Notes
[1]
Epigraph: Pat Robertson, Transcript of Speech to The Economic Club of
Detroit, September 22, 1986. Ronnie Dugger, "Does Reagan Expect a
Nuclear Armageddon?" Washington Post, April 8, 1984.
[2]
William C. Martin, The Atlantic, June 1982. Cited in Dugger, April 8,
1984.
[3]
Pat Robertson, America's Dates With Destiny (Nashville, TN:
Thomas Nelson, 1986), p. 19.
[14]
Interview with authors, August 7, 1986.
[6]
"How God Speaks to People Today," nationwide poll conducted by The
Gallup Organization for the Christian Broadcasting Network, October
1986.
[8]
Quoted in "Idea of God's Guidance Accepted," Charlottesville Daily
Progress, December 9, 1986.
[9]
The first survey was published in 1975: Andrew Greeley, The
Sociology of the Paranormal: A Reconnaissance (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage
Publications). Preliminary results of the follow-up study appeared in an
article by Father Greeley in American Health, "Mysticism Goes
Mainstream," January/February 1987, pp. 47-49.
[13]
Bob Arnebeck,
"FDR Invoked God, Too," Washington Post, September 21, 1986.
[16]
Robert Dugan, in Washington Insight, 8
(November), 1986. Newsletter of the National Association of Evangelicals
Office of Public Affairs.
[17]
Interview with authors, December 18, 1986.
[18]
National Association of Evangelicals news release,
April 29, 1986.
[19]
Clifford Goldstein, "The Christian Right: Will It Bring Political
Pentecost to America?" Liberty 81 (November/December), 1986, p.
5.
[20]
Henry Klingeman, "I Just Called to Say I Love You," National Review,
November 7, 1986, p. 29.
[21]
Address to Virginia Republican Party Leadership Advance, December 6,
1986, Staunton, VA.
[22]
Ellen Hume, "Voters Seek a Leader Who is Both Strong and
Straightforward," Wall Street Journal, May 22, 1987.
[23]
Jim Castelli, "Pat Robertson: Extremist." Unpublished manuscript
(Washington, DC: People for the American Way, 1986).
[24]
Dick Daebney, "God's Own Network," Harper's,
August 1980, pp. 33-52.
[25]
Robert Dugan, in Washington Insight, 8 (November), 1986. Newsletter
of the National Association of Evangelicals Office of Public
Affairs.
