on Reagan’s economic plan, 123–24, 129, 160–61, 169, 217–23, 338, 343–45
social, 178–79
on Social Security, 242, 243–57, 319
Bishop, Maurice, 268, 269, 274
“Black Book, The,” 42
Boggs, Hale, 59, 110–11
Boggs, Lindy, 111
Boland, Edward Patrick, 106, 108, 113, 263, 295, 347–48
Boland, Mary Egan, 348
Boland Amendment, first (1982), 263, 349–51
Boland Amendment, second (1984), 351
Bolling, Richard, 169, 194, 220
“Bolling Proposal,” 202–3
Bonanza (TV show), 90
Boston College, 29, 99, 108, 113, 340, 346, 356
Boston Globe, 30, 118, 129, 163, 280
Boston Navy Yard, 108–9
Brademas, John, 28
Brady, James, 70
Brezhnev, Leonid, 314
Bridge on the River Kwai, The (film), 195
Broder, David, 199
Brother Rat (film), 80, 83
Broussard, “Frogsy,” 96
Brown, Edmund G. “Pat,” 2–3, 91
Buckley, William, 358
budget:
deficit, 188–90, 192–93, 206, 208–9, 213, 215–17, 287
Democrats’ plan for, 117, 124, 160, 208–9
economy vs., 196, 217, 228–30
Reagan’s need for bipartisanship in, 194, 207–23
Reagan’s plan for balancing of, 43, 168, 172, 183, 213, 232–33
Budget Summit, 194–203, 205, 207
Burton, Phil, 209
Bush, George H. W., 3, 4, 32, 124, 128, 136, 159, 177, 300, 315, 322, 340, 364
Caddell, Patrick, 7, 10–11, 13–14, 187
Cagney, James, 80
Calabash, 278
Califano, Joe, 108
California:
Reagan’s journey to, 78–79
Reagan’s political career in, 2, 8, 33, 37, 77, 91, 188
Cambridge, Mass., 95, 102–3
Camp David, 170, 334
Cannon, Lou, 44, 280
Capitol Hill News Service, 22, 62
Capitol Hilton hotel, 291
Capra, Frank, 3
Carey, Hugh, 110, 331
Carter, Jimmy, xviii, 24, 35, 38, 46, 55, 58, 61, 69, 121, 150, 151, 159, 166, 167, 170, 201, 289, 349
attack on Reagan by, 11–12
best campaign speech of, 12–14
concession speech of, 15
downbeat image of, 7, 8
government reorganization plan of, 24
“malaise speech” of, 7, 47
1976 presidential victory of, 7
1980 presidential defeat of, xviii, 1–15
on Northern Ireland, 331
Reagan compared to, 28, 34
as scapegoat, 5–6, 9
sentiment against, 3, 4–5, 9, 14, 42, 43, 47, 52, 135, 357, 359
as sincere and earnest, 7, 8
Carter, Rosalynn, 2
Carter administration, 2, 35, 71
author in, 5, 6, 10, 14, 15, 24–25
O’Neill disliked by, 36
Casablanca (film), 82
Casey, William J., 4, 352
Catholics, 20, 21, 98, 105
in Northern Ireland, 329–35
CBS, 10, 12, 201, 209, 214, 238
CBS Evening News, 238
Central America, 262, 319, 349
Central American Peace Proposal, 352
Central Committee of the Communist Party, 314
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 348, 350, 351–52, 358
Challenger explosion, 335–37
Cheers (TV show), 164, 256–57
Cheney, Dick, 277–78
Chernenko, Konstantin, 315–16, 322
“Chez Raymond,” 155
Chicago, Ill., 9
Christians, in Lebanon, 263, 265, 271
Christian Science Monitor, 126
Churchill, Winston, 133, 182, 347, 364
“citizen-politician,” 87, 92, 231
City of Corpus Christi, USS, 204, 205, 212
civil liberties, 102
civil service reform, 24
Cleveland Convention Center, 8
Clinton, Bill, 89
cloakrooms, 154–55
CNN, 214
Code of the Secret Service (film), 68
Coelho, Tony, 56–59, 184–85
Colbert, Claudette, 269
Cold War:
end of, 364
last partisan debate on, 348
O’Neill on, 261
Reagan on, 28, 49, 260–61, 276, 309, 311, 346
Reagan’s strategy to end, 309–27, 363
Collins, Michael, 348
Colson, Charles, 108
Committee for Creative Non-Violence, 212
common good:
obstructionism vs., xvi, 216
as priority, xvii, 216, 221, 250–51, 267, 362, 366–67
communism:
downfall of, 364–65
and Hollywood, 87–89
Reagan’s hard line stand against, 90, 92, 259–61, 263, 350–51
threat of, 102, 346, 354–55
Conference of Studio Unions (CSU), 86–87
Congress, U.S.:
fiscal powers of, xvi, 28, 144
Reagan’s address on Soviet talks to, 325
Reagan’s first Joint Session address to, 53–54
Reagan’s political plan presented to, 47–48
televised, 294–95
war powers of, 265–66
winter break of, 245–46
World War II declared by, 82
Congressional News Service, 62–63
Congressional Record, 21–22, 296
Conn, Billy, 103
conservatives:
in Congress, 64
fiscal, 215
Reagan as, 4, 12, 33, 252, 368
southern Democrat, 39, 64, 124, 126, 129, 155–56, 161, 305–6
Constitution, U.S.:
framing of government in, xvi
proposed budget amendment to, 213, 232–33
Conte, Silvio, 108, 293
Contras (Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance Forces), U.S. aid to, 263, 349–57, 346, 360–61
Counselor (Sorensen), 149
Coyne, James K., III, 63
C-SPAN, 294–95
Cuba, 263, 268–69, 278
Cummings, Robert, 85
Curley, James Michael, 45
Curtiz, Michael, 82
Dark Victory (film), 80
Darman, Richard, 250, 256
Davis, Bette, 80
Davis, Loyal, 86, 221
Davis, Nancy, see Reagan, Nancy
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 89
Dean, James, 89
Death Valley Days (TV show), 34
Deaver, Michael, 32–33, 204–5, 280, 351
Defense Department, U.S., 351
Delahanty, Thomas, 70
Delaney, Steve, 214
Dellums, Ron, 277, 326
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), 55–56, 62–63, 184
Democratic Conservative Forum, 64, 220
Democratic National Committee, 55
Democratic National Convention (1968), 109–10
Democrats, Democratic Party:
attempt to limit 1980 losses by, 14
ethnic and geographical segments of, 20–21
in House cliques, 155–58
House control by, 32, 35–36, 39, 47, 52, 55
on nuclear weapons, 312–13, 317, 326
O’Neill’s roots in, 95
partisan propaganda of, 62–63
Reagan as, 86, 144
Reagan supported by, 4–6, 46, 63, 156, 300
Republican threat to, 28, 53, 63
Southern conservative, 39, 64, 124, 126, 129, 155–56, 161, 305–6
victorious midterm election campaign of, 227–41, 244
see also specific political figures
Dempsey, Jack, 72<
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De Niro, Robert, 69
Desperate Journey (film), 82, 85
Diehl, Leo, 59–60, 116, 139, 143, 153–54, 239, 305, 347
DiMaggio, Joe, 9
Dingell, John, 306–7
Dobrynin, Anatoly, 413
Dole, Bob, 207, 215–18, 247, 325
Donaldson, Sam, 138–39, 253, 282
Dornan, Bob, 163
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 86
Downey, Tom, 160
Duberstein, Ken, 121, 122, 227, 245, 248, 250, 256, 274
Early, Joe, 348
East Germany, 318–19, 364
economy, Reagan’s plan for, 27–28, 42–44, 47–48, 162, 163, 168, 188–90, 206, 338, 343–45
Budget Summit in, 194–203, 205
debate and vote on, 64–65, 119, 121–31, 133, 144–46, 159–63, 209
growing skepticism about, 171–73, 183, 194–203, 208, 215–16, 218–19
O’Neill’s attack strategy against, 117, 126–29, 142, 151, 159–60, 167, 177, 207–14
O’Neill’s cooperation in, 216–23, 338
protests and demonstrations against, 211–15
Reagan’s accountability for, 129–30, 172–73, 182, 191, 209, 216, 220, 223, 228
Stockman’s disclosures about, 175–77
TEFRA in, 215–23
televised presentation to Congress of, 122–25
upsurge in, 292
see also budget; specific elements
Eden, Anthony, 133
“Education of David Stockman, The” (Greider), 174
Education of Henry Adams, The (Adams), 17
Edwards, Don, 252
Einstein, Albert, 259
Eire Pub, 254
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 105, 261
elections, U.S.:
of 1904, 15
of 1928, 98–99
of 1960, 10, 107–8
of 1964, 90
of 1968, 19, 21
of 1974, 57, 156
of 1976, 3, 32, 35, 57, 156, 349
of 1982, 31, 56, 63, 64, 124, 146, 160, 162, 169, 182–83, 190, 209, 216, 224, 227–41, 244
elections, U.S., of 1980, 1–15, 32, 63, 69, 296
Carter campaign in, 1–12
debate in, 8
Election Day of, 1–2, 8, 10, 27, 36, 67, 151
Reagan campaign in, 2–12
elections, U.S., of 1984, 245, 257, 279, 282, 284, 285–307, 334, 352
debates in, 301–2
Democratic campaign in, 290–92, 299–304
Eliot, T.S., 364
El Salvador, 263, 349, 351
Eunice, Sister, 355–56
Eureka College, 79, 84
“evil empire,” 313, 322
Face the Nation, 153, 210–11
Falkland Islands, 208
Farrell, John Aloysius, 320
Federal Aviation Administration, 165
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 20, 70–71, 270
Federal Reserve, 167
Fenwick, Millicent, 229
Ferraro, Geraldine, 300, 303
Fields, W. C., 296
“$50,000 Question,” 160
First Motion Picture Unit, 82–83
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 97
FitzGerald, Garret, 333–34, 340
Fitzgerald, “Red,” 96
Flynn, Errol, 82
Foley, Tom, 112, 219, 228, 277–78
Ford, Gerald, 3, 4, 7, 32, 112, 135, 245, 343, 349
Ford’s Theatre, 74–75
Foreign Affairs Committee, 283
Fort Roach, 83
Foster, Jodie, 69
“Four Horsemen,” 331
France, 260, 299, 315
Franks, Martin, 55–58
Friedersdorf, Max, 36, 44–45, 52–53, 73, 122
Gable, Clark, 86
Gallup poll, 10
Gemayel, Bashir, assassination of, 264
General Electric Theater (TV show), 34, 89–90, 260, 287
Geneva, Switzerland, Reagan-Gorbachev summit in, 323–26, 363
George Washington University Hospital, 66, 71, 74
Gephardt, Dick, 306
Gergen, David, 32, 42
Germany, Nazi, 260
Germany, West, 314, 316
Gibbons, Sam, 111, 267
GI Bill, 288
Gibson, Charles, 284
Gingrich, Newt, 294–96
Gipp, George “the Gipper,” 4, 81, 136
Goldwater, Barry, 90, 134–35
Good Morning America (TV show), 299
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 308, 316–27, 334
and Ortega, 353
Reagan’s letter to, 320–22
Reagan’s summit meetings with, 317, 323–27, 363–64
Graham, Katharine, 34
Gray, William, 303
Great Britain, 260, 371
in Falklands, 208
in Grenada, 268
and Northern Ireland, 328, 331, 333–35
“Great Communicator,” 184, 192
Great Depression, 79
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 97
Great Society, 64
Greeley, Horace, 77
Greenspan, Alan, 167, 245–47, 250
Greenspan Commission, see National Commission on Social Security Reform
Gregg, Judd, 250
Greider, William, 174, 175
Grenada, 258, 268–70, 274–79, 342, 349
skepticism about, 276–78
Griffin, Bob, 347
Gromyko, Andrei, 316
Guatemala, 262
Guerra, Gabriel, 342
Gumbel, Bryant, 291
“gunboat diplomacy,” 262, 277, 346
“Gym Caucus,” 157–58
Gym Dinner, 158–59
Hall, Tony, 126
Hal Roach Studios, 83
Hamilton, Lee, 283
Hampton, Lionel, 226
Hardball (Matthews), 186, 369
Harris, Lou, 10
Hart, Gary, 290, 292
Hart, Peter, 187, 222
Hartman, Arthur, 315
Hartpence, Gary, see Hart, Gary
Harvard University, 97–98, 104, 109
Hatfield, Mark, 38
Hermannsson, Steingrímur, 327
Hertel, Dennis, 191
Hertzberg, Hendrik “Rick,” xviii, 10, 11–12, 13–14, 24
Hezbollah, 357–58
Hickam Air Force Base, 120
Hinckley, John, 66, 68–70, 115
Hiroshima bombing, 313
Hispanics, 344
Hitler, Adolf, 259
Hoffman, Nicholas von, 204
Holden, William, 86
Hollywood:
and communism, 87–89
Reagan’s career in, xvi, 2, 3, 4–5, 8, 31, 33, 38, 68, 77, 79–90, 98, 188, 260, 330
in war effort, 82–83
Holy Cross, 18, 19, 21, 57, 99, 108
homeless, advocacy for, 203–5, 212
Honduras, 262, 263, 354–55
Hoover, Herbert, 99
Hope, Bob, 340
“Horatio Alger Award,” 95
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), 87
House Foreign Affairs Committee, 20
House Intelligence Committee, 263
House of Representatives, U.S., xvi, 14, 28, 94
on Contra aid, 354–55, 360
Democratic cliques in, 155–58
“the floor” of, 154–58
gym of, 157–59
in midterm election, 224, 227
MX missile vote in, 317–20
Republican gains in, 28, 63
Republican losses in, 304
Rules Committee of, 108
Hume, John, 331, 334–35
Humphrey, Hubert, 57, 288
hunger strike, 204, 212
Hunt, Albert, 239–40
Hymel, Gary, 50, 59, 111, 116, 131, 150
immigration, 4–5, 6–7, 9, 344–45
Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986), 345
inflation, 187, 192, 201
Iowa, 79
Iran, in Contras conspiracy, 358–61
Iran-Contra scandal, 263, 349–61, 363
Iranian hostage crisis, 5, 6, 8–13, 38–39, 135, 238, 270, 357–58, 359
Iranian Revolutionary Guard, 359
Iraq-Iran war, 209
Irish-Catholics, 20, 21
“Irish curse,” 78
“Irish mafia,” 80–81
Irish Republican Army (IRA), 330, 333, 334
Israel, 288
Jewish immigration to, 314
and Lebanon, 208, 263, 265, 271, 282
Israeli war (1973), 170
Issues and Answers (TV show), 136
Jacobs, Andrew, 126
Japan, auto market dominance by, 9
“jobs” bill, 230–31, 255–57
Johnny Belinda (film), 83–84
Johnson, Lyndon, 107, 108–10, 247, 261
Johnson, Mike, 231
Jones, Jim, 193
Jordan, Hamilton, 13, 31, 36
“Junior Secret Service Club,” 68
junkets:
bipartisan, 343
controversial Australian, 118–21, 342
South American, 341–42
Kampelman, Max, 317–20
Karloff, Boris, 86
Kelley, Eleanor, 139, 158
Kelly, Eddie, 262
Kemp, Jack, 195, 218
Kennedy, Edward M., 8–9, 21, 47, 331, 340
Kennedy, John F., 10, 19–20, 29, 41, 53, 94, 103–6, 107, 108, 150, 178, 222, 247, 292, 309, 310, 337, 369
Kennedy, Joseph, 103–4
Kennedy, Robert F., 21, 105
Kennedy (Sorensen), 19
Khomeini, Ayatollah, 9, 358
“Khomeiniville,” 265
Khrushchev, Nikita, 314
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 348
Kings Row (film), 81–82, 85
Knute Rockne-All American (film), 4, 37, 80–81, 135
Kohl, Helmut, 316
Korean War, 288
Kovack, Kenny, 214
Last Hurrah, The (film), 45
Las Vegas, Nev., 89
Lebanon, 263–68, 270–83, 358, 359
Grenada as diversion from, 279
Israeli attack on, 208, 263
U.S. marines in, 258, 263–68, 270–73, 277, 279–83, 293
legislative assistants, 19–20
LeHand, Margaret “Missy,” 100–101
L’Enfant, Pierre, xiii, 371
Lew, Jack, 247, 284
Limbaugh, Rush, 186
Lincoln, Abraham, 74–75, 91
local politics, 29, 95, 99–102, 108
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 105
Long, Russell, 343–44
Lott, Trent, 295
Louis, Joe, 103
Love Is on the Air (film), 80
loyalty oath, 102, 109
M, 297
McAuliffe, Christa, 335–36
McCarthy, Eugene, 19, 57, 222
McCarthy, Mary, 115
McCarthy, Timothy, 70
McCormack, John, 105–6, 285
McDade, Joe, 119
McFarlane, Robert, 270–71, 358, 360
McGovern, George, 290
McGrory, Mary, 204, 222–23
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