Koreagate, 42–43, 101, 250
Korean War, 16, 17, 60
Kramer, David, 21
Kristol, William, 305
Kushner, Jared, 2
Lamb, Brian, 62, 74–75, 89
Langley, John, 315n8
“Language: A Key Mechanism of Control” (Gingrich and Luntz), 294
Larry King Live, 121, 134
Lawrence, William, 163
League of Conservation Voters, 25
Leahy, Patrick, 261
Lebanon, 106
Lee, Bill, 61–63, 68
Leland, Mickey, 261
Leno, Jay, 171, 258
Lewinsky, Monica, 223, 302
Lewis, Jerry, 180–81, 185, 192, 194
Limbaugh, Rush, 167
Livingston, Robert, 126, 302
Lofton, John, 45
Logan Act, 67
Los Angeles Times, 127, 128, 132, 195, 205, 208, 232, 233, 239, 246, 263
Lott, Trent, 63–64, 72, 80–84, 116, 155, 179
Lucas, Wingate, 93
Lukens, Donald, 258
Lunden, Joan, 260
Lungren, Daniel, 75, 104–5, 210
Luntz, Frank, 294
Luther, Martin, 125
Lyman, Marshall, 127, 128, 130–31, 142, 202
Lyndon Baines Johnson Institute, 202
Lyons, Tracey, 122–23
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 187
Mack, Connie, 63, 117
Mack, John Paul, 116, 218–38, 245, 274–75
resignation of, 235, 236, 238, 241
Mack, Kim, 228, 235
MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, The, 188
MacPherson, Myra, 287
Madigan, Edward, 181–82, 185–88, 191–94
Maguire, Andrew, 42–43
Mahe, Eddie, 32–33, 294
Mair, George, 127–28
Making of the President 1960, The (White), 19–20
Mallick, George, 108–12, 200, 201, 206, 208, 210, 213, 246, 250, 252–53, 256, 263, 271
Mallick, Marlene, 110
Mallightco, 109–10, 200, 201, 250
Manafort, Paul, 2, 10
Mann, Gerald, 91
Mann, Thomas, 303
Mao Zedong, 295
Martin, Lynn, 231
Matthews, Chris, 70
Mavroules, Nicholas, 228
McCain, John, 178–79
McCandless, Bob, 261–62
McCarthy, Joe, and McCarthyism, 67, 71, 73, 88, 213, 264, 298, 301
Gingrich compared to, 301, 302
McCloskey, Frank, 78–83, 104, 105
McConnell, Mitch, 303
McDade, Joseph, 215
McFall, John, 42, 101
McGovern, George, 65, 66, 69, 140
McGrory, Mary, 173
McIntyre, Richard, 78–83
McIntyre, Thomas, 36
McPherson, Newton, Jr., 14–15
Medicaid, 95, 327n5
Medicare, 95, 327n5
Meese, Edwin, 106, 132, 136, 138, 147–48, 249
Megatrends (Naisbitt), 59
Michel, Robert, 41, 84, 114, 135, 138, 141–42, 167, 286–87, 295, 312n9
congressional pay raise and, 173
contested Indiana election and, 81, 83
corruption and, 155–56, 160–61
elected minority leader, 50
Gingrich and, 56, 60–61, 64, 88–89, 167, 162, 184, 282–84, 296–97, 298
minority whip position and, 181–82, 184–86, 188, 191–92, 194–95
O’Neill and, 72, 74
retirement of, 296, 298
Wright and, 88–89, 161, 195, 211, 241–42, 267–68
Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, 202
Middle East, 136
military spending, 34, 50, 54, 55, 69, 177, 297
Milken, Michael, 238
Miller, Eugene, murder of, 92–93, 158
Miller, George, 115–16, 295
Miller, James, 115
Mills, Wilbur, 29–30
Millsap, Burch, 227
Mineta, Norman, 171
Mitchell, Andrea, 233
Mitchell, George, 168
Moakley, Joe, 72, 73
Mollohan, Alan, 152, 209
Moncrief, Monty, 110–11
Mondale, Walter, 25, 78, 176
Montgomery, David, 108–9, 222
Moore, William Carlos, 112–13, 139–40, 201–2
Morella, Constance, 231
Morganthau, Tom, 287–88
Mother Jones, 76–77, 189
Murray, Hyde, 161
Myers, John, 151, 153, 212, 246, 255, 272
Myers, Michael “Ozzie,” 164, 263
NAACP, 42
Nader, Ralph, 99, 122, 151, 166–67
Nagle, Dave, 242–44, 267, 280
Naisbitt, John, 59
National Association of Realtors, 202
National Committee for an Effective Congress, 25
National Educational Television Network, 95–96
National Journal, 117, 234, 305
National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), 33, 36, 45, 80, 176–77, 194, 234, 287, 298
Gingrich’s Project Majority report for, 46–47
National Review, 184
National Security Council, 105–6, 117–18
National Taxpayers Union, 165
National Zoo, 300
NATO, 281
NBC, 46, 47, 79, 120, 232–33, 246
Neptune Oil, 139, 140
New Deal, 8, 28, 50, 54, 88, 95, 102, 103, 151
New Georgia Leader, 34
New Republic, 105, 148–49
New Right, 27–28, 114, 290
Newsweek, 76, 108, 122, 128, 135, 150, 169, 229, 287–88
New Yorker, 234
New York Times, 45, 108, 122, 130–32, 140, 141, 155, 159, 195–96, 205, 208, 209, 212, 232, 238, 243, 280, 301
Nicaragua, 64–67, 71, 75, 158, 184
Iran-contra scandal, 105–6, 117–18, 136, 158, 180
nonmilitary aid to contras in, 214
Wright and, 118–22, 128, 141, 158, 263
Nixon, Richard, 20, 22, 29, 56–57, 62, 65, 100, 136, 156, 168, 217, 293
“Checkers” speech of, 211
Gingrich’s meeting with, 56–57
1960 presidential campaign of, 19
resignation of, 7, 27, 99, 269
Nofziger, Lyn, 76, 137
Norsworthy, Skeeter, 26
North, Oliver, 106, 117–18, 136, 180, 249
Novak, Bob, 45
Nunn, Sam, 177, 178
Obama, Barack, 3, 9, 303–5
Obando y Bravo, Miguel, 119
Obey, David, 70–71, 243, 271, 279–80
O’Donnell, Kirk, 127
oil industry, 90, 92, 109–12
Exxon Valdez, 244
Wright and, 109–12, 133, 139, 140, 202, 206, 259–60
Oldaker, William, 142–43, 146, 198–201, 203, 205, 217, 232
O’Neill, Tip, 8, 34, 42, 44, 49–50, 52, 60, 67, 69, 70–75, 79, 83, 84, 87, 103, 104, 108, 121, 123, 127
book of, 272
rebuke of, 73
retirement of, 86, 105
Ornstein, Norm, 303
Ortega, Daniel, 66
Wright’s meetings with, 119–21
Osborne, David, 76–77
Paine, Thomas, 287
Panama Canal, 34
Panetta, Leon, 82, 83
Park, Tongsun, 42
partisanship and polarization, 6, 142, 265, 292–93
of Gingrich, 5–6, 9, 11, 38, 81, 187, 297, 301, 30
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as inevitable, 292
in nineteenth century, 68
of Republicans, 5–6, 9, 11
scandal wars and, 293–94
takedowns and, 283–85, 293–94
Pashayan, Charles “Chip,” 151, 255
Patman, Wright, 30
Pauly, David, 108
Paxon, Bill, 298
Payte, Gene, 272
PBS, 188
Pearl Harbor, 51, 91
Pence, Mike, 2, 5, 10
Pentagon contracts, 136
Pepper, Claude, 172, 266
Peters, Thomas, 59
Petri, Tom, 151
Phelan, Pope & John, 153
Phelan, Richard, 152–54, 157–58, 198–210, 212, 213, 215, 247–60, 262, 265, 270–72, 284
mugging of, 208
Phillips, Don, 231
Pitts, Billy, 74
Poage, William R., 30, 142
Poindexter, John, 106, 136
populism:
Gingrich and, 22, 167, 304
Wright and, 271
pork-barrel spending, 94–95, 98, 105, 315n8
post office scandal, 296
poverty, 95
Powell, Adam Clayton, 41–42
presidential elections:
of 1980, 8, 10, 47–49, 102, 137
of 1984, 63, 78, 137, 176
of 1988, 135–38, 161
of 1994, 297–98
of 2012, 1–2, 303–4
of 2016, 10, 305
Project Majority, 46–47
Public Citizen, 166
public works programs, 31
Pyne, Joe, 166
Quayle, Dan, 178
racism, 24, 41, 43, 92
radio, 167
talk, 166–68, 171, 174, 203, 233–34
Rangel, Charles, 71–72
Ray, Elizabeth, 30
Rayburn, Sam, 32, 75, 88, 94, 96, 100–101, 142, 163, 172, 256, 264
Reagan, Ronald, 4, 11, 31, 46, 47, 49–50, 57, 61, 87, 88, 103, 104, 123, 150, 152, 154, 161, 162, 167, 174, 183, 186, 214, 264, 291, 297–98
approval ratings of, 106
assassination attempt on, 54
Atwater and, 137
budget bill and, 114–15
Bush and, 135
Central America and, 64–67, 69, 71, 75, 118–22, 158
congressional pay raise and, 168, 169, 173
elected president, 8, 10, 47–49, 102, 137
first year as president, 54
government salary increases and, 164–65
inaugural address of, 48
Iran-contra and, 105–6, 117–18
1986 midterm elections and, 105
reelection of, 78, 137, 176
scandals in administration of, 105–6, 117–18, 133, 136, 147–48, 173
Wright and, 104, 118–22, 147
Reagan Democrats, 47
Reagan Recession, 57
Reagan Revolution, 4, 50, 57, 88, 104, 105, 159, 162, 184, 296
Reflections of a Public Man (Wright), 112–13, 197, 200–202, 206, 271–72
reforms, 99, 293
Common Cause and, see Common Cause
on honoraria, 164–66, 169, 201–2, 273
post-Watergate, 6–8, 57–58, 62, 99–101, 126–27, 142, 148, 153, 280, 291, 293
Wright and, 100–102
Regardie’s, 129, 130, 200
Rehm, Diane, 229
Reid, T. R., 74
religious conservatives, 27
Remnick, David, 305
Republican National Committee (RNC), 32–33, 135, 176, 179, 192, 282, 286, 288
Atwater as chair of, 174, 175
summer meeting of, 289–90
Republican National Convention (1984), 76
Republicans, Republican Party, 22
agreement on issues among, 50–51
alliances with extremists, 5–6
Congress controlled by, 9, 289, 294, 298
“Contract with America” and, 297–98
and elections of 1982, 57
fund-raising of, 102–3, 112
Gingrich drawn to, 19
Gingrich’s impact on, 285, 297–99, 302–3, 305
growing support for Gingrich among, 123
House control achieved by, 1, 4, 7, 298
House control as goal of, 36, 51, 57, 243
idea-oriented, 20, 33
National Republican Congressional Committee, see National Republican Congressional Committee
1986 midterm elections and, 105
1990 midterm elections and, 175, 285
partisan politics of, 5–6, 9, 11
pressured to adopt right-wing positions, 76
Reagan’s success and, 49, 186
Senate controlled by, 47, 88, 102, 264, 298
in South, 23–24, 33, 48
Tea Party, 9–10, 303, 304, 305
Trump as logical conclusion of, 304–5
Watergate and, 27, 31
White on, 20
Wright as centerpiece of midterm campaigns of, 176–77, 179
Young Republicans, 20–21, 30
Reuss, Henry, 100
Rhodes, John, 39–41, 50
Richards, James, 216
Richardson, Bill, 173, 279–80
right-to-work laws, 31
Ringle, Ken, 218–30, 232–35
Roberts, Pat, 193
Roberts, Steve, 159
Robins, Claude, 17
Robinson, Tommy, 327n5
Rockefeller, Nelson, 22
Roe v. Wade, 182
Rollins, Ed, 76, 137, 175–77, 179, 234, 238–39, 243, 264
Romney, Mitt, 2, 304
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 8, 49, 51, 65, 151, 264
Roosevelt, Theodore, 20, 22, 33
Rosenthal, Abe, 132
Rostenkowski, Dan, 87, 159, 236, 294, 298, 327n5
Roush, Chester, 32
Roybal, Edward, 42
Rule 47, 255
Runkel, David, 263
Rust Belt, 48, 57
Sadat, Anwar, 110, 139
St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church, 21
St. Germain, Fernand “Freddie,” 143–44
St. Paul Pioneer Press, 232
Sandinistas, see Nicaragua
San Jose Mercury-News, 232
Santorum, Rick, 296
Saturday Night Live, 164
Savage, Gus, 265
savings and loan industry, 103–4, 112, 143, 155
deregulation, collapse, and bailout of, 130
Wright and, 122, 128–34, 138, 178–79, 202, 206, 215
Scaife, Richard, 50
scandals, see corruption, scandals, and ethics issues
Schlafly, Phyllis, 160
Schneider, Claudine, 186–87, 193
Schneider, Johanna, 138
schools and education, 76, 95, 159
Schroeder, Patricia, 169–70, 230
Seder, Deno, 34
Senate, U.S.:
Armed Services Committee, 177
Democratic majority in, 27, 31, 105, 159
public frustration with, 96–97
Republican majority in, 47, 88, 102, 264, 298
Sensenbrenner, Jim, 126
Sessions, Jeff, 2
700 Club, The, 113–14
sexual harassment, 223
Shales, Tom, 277
Shapard, Virginia, 34, 35
Sharp, Philip, 41, 245
Sheehy, Gail, 58
Shulz, George, 120, 121
Siegel, Mike, 172
Sikes, Bob, 41
Simon
, Paul, 153
Sinatra, Frank, 48
Six-Day War, 110
Skelton, Red, 17
Sleazewatch, 122
Small, Pamela, 219–37
Smith, Bob, 113
Smith, Howard “Judge,” 64, 96
Smith, Jeffrey, 140
Smith, Larry, 280
Smith, Richard, 128
Snowe, Olympia, 193, 231
Social Security, 54, 107, 327n5
Solarz, Stephen, 69
Solomon, Gerald, 185
South, 21–24
Democratic Party in, 21, 23, 25, 29, 33, 48, 58, 95, 115, 137, 162
Republican Party in, 23–24, 33, 48
South Africa, 39, 82
Southwest Texas State University, 202
Southwire, 216
Soviet Union, 30, 37, 51, 65, 79, 179, 241
Speaker of the House:
Gingrich elected as, 298
Gingrich steps down as, 1
House Rules Committee and, 99–100
majority leader and, 87, 101
O’Neill’s retirement from, 86, 105
post-Watergate reforms and, 99–100
speculation about Wright stepping down as, 234–35, 239–40
Wright elected as, 8, 9, 86–88, 105, 106, 221
Wright reelected as, 160
Wright’s resignation as, 7, 266–78, 279–84, 288, 293, 298, 300
Spiegel, Thomas, 238
Stark, Pete, 105
State Department, U.S., 120
states’ rights, 92
Stenholm, Charles, 261
Stevenson, Eugene, 233
Strachan, Heather, 288
Stratton, Hal, 154
Strauss, Robert, 121, 131
Students for a Democratic Society, 21
Supreme Court, U.S., 24, 27, 42, 45, 154, 195
Roe v. Wade, 182
Susman, Stephen, 217, 247–56
Swaggart, Jimmy, 210
Swinson, James, 231
Synar, Mike, 236
Talbot, David, 76
talk radio, 166–68, 171, 174, 203, 233–34
taxes, 24, 27, 78, 94, 156, 165, 271
Bush and, 214, 294, 296
cuts in, 33, 46, 50, 54, 59, 65, 297, 304
increases in, 54, 59, 76, 115, 214, 294, 296
IRS, 27, 263
Tea Bag Revolution, 166, 167, 171
Tea Party, 9–10, 303, 304, 305
Teamsters, 113
television, 62, 167, 188
Tetley, 171
Texas Christian University, 285, 298
Texas Observer, 94–95
Texas Oil and Gas Corporation, 111, 139, 140
Third Wave, The (Toffler), 59
This Week, 147
Thomas, Rich, 108
Thompson, Ernest, 90–91
Thompson, Frank, 208
Thornburgh, Richard, 263, 285
Time, 147–48, 169, 211, 233, 299
Toffler, Alvin, 47, 59
Toner, Robin, 208
Torricelli, Robert, 69, 217, 218, 232, 258–60, 280
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