Ryan, Jack, 5–6
Ryan, Jeri, 5
S
Saddam Hussein, 22, 36–37
Sakharov, Andrei, 100
SALT treaties, 171
Sam & Harry’s, gathering at, 219
Samuelson, Robert, 228
Santayana, George, xxxiii
Scalia, Antonin, 221–22, 323–24
Scarbrough, Shelby, 16
Schlafly, Phyllis, 312
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., xviii, 136
Schlossberg, Caroline Kennedy, 248
Schlossberg, Edwin, 248
Schmidt, Helmut, 324
Schneider, Bill, 94
Schrock, Aline, 178
Schroeder, Pat, 63
Schultz, Debbie Wasserman, 211
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 113, 277
Schweiker, Claire, 93–94, 219, 280
Schweiker, Richard (Dick), 28, 93–94, 219, 220, 259, 280
Scott, George C., 160
Scott, Randolph, 62
Screen Actors Guild, 84, 97, 113, 160, 315, 317
Sears, John, 159, 220
Secret Service, xxii, xxv, 16, 32, 34, 67, 75, 80, 89, 110, 125, 127, 142, 145, 150, 188, 223, 225, 232, 263, 270, 271, 288, 295, 322
Selleck, Tom, 277
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, xxxi, 4, 25, 40, 72, 116, 156, 162, 175
Sergeant York (horse), 178, 181
Service, Robert, 293
Seward, William, 28
Sexy Years, The (Somers), 167
Shaack, Dr. (attending physician at Reagan’s death), 43
Shaddick, Ray, 195
Shakespeare, William (aka “the Bard”), 58, 272, 297
Shales, Tom, 247, 292
Sharansky, Natan, 243
Shaw, Bernie, xxx–xxxi
Sheridan, Ann, 315
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 311
Shields, Mark, 262
Shirley, John, 35
Shister, Gail, 272
Short, Bobby, 279
Short, Marc, 148, 149–50
Short, Kristen, 148, 149
Shortley, Maiselle, 220
Shriver, Maria, 113, 277
Shultz, George, 28, 176, 183, 218, 221, 248, 277, 279
Sidey, Hugh, 269, 279
Siena Research Institute, 322–23
Simes, Dimitri, 319
Simi Valley, CA, xiv, xx, xxi, 20, 23, 56, 64, 66, 68, 70, 102, 109, 110, 112, 117, 139, 165, 178, 188, 202, 270, 282, 289, 299, 300, 307, 308
Simpson, Nicole Brown, 303
Simpson, O. J., 5
Sinatra, Barbara, 277
Sinatra, Frank, 196, 277, 284
Sinatra, Frank, Jr., 279
Sinatra, Nancy, 279
Singlaub, John, 188
Skinner, Kiron, xxxi, 320, 321
Sleepwalking Through History, 214
Smith, Adam, 310
Smith, Al, 320
Smith, Alexis, 62
Smith, Bev, 196
Smith, Gene, 309
Smith, Kate, 73
Smith, Loren, 220
Smith, William Kennedy, 234
Smith College, 41, 55, 120, 180, 318
Snider, Ashley Parker, 75
Snyder, Dick (Lt.), 37
Snyder, Howard, 126
Solcoff, Taryn, 99
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 105–7, 108, 117, 243
Somers, Suzanne, 167, 279
Sotheby’s, 147
South Bend, IN, 6
“South Succotash,” 141
Souza, Pete, 14, 132, 142, 193, 194, 311
Soviet Union, 48, 58, 90, 95, 106, 107, 172, 192, 204, 209, 214, 216, 311, 313, 319, 320–21, 322, 323
Speakes, Larry, 249, 320
Speer, Albert, 22
Spencer, Stu, 29, 41, 81, 140, 225
Springer, Rick, xxv, 150
Springfield, IL, 137, 212, 237
Stack, Robert, 17
Stalin, Joseph, 106, 117, 152, 158, 160, 213
Stallion Road (Reagan film), 62
Stanford University, 289, 313
Stanwyck, Barbara, 62, 315
Starr, Kevin, 69
Star Wars, 58, 313
state funerals, xiv, 20, 64, 67, 68, 88, 114–15, 116, 162, 165, 189, 231, 232, 236, 241, 242
Steinbrenner, George, 279
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, 233, 234, 322
stem cell research, 59, 122, 229
Stephanopoulos, George, 122, 235
Stern, Howard, 222
Stevens, John Paul, 221
Stevens, Ted, 185
Stevenson, Adlai, 61
Stewart, Jimmy, 160, 279, 314, 315
Stewart, Martha, 190
Stewart, William, 95
Stimson, Henry, 28
Stockman, David, xxi, 60, 248, 248
Stolberg, Sheryl Gay, 207
Stone, Roger, 220
Storm Warning (film), 315
Strategic Defense Initiative (also SDI), 132, 173, 203, 321
Streisand, Barbra, 159
Students for Peace, 148
Swanson, James L., 310
Swartz, Donald, 290, 313
Symonds, James A., 284
T
Taft, William Howard, 114, 238
Tampico, IL (Reagan birthplace), 55, 56, 116, 118, 177, 178, 186, 265
Tapscott, Mark, 89
“Taps,” xv, 284
Tate, Sheila, 127
Tau Kappa Epsilon, 248, 307–8
Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982. See TEFRA
Taylor, Robert, 61, 160, 315
Tear Down This Myth (Bunch), xxi
TEFRA (Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982), xxiv
television, the presidents’ use of, 306
Tenet, George, 22, 25–26
Tennessee Valley Authority, 85
Terry, Grey, 295
Terry, Mary Sue, 250
Texaco Star Theatre, 194
Thatcher, Margaret, xxiv, 24, 35, 52–53, 58, 79, 100, 101, 103, 108, 115, 143, 149, 168, 183, 186, 221, 227, 252, 253–54, 281, 292
Thomas, Cal, xxiii, xxix, 251, 275
Thomas, Clarence, 39
Thomas, Evan, 126
Tidmarsh, David, 6
Time magazine, 156–57
Titus, Dinah, 319
Today show, xxv
Todd, John Payne, 270
Toles, Tom, xxiii–xxiv
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, 208
torture, 103
Totten, Don, 220
Town & Country, 147
Trader, Wanita, 88
Travolta, John, 279
Trilateral Commission,
40
Triumph of Politics, The (Stockman), xxi
Truman, Harry, xxvii, 7, 9, 62, 107, 125, 162, 236, 306, 309, 324
Tucker, Sophie, 84
Turner, Ted, 63
Tuttle, Bob and Maria, 279
Tutu, Desmond, 255
Tynan, Ronan, 254
TVA, 85
21-gun salute, 16, 165, 183, 271, 288
Twilight at Monticello (Crawford), 310
U
unemployment, 8, 214, 323
United Press International, xxv, 38, 77
United States Capitol rotunda. See Rotunda
Universal Studios, 19
University of California–Berkeley, 148, 274
University of Oxford, 151
Unknown Soldiers, 115, 165
UPI (United Press International), xxv, 38, 77
USA PATRIOT Act, 133
USA Today, xxiii
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 214
U.S. Department of Education, 216–17
U.S. Department of Energy, 216–17
U.S. News & World Report, xix, 103
USS Ronald Reagan, 59, 118, 180, 284
V
Van Buren, Martin, 21
Vanderbilt, Gloria, 279
Vanity Fair, 202
Vargas, Elizabeth, 122
Vatican, 4, 26
Vietnam War, 26, 94, 301
Villa, Pancho, 311
Violent Femmes, 274
Virginia Military Institute, 2
Visions Bar Noir (DC), 273
von Damm, Helene, 220
Vonnegut, Kurt, 86
W–X
Wagner, Lorraine, 172–73, 181
Wagner, Mike, 44, 242
Wałęsa, Lech, 24, 247
Wallace, George, 95–96, 228
Wallace, Mike, 41, 134
Wallace, Randall, 308
Wall Street Journal, xviii–ixx, xxxii, 219, 318
Wall Street’s honoring of Reagan, 195
Walsh, Lawrence, 94, 192–93, 228
Walters, Barbara, 121–22, 245, 279
Wark, Steve, 190
Warner Bros. Studios, 61, 124, 315
Warsaw Pact countries, xxi, 106, 209
War on Terror, 4, 192, 216
Washington, George, xviii, xxiii, 10, 11, 28, 71, 125, 156, 165, 184, 209, 212, 236–37, 244, 303, 320, 323
Washington National Cathedral, xxxi, 56, 66–67, 101, 168, 183, 186–89, 222, 229, 232, 235, 238, 239, 241, 242, 244, 250–59, 263, 304, 308
Washington Monument, 163, 177, 179
Washington Post, xv, xxvii–xviii, xxvi, 57, 72, 95, 97, 172, 182, 202–4, 222, 227, 228, 234, 235, 240–41, 246, 247, 273, 292, 318
Washington Star, 193
Washington State Democrats’ moment of silence of Reagan, 92–93
Washington Times, xviii, 234–35, 241, 262, 300–1
Wasserman Schultz, Debbie, 211
Watergate, xviii, 153, 187, 234
Watt, James, 189
Wayne, John, 62, 160, 279, 291, 314
Weber, Wendy, 77
Weicker, Lowell, 99–100
Weinberg, Mark, 34, 190, 263–64, 280
Weinberger, Caspar, xxxii, 28, 38, 65, 248
Weiner, Anthony, 190
Weisbrot, Mark, 191–92
Welles, Orson, 314
Wenning, Michael, 109, 285
Wertheimer, Fred, 49
Wertheimer, Linda, 49
West, Bryce, and mother, Terri, 113
westerns starring Reagan, 62
Weyrich, Paul, 10
When the Cheering Stopped (Smith), 309–10
White House National Security Council, xxiii
Wick, Charlie 74, 133, 134, 135
Wick, Douglas, 133–34
Wick, Mrs. Mary Jane, 74, 134
Wilentz, Sean, 212
Will, George, 96–97, 99, 106, 191
Will, Mari Maseng, 218
Williams, Andy, 279
Williams, Brian, xxiv
Williams, Carol, 173, 205
Williams, Tennessee, 71
Williams, Walter, xix
William Woods College, Reagan’s commencement address at, 112
Wills, Garry, 202
Wilson, Bill, 128
Wilson, Diana, 269
Wilson, Edith, 244
Wilson, Harold, 207
Wilson, Joanne, 207
Wilson, Joseph C. (husband of Valerie Plame), 21
Wilson, Pete, 83, 277
Wilson, Woodrow, 27, 125, 126, 212, 238, 244, 309, 310
Winter, Tom, 187
Winthrop, John, 252
Wirthlin, Dick, 159
Wolfowitz, Paul, 63, 214
Woodruff, Judy, 148
Woodward, C. Vann, 118
Woodward, Michele, 263, 264
World War II, xxxii, 22, 54, 284
World War II Memorial, 22
Worthington, Mark, 116
Wright, James E., 239
Wyman, Jane, xxviii, 59, 86, 123, 280, 285, 291, 315
Y
Yankee Stadium, 73
Yeats, William Butler, 297
Yellowstone Neurosurgical, 277
Yeltsin, Boris, 129
Young Americans for Freedom, 131, 148
Young America’s Foundation, 141, 146–47, 150, 224, 321
Z
Zahedi, Ardeshir, xvii
Zahn, Paula, 63–64
Zapruder, Abraham, 136
Zimbalist, Efrem, Jr., 113
Zimbalist, Stephanie, 113
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Craig Shirley is the author of two critically praised bestselling books on President Reagan, Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America and Reagan’s Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All.
His third book December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World appeared multiple times on the New York Times bestselling lists in December 2011 and January 2012.
Shirley is the chairman of Shirley & Banister Public Affairs, was chosen in 2005 by Springfield College as their Outstanding Alumnus, and has been named the Visiting Reagan Scholar at Eureka College, Ronald Reagan’s alma mater, where he taught a course titled “Reagan 101.” He is also a trustee of Eureka.
His books have been hailed as the definitive works on the Gipper’s campaigns of 1976 and 1980 and the post-presidential years. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Reagan Ranch and has lectured at the Reagan Library. He has spoken at the University of Virginia, Georgetown, Hillsdale College, Regent University, and many other colleges and universities.
Shirley, a widely sought after speaker and commentator, has written extensively for the Washington Post, the Washington Examiner, the Washington Times, the Los Angeles Times, Town Hall, the Weekly Standard, Newsmax, Breitbart, National Review
, and many other publications. He also edited the book Coaching Youth Lacrosse for the Lacrosse Foundation.
Shirley and his wife, Zorine, reside at “Ben Lomond,” a 1730 Georgian-style home in Tappahannock, Virginia, and at “Trickle Down Point” on the Rappahannock River in Lancaster, Virginia. They are parents of four children, Matthew, Andrew, Taylor, and Mitchell. Shirley’s varied interests include writing, sailing, waterskiing, sport shooting, renovating buildings, and scuba diving. He was a decorated contract agent for the Central Intelligence Agency.
He is currently finishing work on Citizen Newt, a political biography of Newt Gingrich; a biography of Dr. Howard Snyder, the personal physician to Dwight Eisenhower; a fourth book on Reagan entitled Wilderness; and the life story of Mary Ball Washington.
Last Act is his third book on Ronald Reagan.
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