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PERIODICALS
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Cato’s Letter
Chicago Tribune
Daily News (NY)
Dallas Morning News
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Edmonton Journal (Alberta)
Healthline
Human Events
Investor’s Business Daily
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Libertas
Life
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Miami Herald
National Review
Neurology
New York Post
New York Times
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Onion
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People
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Sacramento Bee
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Santa Barbara News-Press (CA)
Spokesman Review (WA)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Texas Monthly
The Bulletin’s Frontrunner
Time
Toledo Blade (OH)
Town & Country
Townhall
U.S. News & World Report
USA Today
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
Washington Star
Washington Times
NEWS WIRES
Agence France-Presse
Associated Press
United Press International
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CNN
C-SPAN
FOX News
MSNBC
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NPR
PBS
VIDEO MATERIALS
Citizens United Productions, “Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny”
College Republicans, “100th Anniversary of the College Republicans, Discussions with President Reagan”
Edmonds Associates Documentary, “Ronald Reagan: An American President”
Edmonds Associates Documentary, “Tribute to Ronald Reagan”
Enduring Freedom Productions, “Ronald Reagan: An American Journey”
MPI Media Group, “Ronald Reagan: The Great Communicator”
NBC News, “Ronald Reagan”
Passport Video, “Ronald Reagan His Life and Times: The Hollywood Years”
Passport Video, “Ronald Reagan His Life and Times: The Presidential Years”
PBS Home Video, “Reagan,” The Presidents Collection
Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, “The Reagan Years”
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, “November 7, 1988, President Reagan’s Speech at a Campaign Rally at the Community Concourse in Sand Diego California”
The Blackwell Corporation, “The Essential Ronald Reagan”
Time Life Video, “Salute to Reagan: A President’s Greatest Moments”
Young America’s Foundation, “Still Point In a Turning World: Ronald Reagan and His Ranch”
Young America’s Foundation, “50th Anniversary ’A Time for Choosing’ ”
Young America’s Foundation, “CBS: Reagan: The ’60 Minutes’ Interviews, 1975–1989”
OTHER MATERIALS
Alzheimer’s Association
Architect of the Capitol Archives
Archived Collection Military District of Washington
Archived Collection Reagan Ranch and Ranch Center
Archived Collection Strathearn Historical Park & Museum, Simi Valley Historical Society
Archived Collection, Breitbart
Archived Collection, Margaret Thatcher Foundation
Archived Collection, National Review
Archived Collection, Newsmax
Archived Collection, Reagan 2020
Archived Collection, The White House Office of the Press Secretary
Archived Collection, Townhall
Eureka College
General Electric Company, A Legacy Of Progress Collection
Life, “Remembering Reagan”
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Archives
Monticello Archives
National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Library of Medicine Archives
Presidential Records, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Private Archives Collection of Cal Thomas
Private Archives Collection of Attorney Sam Harrod
Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library
The World Bank Group Data
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. Energy Information Administration
United States Capitol Police Archives
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Santa Barbara, The American Presidency Project
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Archives
University of Notre Dame Archives
University of Texas at Austin Archives
Washington National Cathedral Records
INTERVIEWS
Ahearn, Rick. Interview by Craig Shirley. March 25, 2014.
Barbour, Haley. Interview by Craig Shirley. January 21, 2014.
Bond, Linda. Interview by Craig Shirley. April 15, 2014.
Bufkin, David. Interview by Craig Shirley. March 13, 2014.
Cannon, Carl. Interview by Craig Shirley.
Cannon, Lou. Interview by Craig Shirley. March 27, 2014.
Cannon, Lou. Interview by Craig Shirley. November 28, 2014.
Colo, Steve. Interview by Craig Shirley. June 3, 2014.
Dolan, Tony. Interview by Craig Shirley. April 1, 2014.
Dole, Bob. Interview by Craig Shirley.
Donatelli, Frank. Interview by Craig Shirley. February 20, 2014.
Drake, Joanne. Interview by Craig Shirley. February 20, 2014.
Drake, Joanne. Interview by Craig Shirley. January 17, 2014.
Drake, Joanne. Interview by Craig Shirley. January 29, 2014.
Drake, Joanne. Interview by Craig Shirley. March 19, 2014.
Duberstein, Ken. Interview by Craig Shirley. May 6, 2014.
Fisher, Marilyn. Interview by Craig Shirley. April 4, 2014.
Fisher, Marilyn. Interview by Craig Shirley. February 24, 2014.
Fisher, Marilyn. Interview by Craig Shirley. September 23, 2014.
Foster, Gary. Interview by Craig Shirley. April 28, 2014.
Foster, Gary. Interview by Craig Shirley. November 3, 2014.
Gaines, Gay. Interview by Craig Shirley.
Grande, Peggy. Interview by Craig Shirley. July 2, 2012.
Hannaford, Peter. Interview by Craig Shirley.
Higdon, Robert. Interview by Craig Shirley. May 30, 2014.
Hooley, Jim. Interview by Craig Shirley. August 1, 2013.
Hooley, Jim. Interview by Craig Shirley. December 5, 2014.
Hooley, Jim. Interview by Craig Shirley. March 7, 2014.
Hooley, Jim. Interview by Craig Shirley. October 30, 2014.
Jackman, Galen. Interview by Craig Shirley. May 14, 2014.
Judge, Clark. Interview by Craig Shirley. April 9, 2014.
Keene, David. Interview by Craig Shirley.
Kudlow, Larry. Interview by Craig Shirley. April 10, 2014.
Kuhn, James. Interview by Craig Shirley. September 3, 2014.
Lake, Jim. Interview by Craig Shirley. September 24, 2014.
LeBlanc, Dennis. Interview by Craig Shirley. May 31, 2012.
LeBlanc, Dennis. Interview by Craig Shirley. October 1, 2014.
Littlefair, Andrew. Interview by Craig Shirley. April 28, 2014.
Meacham, Jon. Interview by Craig Shirley. January 10, 2014.
Meese, Ed. Interview by Craig Shirley. March 19, 2014.
Morris, John. Interview by Craig Shirley.
Nofziger, Lyn. Interview by Craig Shirley.
Norquist, Grover. Interview by Craig Shirley.
Parvin, Landon. Interview by Craig Shirley. April 8, 2014.
Pearson, Ron. Interview by Craig Shirley. November 14, 2014.
Peele, Roger. Interview by Craig Shirley. May 9, 2014.
Rollins, Ed. Interview by Craig Shirley. May 2, 2014.
Rosebush, James. Interview by Craig Shirley. March 28, 2014.
Rosenker, Mark. Interview by Craig Shirley. February 26, 2014.
Ryan, Fred. Interview by Craig Shirley. January 17, 2014.
Ryan, Fred. Interview by Craig Shirley. July 31, 2013.
Ryan, Fred. Interview by Craig Shirley. March 5, 2014.
Schulz, Bill. Interview by Craig Shirley.
Short, Kristen. Interview by Craig Shirley. March 28, 2014.
Short, Marc. Interview by Craig Shirley. March 28, 2014.
Snyder, Dick. Interview by Craig Shirley. May, 2012.
Spencer, Stuart. Interview by Craig Shirley. February 4, 2014.
Wagner, Michael. Interview by Craig Shirley. March 24, 2014.
Weinberg, Mark. Interview by Craig Shirley. April 4, 2014.
Woodward, Michele. Interview by Craig Shirley. March 26, 2014.
INDEX
A
ABC News, xv, 40, 56–57, 58
“Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation” (Reagan essay), 322
Abramoff, Jack, 48
Abu Ghraib, 38
Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, Reagan’s induction into the, 24
ACLU, xix
ACTION, 249
Adams, John, 71, 224, 270, 300
Adams, Charles, 270
Afghanistan, 22, 26, 38, 58
After Hours (Thomas), xxix
AFL-CIO, 224
Ahearn, Pam, 221
Ahearn, Rick, 2, 12, 13, 16, 28, 44, 68, 168, 174, 182, 187, 221, 222, 241, 247, 249, 257, 295, 296–97
AIDS, xxii, xxiv, 81, 91, 156, 273, 311
Aiken, Robbie, 89, 241
Air Force One, 17, 68, 102, 234, 290
air traffic controllers, Reagan’s firing of, 96, 192
Albert, Eddie, 23
Alexander, Phil, 220
Allen, Ira, xxv
Allen, Richard (aka Dick), 28, 248, 260, 326
Altman, Lawrence, xxii
al-Yawar, Ghazi Ajil, 160
Alzheimer, Alois, 3
Alzheimer’s Association, 3, 119, 271
Alzheimer Association’s Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute, 119
Alzheimer’s disease, xiv, xx, xxii, xxix, xxxi, 1, 6, 20, 29, 35, 41, 44–46, 49–52, 57, 59, 77, 80, 121, 123, 124–25, 129, 133–35, 150, 178, 194, 222, 223, 225, 229, 271, 272, 300, 301, 305, 310, 312, 314
beginning of public discussion about, following Reagan’s death, 125
fundamental pathology of, 3
letter from Reagan to the American people following his diagnosis of, xiv, 50–51, 119
number of Americans afflicted, and projections concerning, 125
what the disease does, exactly, 103–4
Alzheimer’s Foundation, 122
“Amazing Grace
,” 66, 102, 183, 250, 254, 283
Ambrose, Stephen, xviii
American Life, An (Reagan autobiography), 58–59, 146, 311
American University, 12, 198
Anderson, Annelise, xxiii, xxxi
Anderson, John, 60, 324
Anderson, Martin, 33
Anderson, Marty, xxiii, xxiv, xxxi, 31, 260
Andrews, Dana, 62
Andrews, LaVerne, 71
Andrews Air Force Base, 3, 16, 17, 74, 131, 174, 188, 263, 264, 275
ANSWER (leftist group), xxi
AP. See Associated Press
Apotheosis of Washington, 183
Arendt, Hannah, 213
Arlington Cemetery, 166, 208, 238
arms race, 171, 172
Armstrong, Lance, 167
Ashcroft, John, 162
Ashenburg, Katherine, 178
Assassins (play), xvii–xviii
Associated Press (AP), 4, 5, 47, 54, 88, 94, 95, 99, 239
Astaire, Fred, 86
Astor, Brooke, 279
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 273
Atwater, Lee, xxiii
“Ave Maria” (Schubert), 243, 254
B
Bacharach, Burt, 279
Baird, Boydson, 206–7
Baker, Howard, 190–91, 221, 222, 248
Baker, James “Jim,” 11, 16, 28, 53, 83, 152, 164, 218, 222, 248, 258, 280, 281
Bakker scandal, Jim and Tammy Faye, xxiii
Bakshian, Aram, 220, 329
Baldrige, Malcolm, 260
Baldrige, Tish, 279
Ball, Lucille, 71
Barbour, Haley, 227, 302
Barletta, John, 32, 150, 226
Barone, Michael, 71, 242
Barrett, Laurence, xxi
BATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives), 39
“Battle Hymn of the Republic,” 183, 243, 257
Bauer, Gary, 224
Beahrs, Oliver “Ollie,” 50, 52
Beschloss, Michael, 99, 151
Bedford High School (MI), 133
Bedtime for Bonzo (Reagan film), 61, 273, 318
Begala, Paul, 306
Bel Air Presbyterian Church, 32, 73, 109, 285
Benetton Group (Italian clothing retailer), xxii