208–10, 216–18
Democratic Party, Maine, 46, 91, 95–96, 97, 114, 115, 147
election of 1982 and, 122, 123, 128
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, 145, 158
DiMaggio, Joe, 284, 285–86
Dingell, John, Jr., 182–84, 190–92
Dingell, John, Sr., 172
Disney (Walt Disney Company), 266–76
board of directors of, 267–75, 286
Mitchell offered presidency of, 267–68
Disney, Roy, 268, 270–75
District Court, U.S., judges in, 102–7, 109, 113, 114, 115, 118
DLA Piper, 150–51, 264, 287
document dispute, 330–33, 335–36
Dole, Bob, 149, 232
clean air efforts and, 175–76, 186–87
Mitchell’s relationship with, 163–65
“Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy, 230
drugs, 104–5
performance-enhancing, 281–302
drug testing, 282–84, 287, 290–91, 295, 298–301
Dukes, Walter, 34–35
Durenberger, David, 174, 177, 182
economy, U.S., 202, 208–9, 218–21
education, 341–47
Egypt, 307, 311–14, 334, 336
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 77, 79–80
Eisner, Michael, 267–75
elections, 46
for Senate majority leader (1988), 148, 151–64, 171
elections, Maine, 91
of 1966, 114
of 1974, 99–101, 113
of 1978, 113
of 1982, 117–18, 121–33, 149, 156, 159
of 1988, 157, 166, 201
of 1998, 147–48
of 2004, 180
elections, U.S.:
of 1956, 79–80
of 1960, 89
of 1964, 90, 97–98
of 1968, 94, 96–99
of 1972, 94, 99, 113, 125, 126
of 1976, 102, 113, 163
of 1980, 113
of 1986, 145, 158