Bush tried to protect himself by quitting the Trilateral Commission, and also the Council on Foreign Relations. Theodore “Teddy” White, the Making of the President chronicler, was impressed that he went no further than that. “As a civilized person,” Bush “could not, or would not, court the Moral Majority, the right-to-life movement, the National Rifle Association.” This, however, was a mistaken impression. As Dick Wirthlin observed in a Reagan strategy memo, “Bush’s
