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.