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16. Craig Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America (Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2011), 599.
17. Steve Johnson, “Coverage of Funeral Best When Anchors Kept Silent,” Chicago Tribune, June 12, 2004, 25.
18. Lou Cannon, “Actor, Governor, President, Icon,” Washington Post, June 6, 2004, A28.
19. Robert G. Kaiser, “Gorbachev: ’We All Lost Cold War,’ ” Washington Post, June 11, 2004, A1.
20. Associated Press, “Text of Bush’s Tribute to Reagan,” June 11, 2004.
21. Joanne Drake, in discussion with the author, March 19, 2014.
22. Nancy Reagan, Invitation, “Ronald Wilson Reagan, February 6, 1911 to June 5, 2004,” July 14, 2004, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA.
23. Nancy Reagan to Charles Z. Wick, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA.
24. Nancy Reagan to the Citizens of Simi Valley, June 18, 2004, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA.
25. Nancy Reagan to Honorable George H.W. Bush, June 15, 2004, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA.
26. Nancy Reagan, “Ronnie Touched So Many of Us,” Los Angeles Times, July 4, 2004, 4.
27. Timothy L. Taschwer to Joanne Drake, June 25, 2004, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA.
28. Randall Wallace to Nancy Reagan, June 28, 2004, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA.
29. Diane Disney Miller to Joanne Drake, June 21, 2004, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA.
30. Ronald Reagan, “Address at Commencement Exercises at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado,” May 30, 1984, www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/53084a.htm.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
1. Ronald Reagan, “Ronald Reagan’s Announcement for Presidential Candidacy,” November 13, 1979, www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/reference/11.13.79.html.
2. William Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman (Carlisle, MA: Applewood, 2008), 543.
3. Ronald Reagan, An American Life: The Autobiography (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), 145–6.
4. Associated Press, “As President, Reagan Helped Save Life of Orlando-Area Boy,” June 5, 2004.
5. Pete Souza, “Along For the Ride of a Lifetime,” Chicago Tribune, June 7, 2004, 1.
6. Associated Press, “Southeast Man Remembers Exchanging Letters with Reagan as a Boy,” June 6, 2004.
7. E. J. Dionne Jr., “G.O.P. Makes Reagan Lure of Young a Long-Term Asset,” New York Times, October 31, 1988, A1.
8. Fred Ryan, in discussion with the author, July 31, 2013.
9. Susan Page, “A ’Folklore’ President Who Led a Revolution,” USA Today, January 20, 2011, 1A.
10. Michael Tackett and Jeff Zeleny, “Reagan Still Looms Large within GOP,” Chicago Tribune, June 7, 2004, 13.
11. New York Times, “Prepared Text for the President’s State of the Union Message,” January 24, 1996, A14.
12. NPR News Special Report, “Imprint Left by Ronald Reagan on the American Political Landscape,” National Public Radio, June 5, 2004.
13. Sam Enriquez, “Ventura County Site Picked for Reagan Library,” Los Angeles Times, November 14, 1987, 1.
14. Washington Post, “Presidential Library Museum Attendance,” February 23, 2015, A4.
15. Roger Rosenblatt, “Out of the Past, Fresh Choices for the Future,” Time, January 5, 1981, 13.
16. Edwin Schallert, “Mary Martin Chosen Outdoor Music Star,” Los Angeles Times, December 2, 1941, 10.
17. Vincent J. Schodolski, “Reagan Dies,” Chicago Tribune, June 6, 2004, 1.
18. Ibid.
19. Robert K. Elder, “All-American Appeal Carried Him to Heights,” Chicago Tribune, June 6, 2004, 17.
20. Ibid.
21. Chuck Conconi, “Personalities,” Washington Post, September 16, 1987, D3.
22. Elder, “All-American Appeal Carried Him to Heights.”
23. Schodolski, “Reagan Dies.”
24. NPR News, “Imprint Left by Ronald Reagan on the American Political Landscape.”
25. Dena Bunis, “Ronald W. Reagan; At Home in O.C.,” Orange County (CA) Register, June 6, 2004.
26. Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter: A Memoir (Boston: Little, Brown, 1989), 118.
27. Howell Raines, “From Film Star to Candidate: Ronald Wilson Reagan,” New York Times, July 17, 1980, A1.
28. R. C. Longworth, “End of the Cold War,” Chicago Tribune, June 6, 2004, 11.
29. NewsNight with Aaron Brown, “Ronald Reagan Dies,” CNN, June 5, 2004.
30. James R. Dickenson, “Carter and Reagan Parry Politely at an Al Smith Dinner Encounter,” Washington Star, October 17, 1980, A1.
31. NewsNight with Aaron Brown, “Ronald Reagan Dies,” CNN, June 5, 2004.
32. Vladimir Isachenkov, “Reagan Remembered for Ending Soviet Rule,” Associated Press, June 5, 2004.
33. Ron Pearson, in discussion with the author, November 14, 2014.
34. Peter Hannaford, Presidential Retreats: Where the Presidents Went and Why They Went There (New York: Threshold Editions, 2012), 264.
35. William P. Clark, “For Reagan, All Life Was Sacred,” New York Times, June 11, 2004, A27.
36. Letter from Nancy Reagan to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, Office of Nancy Reagan, September 11, 2003, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA.
37. Mallie Jane Kim, “Survey Ranks Obama 15th Best President, Bush Among Worst,” USNEWS.com, July 2, 2010, www.usnews.com/news/articles/2010/07/02/survey-ranks-obama-15th-best-president-bush-among-worst.
38. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Unemployment Rate,” accessed December 15, 2014, http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet.
39. Ted Anthony, “Mourning in America: The Great Communicator Remembered,” Associated Press, June 5, 2004.
40. Ted Anthony, “U.S. and the World Mourn Reagan’s Death,” Associated Press, June 5, 2004.
41. Harry Levins, “The Great Communicator Ronald Reagan 1911–2004,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 6, 2004, A1.
42. David Von Drehle, “Reagan Hailed as Leader for ’the Ages,’ ” Washington Post, June 12, 2004, A1.
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