Part 30 (1/2)
”It's going to be important”: Ibid.
”I don't think we're trying to dampen”: David Mendell, Chicago Tribune Tribune, November 4, 2004.
On ABC's daytime show: Rudolph Bush, Chicago Tribune Tribune, November 23, 2004.
On Letterman's show: ”The Late Show,” CBS, November 26, 2004.
Adopting a tone: Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times Sun-Times, December 6, 2004.
She was inspired to re-issue: Janny Scott, New York Times Times, May 18, 2008.
Woodward once called him: Ibid.
Although Peter Osnos: Peter Osnos, The Century Foundation: News and Commentary The Century Foundation: News and Commentary, October 30, 2006.
He met with Obama: Wolffe, Renegade Renegade, p. 38.
”I know what I'm good at”: Pete Rouse interview, ”Frontline,” PBS, July 11, 2008.
Obama told Rouse: Ibid.
He planned to help Obama: Ibid.
Oprah Winfrey declared: Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Tribune, March 20, 2005.
At times, Obama's celebrity: Ibid.
One of the first books: Jeff Zeleny and Kate Zernike, New York Times Times, March 9, 2008.
Nevertheless, Obama told: Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Tribune, March 20, 2005.
”All of us are a mixture”: Ibid.
When Obama paid a visit: Ibid.
At the swearing-in ceremony: Ibid.
”Over the next six years”: Ibid.
During Rice's confirmation hearings: Ben Wallace-Wells, ”Destiny's Child,” Rolling Stone Rolling Stone, February 22, 2007.
Faced with the prospect: Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Tribune, September 23, 2005.
”So we enter into the building”: Barack Obama, Council on Foreign Relations, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., November 1, 2005.
Three months after: Barack Obama and Richard Lugar, Was.h.i.+ngton Post Post, December 3, 2005.
Then, appearing on ABC's: ”This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” ABC, September 11, 2005.
In an interview with the Tribune Tribune: Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Tribune, September 12, 2005.
”The burden is on us”: Ibid.
Eventually, Pete Rouse: Perry Bacon, Jr., Was.h.i.+ngton Post Post, August 27, 2007.
”Pete's very good”: Ibid.
The letter was ent.i.tled: Daily Kos, September 30, 2005.
Afterward, Obama used: Jodi Enda, ”Great Expectations,” The American Prospect The American Prospect, January 16, 2006.
”And the way I would describe”: Ibid.
Returning to Was.h.i.+ngton: Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Tribune, February 7, 2006.
”I obviously beaned him”: Mark Salter interview, ”Frontline,” PBS, May 30, 2008.
”The tone of the letter”: Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Tribune, February 8, 2006.
Before they testified: Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Tribune, February 9, 2006.
”What I am suggesting is this”: Barack Obama, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., June 28, 2006.
Valerie Jarrett says: Larissa MacFarquhar, ”The Conciliator,” The New Yorker The New Yorker, May 7, 2007.
”I thought these will be”: ”World News Tonight,” ABC, November 1, 2007.
On January 16, 2006: Balz and Johnson, The Battle for America 2008 The Battle for America 2008, p. 26.
”He has as much potential”: Jeff Zeleny, Chicago Tribune Tribune, November 20, 2005.
”When his name pops up”: Ibid.
”I thought, let's have a little fun”: Perry Bacon, Jr., Was.h.i.+ngton Post Post, August 27, 2007.
”I don't think George Bush”: Barack Obama, Harkin Steak Fry, Indianola, Iowa, September 17, 2006.
Ruy Teixeira of the Brookings: Alan Abramowitz and Ruy Teixeira, ”The Decline of the White Working Cla.s.s and the Rise of a Ma.s.s Upper Middle Cla.s.s,” Brookings Working Paper, April 2008.
When he called Obama: Bob Gilbert, ”The President Prediction,” Seton Hall Magazine Seton Hall Magazine, March 31, 2009.
”The United States was said”: Chisholm, The Good Fight The Good Fight, p. 162.
Chisholm, who died in 2005: Chisholm, Unbought and Unbossed Unbought and Unbossed, p. xii.
”My const.i.tuency”: Jesse Jackson, Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, July 17, 1984.