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Griffin, Merv, 74, 136, 202
Grunwald, Henry, 279
Gumbel, Bryant, xxv
Gutierrez, Thelma, 64
H
Haberman, Clyde, 155
Haberman, Maggie, 91
Haig, Al, 176, 183, 248
“Hail to the Chief,” 108, 183, 251, 268, 283
Haldeman, Bob, 217
Hall, Maggie, 229
Hamilton, Alexander, 28, 117, 177, 184
Hanna, Mark, 159
Hannaford, Peter, xx, 80, 89, 145, 152, 218, 321
Hanson, Kirby, 74, 110
Harding, Warren G., xxx, 114, 182, 232
Harrison, William Henry, 232
Harvard University, xxi, 158, 262
Hastert, Denny, 175, 185, 250
Hatfield, Mark, 114
Havel, Václav, 265
Hay, John, 28, 137
Hayakawa, S. I. “Sam,” 83
Hayes, Marilyn A., 280
headlines announcing Reagan’s death, 72
Healy, Bernadine, 103–4
Heinz, John, 246
Hellcats of the Navy (Reagan/Davis film), 84
Helms, Jesse, 53, 106
Helsinki Accords, 106
Herbert, Bob, 214
Herblock. See Block, Herbert
Heritage Foundation, 250
Hertsgaard, Mark, 227
Heston, Charlton, 19
Hinckley, John, xviii, xxi, 28, 88, 156, 195, 225, 233–34, 322
Hitchens, Christopher, xviii
Higdon, Robert, 2, 6, 10, 30, 42, 174, 181, 183, 246, 289
High Toryism, Reagan’s rejection of neo-conservatism and, 8
Hitler, Adolf, xxxii, 213
Hodel, Don, 259
Hollywood, silence of, following Reagan’s passing, 97
Hollywood Reporter, 84
Hollywood Walk of Fame, 116, 178
Hooley, Jim, 1, 2, 3, 11–20, 28, 30, 44, 68, 73, 74, 75, 89, 110, 112, 168, 174, 186, 188, 276, 278, 279, 288, 295–97, 299
Hoover, Herbert, 114, 316
Hoover, J. Edgar, 115
Hoover Institution, 289
Howe, Julia Ward, 243
Howe, Louis, 159
How We Die (Nuland), 3
Hudak, Kristen, 224
Hull, Cordell, 28, 244
Humphrey, Hubert, 12, 107, 119
Hunt, Guy, 12
Hunter, Stephen, xxvi–xxvii
Hutton, John, 52, 135, 136, 269
I
Ignatius, David, 204
inflation, xviii, 8, 198, 214, 228, 323
Ingraham, Laura, 248
In His Own Hand (Skinner, Anderson, and Anderson), xxxi
interest rates, xviii, 8, 96, 214, 323
International Monetary Fund, xxxii
Iran–Contra affair, xxix, 48, 58, 87, 94, 95, 99, 100, 188, 189, 190, 192, 197, 203, 226, 228
Iraq, 4, 21, 22, 26, 38, 103, 133, 154, 160, 223
Ivins, Molly, 197–98
J
Jackman, Galen, 74, 110, 182, 185, 208, 242, 252, 257, 269, 275
Jackson, Andrew, 21, 114, 177, 236
JAG, 274
Jefferson, Thomas, 125, 139, 140, 141, 142, 146, 184, 309, 310
Jenkins, Thomas, 206
Jennings, Peter, xv, 56–58, 235
John Paul II (pope), xxiv, 4, 24, 38
Johnson, Haynes, 95
Johnson, Lady Bird, 290
Johnson, Luci Baines, 281
Johnson, Lyndon (also LBJ), xvii, 9, 38, 66, 115, 116, 126, 156, 162, 206, 263, 270, 289, 304
Johnson, Paul, 118
Jorgensen, Marion, 277
Judge, Clark, 10, 89, 146, 218
June 5, xiv, 4, 37, 52, 53, 64, 66, 77, 310–11
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Nancy’s speech to the, 134
K
Kabaker, Susan Berger, 189
Kass, John, 215
Keel, Howard, 279
Keene, David, 220, 251
Keller, Helen, 244
Kelley, Kitty, 46
Kemp, Jack, 10, 53, 176, 235, 248, 281
Kemp, Joanne, 248
Kennedy, Anthony, 221, 281
Kennedy, Caroline. See Schlossberg, Caroline Kennedy
Kennedy, Jackie. See Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy
Kennedy, John F. (also JFK), xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, 4, 23, 46, 64, 66, 70, 76–77, 101, 102, 107, 114, 125, 126, 136, 153, 156, 157, 164, 177, 178, 209, 213, 217, 232, 238, 245, 247, 261, 289, 295, 305, 306, 309, 313, 319
Kennedy, John F., Jr., xvi, 77, 284
Kennedy, Patrick, 176
Kennedy, Robert (also RFK), xvii, 73, 77, 86, 126, 156, 262, 310
Kennedy, Ted, 77, 92, 211, 234
Kennedy Library. See presidential libraries
Kerik, Bernard B., 133
Kernell, Samuel, 261
Kerry, John, 21, 26, 39, 92, 112–13, 115, 132, 133, 159, 198, 199, 205, 216, 249
Kessler, Glenn, 202
Keynes, John Maynard, 310
Khachigian, Ken, 89, 188, 218
Killers, The (Reagan film), 61, 273
Kinder, Lorelei, 157
King, John, 68
King, Larry, 79, 279
King, Martin Luther, Jr., xvii, 156, 194, 244
Kings Row (film), 63, 315
Kirkland, Lane, 106
Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 3, 118, 175–76, 249, 259
Kissinger, Henry, 106, 258
Klinge, Kenny, 219–20
Knobloch, Alan, 248
Knute Rockne, All American (film), 6, 61, 88, 315
Koch, Ed, 155, 248
Koed, Betty, 162
Kohl, Helmut, 193
Kondic, Milan, 117
Koop, C. Everett, 156
Kramer, Larry, xviii
Krauthammer, Charles, xxiii
Kristol, William, 279
Kroc, Joan (née Mansfield), 147
Kroc, Ray, 147
Krugman, Paul, 155, 214
Kudlow, Larry, xxxii
Kuhn, Jim, 14–15, 16, 222
Kurtz, Howard, 227
Kushner, Harold, 252
L
Laar, Mart, 152
Laderman, Gary, 240
Lafayette Park, 4, 92
LaFeber, Walter F., 262
Laingen, Bruce, 189
Lake, Jim, 276
Lake, Jim (the younger), 276–77
LaKosh, Jeremy, 248
Lamb, Brian, 30
Lambro, Don, 235, 302
Landon, Michael, 160
Langley, Edward, 86, 87
Lapham, Lewis (Harper’s), xxx
Lasorda, Tommy, 277
Last Frontier
resort (Vegas), 63
LA Times, xxiii, 198, 205, 274
Latno, Art, 145
Lauder, Ron, 279
Laura (day nurse present at Reagan’s passing), 43
Lawford, Pat, 279
Laxalt, Paul, 91–92, 100, 164, 305–6
LBJ. See Johnson, Lyndon
Lear, Norman, 277, 279
Lebanon, 95, 100, 197
LeBlanc, Dennis, 81, 145, 147, 148–49, 150, 280, 287, 312
Lee, Robert E., 174
Lenin, Vladimir, 117, 152, 158
LeRoy, Mervyn, 84
Lewinsky, Monica, xxiv
Lewis, John, 211
Liasson, Mara, 313
Libby, I. Lewis “Scooter,” 5
liberalism, 26, 213, 235, 273
libraries. See presidential libraries
Lincoln, Abraham, xvi, xviii, 28, 64, 66, 67, 70, 73, 114, 125, 136–37, 165, 178, 184, 209, 212, 232, 237, 238, 258, 270, 305, 309, 310, 323
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 270
Lincoln, Robert, 270
Lister, Paul, 248
Little, Rich, 279
Littlefair, Andrew, 75, 109, 110, 112, 113, 296
Little Rock, AR, 93, 167–68
Lohan, Lindsay, 27
Long Goodbye, The (Davis), 42–43
Los Angeles Country Club, 224, 226
Los Angeles Times, xxiii, 198, 205, 274
Louisa (Reagan film), 61
Luckovich, Mike, 273
Luft, Lorna, 279
Lux Video Theatre, 85
Lyles, A. C., 113
M
MacArthur, Douglas, 53, 115, 153, 162
Madison, Dolley Payne Todd, 270
Madison, James, 270
mainstream media, xxv, xxvi, 229
Maltin, Leonard, 315
Manchester, William, 153, 310
Man of the House (O’Neill), xxiv
Manhunt (Swanson), 310
Mayflower Hotel, 68, 187, 222
Margolis, Jon, 89, 261
Marine Corps Band, 120
Marine One, 15, 131, 169
Marshall, George C., 28, 311
Marshall Plan, 311
Martin, Alberta, 154
Martin, Dean, 284
Maseng, Mari, 89, 218
Mason, Mrs. (and her kindergarten class), 281
Matthews, Chris, 279
Mayo Clinic, 49, 50, 128, 151, 301–2
McCarrick, Theodore Cardinal, 257
McCarthy, Tim, 67, 89, 195
McClellan, George, 237
McClellan, Scott, 65
McDowell, Jerry, 278
McFarlane, Bud, 248, 259
McGaughey, Patty, 245
McGee, Thomas D’Arcy, 254
McGovern, George, 107, 279
McGuirk, Brenda, 241
McKinley, William, 114, 232
McLaughlin, Ann, 259
Meacham, Jon, 141–42, 157
Meade, George, statue, 174
Meany, George, 107, 224
Meese, Ed, xxxii, 11, 28, 31, 33, 53, 57, 90, 164, 175, 218, 222, 248, 259, 260, 326
Meet the Press, 167
Mencken, H. L., 212
Meyerson, Harold, 71–72
Miami News, xxiii
Midler, Bette, xix
Mile Square Regional Park, 317
Millard, Candice, 310
Miller, Diane Disney, 308
Miller, Fred, 240–41
Miller, Jim, 100
Mitchum, Robert, 314
Mitterrand, François, 254, 324
monarchy, Reagan’s rejection of empire and, 8
Mondale, Walter, xxiii, xxxii, 248, 262
Monk, Peter, 220
Monroe, James, 183, 238
Montgomery Ward, Reagan’s application at, 124, 144
Moorpark Community College, 111
Moran, Jim, 211, 318–19
Morris, Edmund, 79–82
Morris, John, 158
Morsey, Chase, 224
Morton, Bruce, 94–95
Moscow State University, 158
Moseley, Cheryl, 277
Moseley, John, 277
Mourner’s Dance, The (Schrock), 178
Moynihan, Pat, 152, 167
MSNBC, 157–58
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 322
Mull, Karl, 150
Muller, Judy, 57
Mulroney, Brian, 41, 65–66, 100, 168, 221, 252, 254, 255, 292–93
Mulroney, Mila, 221
Murdoch, Rupert, 175, 279
Mussolini, Benito, xxxii
My Life (Clinton), 168
My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan, 122, 129, 161
N
Nashua Telegraph debate, 49
National Alzheimer’s Disease Month, 3
National Association of Broadcasters, incident during Reagan’s speech to the, xxv, 150
National Baseball Hall of Fame, 303
National Cathedral. See Washington National Cathedral
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum (OK), 141
National Public Radio (NPR), 49 95, 313
National Review, 9, 81, 85, 202, 408
National Security Planning Group, xxiii
National Spelling Bee, 6
National World War II Memorial, 22
Naval Air Station Point Mugu, 174, 268, 270, 275, 276, 282
Nazism, 37, 321
NBC, xxv, 47, 48, 71, 194, 217, 274
Neal, Patricia, 315
Neas, Ralph, 196
Neurology magazine, 52
New Deal
FDR’s, xxvi, 62, 159, 204
Reagan’s, 96
Newton, Wayne, 277
New York City: government not shut down for Reagan’s death, xvii, 155–56
New York Stock Exchange, 156,195
Newsweek, 156–57, 205, 285
New York Times (aka the Grey Lady), xvii, xx, xxii, 63, 95, 116, 118, 119, 154–55, 167, 204, 207, 214, 318
Nicaraguan Contras, 58
Nichols, Tommy, 280
Nielsen Media Research (aka the Nielson Company), xxiv, 157, 271
1980s
Clinton moniker for the (“Decade of Greed”), xiv, 99, 169
number of jobs created during the, 214
Niven, David, Jr., 279
Nixon, Pat Ryan, 19, 46, 249
Nixon, Richard, xxxi, 9, 14, 18, 19, 26, 38, 46, 62, 79, 102, 106, 115, 126, 136, 140, 147, 153, 156, 162, 169, 171, 187, 217, 231, 236, 245, 249, 263, 270, 289, 290, 304, 305, 306, 309, 310, 313
Nixon Library. See presidential libraries
Nixon in Winter (Crowley), 310
Nobel Committee, xxiv, 117
Nofziger, Franklyn (“Lyn�
��), 12, 15, 31, 33, 80, 83, 181, 220, 249, 279–80
Noonan, Peggy, xv, 89, 218, 219, 327
Normandy, France, 37–38m 65, 71, 72, 75, 132
Norquist, Grover, 92, 117–18, 177
North, Oliver, 100, 188
Notre Dame University, 6, 88, 158
Novak, Bob, xxix–xxx, 5, 62, 131
NPR (National Public Radio), 49, 95, 313
NSC (White House National Security Council), xxiii
Nyhan, David, 275
O
Obama, Barack, xxiv, xxxi, 6, 234, 302, 305, 322
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 210, 221, 252, 281
Oliphant, Pat, 97
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 4, 46, 76, 196, 289, 290
On Bended Knee (Hertsgaard), 227
O’Neill, Tip, xxiv, 21, 128, 203, 248
Onion, xxii
On the Outside Looking In (Mike Reagan), 122
Orange County Register, 317
Origins of Totalitarianism, The (Arendt), 213
Ortega, Daniel, 113
Osborne, Kathy, 14, 16, 280
Osterblom, Karen, 311
Osterblom, Ryan, 311
O’Sullivan, John, 9, 81
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 136, 319
Our Long, National Daydream, 214
P
Pacific Bell, 145
Page, Susan, xxiii
Paige, Leroy “Satchel,” 194
Paine, Thomas, 310
Panama Canal Treaties, 190
Panetta, Leon, 274
Parker, Fess, 75, 276
Parr, Jerry, 195, 233
Parry Lodge (UT), 153
Parvin, Landon, 89, 218–19
Pataki, George, 155
PATCO, 96
Paulson, Henry, 316
Pearl Harbor, xxxii, 70
Pearson, Ron, 321
Peden, Neal, 220
Pediatric AIDS Foundation, xxix
Peele, Roger, 233–34
Pelosi, Nancy, 185, 211
People for the American Way, 196
Peoria Journal Star, 5, 178, 278
Perle, Richard, 214
Pershing, John J., 115, 162
Peters, Mike, 97
Peterson family members, 269
Pew Research poll of Republicans, 229
Philadelphia Inquirer, 272
Phillips, Kevin, xix
Pickens, T. Boone, 102
Pierce, David Hyde, 280
Pierce, Sam, 260
Plame, Valerie, 21